On your way to the Oak Bay Marina, you will pass Glenlyon-Norfolk school. This seafront building was once the residential home of famous British architect Francis Rattenbury.
His former home is located at 1701 Beach Drive. Rattenbury designed many well known buildings in Victoria including the Empress Hotel and the Parliament Buildings.
Rattenbury named his home "lechinihl", which means "a place where good things happened". He built it in 1898 for his first wife and two children. The original cost was $3,700. The house became a private school in 1929 and the home of Glenlyon-Norfolk's junior boys' campus.
Along Beach Drive you’ll come to Oak Bay
Marina with a wonderful restaurant (including a great Sushi Bar) and café facilities
-- (and watch the seals playing outside), as well as Salmon fishing and sailing
charters. The Oak Bay Beach Hotel is just a short 5-minute walk farther along
Beach Drive. You might even talk to Joel about booking a wonderful adventure
tour, which the Oak Bay Beach Hotel organizes, or go Whale Watching (in Season) or
simply enjoy a pint and a pub-style meal at "The Snug".
