Parksville, British Columbia
Vancouver Island
The island is 290 Miles long and over 60 miles wide, it's huge. An early explorer seeking a way to the Pacific and having found a route through the Rockies looked down to where Vancouver now stands. He saw the Straits of Georgia with the Island behind and assumed that he was looking at a lake and that the mainland continued as far as the eye could see. Exhausted and dispirited he turned around and headed east again. Had he gone down to the "la...