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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.

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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….