Olympic Peninsula WA

Bc ferries has a website for making a reservation so getting on the ferry is much easier, but I would suggest if you do not want to make a reservation just don’t travel on the weekend. There are BC ferries that leave from a place called horseshoe bay and they go to landing just outside of the small city of Nanaimo. From naniamo up the island is most of the camping. I’m so used to living here and venturing i’m so used to living here and venturing around our area that places like Victoria Don’t impress me anymore as I just see it as another city. I will try to look at it from the perspective of a visitor not use.don’t impress me anymore as I just see it as another city. I will try to look at it from the perspective of a visitor never seeing our west coast. Here’s some tips:

Victoria is not for camping with rvs. but offers itself as a tourist town where USA cruise ships land on the way to Alaska. It’s well set up for walking and cycling,exploring shops and has a British influence in pubs and stone buildings. You can find camping outside of the city and bus systems are really good at getting into it.

From Victoria to port Renfrew, there are wonderful beaches with some provincial parks for camping. Provincial parks, and British Columbia can be booked on their website for months in advance of arrival.

For simple way of finding camping use Google Maps. Zoom. In on the area you an Zoom. In on the area you are interested. and type in the search area the word camping.

With out listing them here from Nanaimo up the island there is tons of camping. I would recommend Tofino ( famous for surfing) if you have never seen at West Coast beach as it also travels through a place called Cathedral Grove that has a display of large West Coast trees to walk through. 

Another way to the lower part of the island is the ferry from tswasssen to Swartz bay. BC ferries has been at this a long time and part of the British Columbia highway system. They are extremely well set up and he will have no problems figuring it out. Ferries leave every one and a half hours. often I don’t book a reservation and just show up and I have no problem waiting a little bit to get on the next one. A big recommendation is do not travel on a long weekend as families are always trying to reunite, and the system gets extremely busy.

RV travel is very common and of course nearly all RV's have propane tanks. For the most part the rule is that you need to have all propane appliances turned off so there is no active flame burning...(in the event they had some kind of fuel leak or escaping fumes inside ferry where vehicles are parked.) I have never heard of a ferry where the propane tank itself was not allowed on board.