Your Island News for Tuesday, October 13

The last cruise ship doesn't pull into port at Ogden Point until October 18th, but the season has already broken records.

By the calendar, it's already been the longest cruise season ever, with the most vessels visiting Victoria.

But there's another milestone that was reached today.

We've officially hit one million passengers for the season, and Jordan Cunningham was there to greet them.

There might not be a friendlier place to pull into port in the whole world.

You'd think our smiling and waving muscles would get tired, but we were born for this.

Victoria, by reputation, is unfailingly and flailingly welcome.

Guests overwhelmingly like the friendliness, the cleanliness, and the welcoming nature of Victorians.

Hi, friends! The cruise industry in 2026, by the numbers, was significant.

332 ships arrived in port.

That's a record.

And back in April, we knew this was going to be big.

Should we not be smashing a bottle of champagne? I guess that is a tradition.

But the champagne was kept on ice until today.

And let's preface this by saying every passenger aboard every ship that comes in is unique.

But with all due respect to this guy and that lady and the thousands of other disembarkers from the Norwegian encore, they're no Jerry and Gary.

Gary and Jerry, like Chip and Dale, but cuter.

A cute couple from California who were told they were the millionth passenger to arrive in Victoria in 2026.

Things like this, you always hope, go to the right people.

That's them.

I was just grateful there were 999,999 other people here prior to us so that we could enjoy this.

Other passengers like Carrie and Mike from Washington State didn't mind narrowly missing history.

Did you get

anything for that? Probably not.

Jerry and Gary are retired.

The last cruise ship doesn't pull into port at Ogden Point until October 18th, but the season has already broken records.

By the calendar, it's already been the longest cruise season ever, with the most vessels visiting Victoria.

But there's another milestone that was reached today.

We've officially hit one million passengers for the season, and Jordan Cunningham was there to greet them.

There might not be a friendlier place to pull into port in the whole world.

You'd think our smiling and waving muscles would get tired, but we were born for this.

Victoria, by reputation, is unfailingly and flailingly welcome.

Guests overwhelmingly like the friendliness, the cleanliness, and the welcoming nature of Victorians.

Hi, friends! The cruise industry in 2026, by the numbers, was significant.

332 ships arrived in port.

That's a record.

And back in April, we knew this was going to be big.

Should we not be smashing a bottle of champagne? I guess that is a tradition.

But the champagne was kept on ice until today.

And let's preface this by saying every passenger aboard every ship that comes in is unique.

But with all due respect to this guy and that lady and the thousands of other disembarkers from the Norwegian encore, they're no Jerry and Gary.

Gary and Jerry, like Chip and Dale, but cuter.

A cute couple from California who were told they were the millionth passenger to arrive in Victoria in 2026.

Things like this, you always hope, go to the right people.

That's them.

I was just grateful there were 999,999 other people here prior to us so that we could enjoy this.

Other passengers like Carrie and Mike from Washington State didn't mind narrowly missing history.

Did you get

anything for that? Probably not.

Jerry and Gary are retired.