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MV Coho ferry from Port Angeles. This 1959 boat was spic and span tidy and clean. |
We are not so sure that our three boys picked up on the charm of Victoria, but for adults what a great visit it was. Restaurants, shops, museums, galleries, gardens and parks, all in a tight pedestrian friendly urban core surrounding Victoria Harbor. The good looking residents are unfailingly friendly and love tourists.
Fifteen miles north of Victoria sits The Butchart Gardens. The Butchart family made their fortune in the cement business nearly 100 years ago and appears to have spent every dime of it turning their quarry and surrounding area into 56 acres of gardener's fantasy. You can grown anything in Victora - Palms, orchids, sequoias, roses - it is a plant's paradise.
For a great week rent a car in Seattle and travel clockwise:
- Olympic National Park with overnight in Sequim, WA
- Ferry from Port Angeles WA to Victoria BC, two nights in Victoria
- Vist Butchart Gardens on short drive north from Victoria to catch the Vancouver Ferry
- Two nights in Vancouver
- Drive back to Seattle for a two night stay.
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| Sunken Garden at Butchart |
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| Church and State Winery outside of Victoria. Beautiful winery, rough wines! |
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| Huge amount of driftwood on Olympic Beach |
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| Ten mile coastal hike at Olympic National Park included 6 miles of boardwalk. |
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| 5450 feet in Olympic National Park. Plan was to ride downhill all the way to the coast - 17 miles - but it was snowing and raining above 2,500 feet. |
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| Giant spruce in Olympic National Park |
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