Butchart Gardens

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My first two images were captured

in the Butterfly House…

 

…at the Melbourne Zoo.

The balance of this post was captured…

…in the Butterfly Gardens…

 

…which is loated near the Butchart Gardens…

…on Vancouver Island…

…near Victoria (British Columia).

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from Vancouver

Girl in a Wetsuit

and not

Cophenagen’s

Little Mermaid

Inside Butchart Gardens

Victoria

Vancouver Island

British Columbia

In Vancouver,

we discovered

The Laughing Giants

of Stanley Park

 

Some of the Chemainus…

…Murals on Vancouver  Island.

Vancouver’s Grouse Mountain produced…

…these wood carvings…

…still on a woody theme the restaurant atop

Grouse Mountain also had this piece on display.

In downtown Victoria (BC)

is this living statue titled

Orca and Calf.

Unfortunately the calf is on the other side

of its mother and barely visible.

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Lush greens…

 

…of Canada’s…

…Butchart Gardens…

…which are…

…located on…

 

…British Columbia’s

Vancouver Island…

 

…about a twenty-minute…

 

…bus trip out…

…of the City of Victoria.

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Perhaps not as dark as it could be.

A better shade for this week

 

Topiary from Vienna’s

Schonbrunn Palace…

…and Canada’s

Butchart Gardens.

 

 

 

Closer to home is the

Otway Rain Forest…

 

Still part of the Otway Forest,

I included this image because this morning

is the second of two foggy mornings this week.

 

Love the ferns

Part of the forest near Beech Forest township

on the edge of the Otway Ranges

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Murano in the Rain

 

Umbrellas required undercover during

a torrential Pompeii downpour.

 

Butchart Gardens

Vancouver Island

Canada

 

 

A tender moment in

Vancouver

 

Manly Beach

Sydney

 

A lone fisherman

Geelong

 

Oh! What a feeling!

Two candid images cropped

and stitched together

Stanley Park

Vancouver

Canada

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explore

travel through (an unfamiliar area)
in order to learn about it.

After spending three months in Canada in 1976,

I have often lamented the fact that I did not…

…leave time to visit the Butchart Gardens.

So, when planning our 2018 visit, to Canada…

 

…we decided to spend a few days in Victoria (BC)

to recover from our 14-hour non-stop flight

across the Pacific…

…but mainly to visit, in our own time,

the Butchart Gardens and any other

attractions Victoria had to offer.

That was one of the best decisions we made.

We were able to wander along the many paths

that comprise the gardens at our own pace…

…exploring at our leisure.

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