North to Alaska
Day 3
Wednesday 13 of May 2015
Today was a 07 30 rise breakfast and on the coach at 09 00 for the ride to Butchart Gardens 30 minutes north of Victoria witch used to be a old lime stone quarry of 53 ha and when the stone ran out in 1908 Jennie Butchart the wife of Robert Pim Butchart had the idea to beautify the area by making it a garden with the skilful mixture of rare and exotic shrubs trees and flowers collectedby the Butcharts during their extensive world travels, continually expanded over the years to become world famous.
The Butcharts christened their estate "Benvenuto"- Italian for "Welcome". By the 1920s more than fifty thousand people visited each year. Today The Gardens, still owned and operated by the family.
Then in the evening six of us Neville, Dawn, Bert, Lynn Val and I went out for dinner at Nautical Nellies.
Len and Val
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