Friday, September 10, 2010

Vancouver Island

Wednesday was a awesome day to visit Vancouver Island. The day was warm and sunny and started with a 90 minute ferry ride from Port Angles.









Butchart Gardens was the first stop on the visit. It's situated just a few miles North of Victoria and sports 55 acres of fantastic gardens.















This is just a sample of the wonderful scenes found in the garden. It's in a area called the sunken garden which was a former gravel pit.























The Dahlia garden was by far the favorite. The flowers were as big as dinner plates with spectacular colors.



















Gail found a golden frog in the garden and since she already has her "prince charming" she decided the kiss would get her some gold.
So.... she gave it a try....... no gold yet.... we're still waiting and hoping.



















After a afternoon of touring and walking downtown Victoria we headed home and were presented with a great sunset view of Victoria.


So long to Canada after a great day.

























Do we look tired? Nope.... the 90 minute ferry ride home was great..... rain, an awesome sunset, lightening, more rain and finally US soil again.
What a day. Bed felt really really good.

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