On Your Doorstep Issue 2 | Page 62

The #2 Favorite spot is Victoria Quay, this is on the other side of Port Alberni, another 5 min. drive or 30 min. walk from the old downtown. This is the most popular spot of tourists and locals as there are ample walking paths and picnic tables and benches. It’s busiest time is in the Fall when the Salmon are running up the inlet to the mouth of the River, you can safely sit on a bench at Victoria Quay at low tide and watch across the inlet the Black Bears and Eagles catch and scavenge for Salmon! 62 Also at Victoria Quay is one of the most impressive native carvings of the past when many Native fishermen would go out to the sea and hunt Whales. 63