Today we did our final outing in Vancouver Island. We visited Hatley Park Gardens which is the garden of Royal Road's University in Victoris. It is an intact Edwardian Estate and a National Historic Site. The Park is a vast area surrounded by old growth forest. It has 3 themed gardens - the Italian Garden, the Japanese garden and the rose garden. The rose garden is witout roses because of the time of the year.
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| The wisteria bower in the Italian Garden. |
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| Peacock posing |
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| Hatley Castle |
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| 4 pictures of the Japanese Garden |
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These flowers are everywhere along the roadside and look very pretty against stone.
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When we had finished wandering through the gardens, a gardener told us that there was a nice walk in the forest across the road. It was called Charlie's Trail and meandered alongside Charlie's Creek, It was really nice particularly near the waterfall and rock garden. We discovered that the trail joins up with one of the island's longest trail, the Galloping Goose Trail which is 60km long. Having already spent about an hour on Charlie's Trail we decided that Galloping Goose was not for us.
Tomorrow is the big clean up in order to leave everything spick and span for Ted and Nancy. It is unlikely that I will put up any new posts until we are settled in our next home exchange in Grimsby (near Toronto and Niagara Falls).
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