Vancouver Island Day 2
Today is Labor day and a lot of places are closed. Once we realized the garden is open, we took advantage of that and book a afternoon tea and visit with them.
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| Butchart Gardens! |
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| Driving to the garden |
It easily takes 1.5 hours to leisurely walk through the gardens.
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Around the rose garden area
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Beautiful tree at the garden
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Dragon statue
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| Main house |
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| Totem poles in the garden |
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| Layers of flowers in the sunken garden |
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| Concert venue |
What's really interesting is they are still privately owned
150 years ago the wife had a vision to make a quarry mine into a garden and it became the sunken garden.
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| The quarry mine that becomes the sunken garden |
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| The fountains in the sunken garden |
They cultivated a Japanese garden too
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Japanese garden
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What's amazing for me is the vision and the fact that they continued through the multiple generations to maintain the garden. And at Victoria, they are the ones that made and maintain the flower baskets in Victoria. 1200 baskets to be watered from midnight to 6am from spring to summer!
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| Can you spot Bill in the top picture? |
Had high tea at the restaurant with a priceless view
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| Doing the sparkling wine with the afternoon tea |
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| Yum sandwiches, pastries and good sparkling wine too |
After the garden, we went to Sea Cider for more cider tasting.
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| View from Sea Cider |
This place is easily the best cider place that we had. We like everything except 2 that has the wild yeast so the taste is quite strong.
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| Tasting 12 ciders at Sea cider |
After that we met some friends in Sidney for a drink before heading back to the campground
We got a rotisserie chicken with some Caesar salad for dinner.
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Rotisserie chicken with Cesar salad for dinner
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