A reprise of the 2020 Fall Islander.  We've updated the route in Langford to use the new E&N Trail section along upper Atkins Road.

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From 2022--A new route.  About as flat as we can make it.  On trail or quiet road for 90% of it.  Gravel stretches (about 90km) rideable on any bike.  Explore the old rail beds of Victoria--the Lochside Trail, once the Canadian Northern Pacific which crossed the (now) airport to Patricia Bay, and a little piece of the Victoria & Sidney line which ended in Sidney (and incidentally ran along what is now Veyaness (V&S) Road); the Esquimalt & Nanaimo (E&N), originally built by Robert Dunsmuir to serve the coal mines in Wellington (Nanaimo), and then sold to CPR; the Galloping Goose, part of the CN Railway. The Kinsol Trestle visited on the Cowichan Valley 200 was also part of this line as it ran to Lake Cowichan--it never made it all the way to Port Alberni; and finally, the Interurban trail on the old BC Electric rail line that went along Interurban Ave and Wallace Drive, and then through the (now) Victoria Airport, along Wilson Rd (on our route) and then Tatlow Rd to Deep Cove.