Canada & Alaska - 2014

Day 17: Victoria Fri Jul 04, 2014

Another early start as we visit The Butchart Gardens and enjoy breakfast in the original Butchart residence. After breakfast we head into the gardens to experience this wonderful landscape before the crowds arrive. We grab a quick lunch before heading to the harbour for our whale watching cruise. The heads out into the protected waters of Haro Strait and the Strait of Juan de Fuca. We have many photo opportunities with a pod of killer whales.


Dawn over Victoria harbour	The Butchart Gardens	The breakfast room	The breakfast garden	One of the many garen displays	Debbie with the climbing pea	The climbing pea

Debbie and Chris	The Sunken Garden	Mal in the Rose garden	Chris and Ron in the Rose Garden	The Rose Garden	A red rose	Mal and Debbie in the Rose Garden

A mossy glade	The Japanese Garden	A cedar tree	Mal at work	More of the mossy glade	A decorative waterfall	Debbie amongst the garden

Lavender	Debbie in the Italian Garden	A hyderange	A fuscia	A fuscia pot	Geraniums	A seal in Victoria Harbour

Mal and Chris ready to watch whales	Helicopter landing in Victoria	Debbie braced for the breeze	Ron looking forward to whales	Mountains through the clouds	Debbie feeling cold	A yacht in Georgia Strait

A lighthouse in the strait	Another view of the yacht	Debbie is warmer	A breaching Orca!	Orca!	Another one, or same one	This one is male

Two of them	Some tail banging	More tail banging	Debbie and Chris feeling the cold	Mal looking pleased	Chris and Debbie finding a warmer nook	Linda, Lily (at back) and Jim in the Zodiac

Colin and Linda in the Zodiac