Canada

November 4, 2014 Canada

Butchart Gardens : Podcast 17

Episode 17 of the All Around the West Podcast is now ready. Click the link below to listen. In this podcast, Sue and I talk about our fun trip to the world famous Butchart Gardens on Vancouver Island north of Victoria, British Columbia. We talk about what we saw in our visit to the Gardens, how we got there and some of the highlights of the day. The Butchart Gardens are 110 years old and attract over a million visitors every year. If you are a gardener, you’ll want to make sure that you put visiting the Butchart Gardens on your bucket list.

…

July 16, 2014 Canada

Waterton Lakes National Park

Last summer, we had the opportunity to visit a beautiful park, Waterton Lakes National Park in Alberta, Canada. Oh. my. goodness. It was gorgeous. We were staying in Cardston, but made several day trips over to the Waterton area. The Waterton lakes are gorgeous, the Waterton Town is nice, and the park is full of things to do, places to go, and things to see….

June 18, 2014 Canada

Waterton Lakes National Park : Podcast 11

Episode 11 of the All Around The West Podcast is now ready! In this episode, Sue and I talk about a great visit that we had in Waterton Lakes National Park in Alberta, Canada. While this goes outside our normal focus of the western United States, it is still in the west and occasionally when we visit wonderful places in Canada we are still going to share them with you. Waterton Lakes National Park is certainly one of those fabulous places.

…

June 13, 2014 Canada

Butchart Gardens : Northwest Trip Day 8

For day 8 on our northwest trip, we planned a trip across the Juan de Fuca Strait to Victoria, British Columbia and then on up to the Butchart Gardens. These gardens are world famous and Sue has wanted to see them for a long time, so this was a golden opportunity to us to do just that. I spent some time researching the easiest way for us to do that from Port Angeles, and it turned out to be pretty easy, although it did take a full day and required a ferry ride across the straits to Victoria, B.C, and then a bus ride to the gardens. Here’s what we did….