Front row on the top of a doubledecker tour bus to the Butchart Gardens
The Butchart Gardens is seriously amazing. We took pictures but you really just have to go because like always, pictures can't do it justice.
Tony pointed out this fountain and we had to show it to the kids.
Ewww! Just wrong! Bwahaha!
The Sunken garden. You go up a little pathway and when you turn and get your first view, it takes your breath away. It is so beautiful!
Mrs. Butchart was taking part of the quarry they ran and making it into a garden. The Sunken garden was part of the unused quarry. She used this metal chair to plant ivy in all of the cracks of the stone to beautify it.
A secret garden door!
The Japanese garden was the first one they made.
This Japanese maple is the first non-native plant in their garden.
An inlet where the boats would deliver things.
A peekaboo place to the inlet.
The Italian garden
I love little doorways that remind us of secret gardens.
Back in the real world we walked to fisherman's wharf
Then we went through customs again and boarded the clipper to head back.
30 knots!
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