BC Trip, Day 6-7 - Pictures!!

Ok, this is the last batch of pictures. We took a whole bunch whale watching, but I'm only posting the good ones... most of them are of the fins in the water, but you can't see much of the whales... oh well, what can you do? Remember that the synopsis of the trip is after all the pictures, so please feel free to scroll down and read... we had a great time there, and a just-as-good time sharing our adventure. I hope you enjoy the pictures as much as we had taking them.

This is Chris the Omelette Chef. Very very nice guy! He made a restaurant suggestion, though we were unable to take him up on it.

A shot of the Hotel Dining room. The buffet part was behind that grid in the back.

The view from our hotel room window.

The ship that took us whale watching.

Up on that block, you see a tiny person... he is the lookout. He has a 10-15 mile telescope that can spot the whales and marine-life on the water. He then radio's that info to the boats in the surrounding area so they know where to go.

A view from the boat.

This is the best pic we have of a whale. After doing some searching online, Rick was able to identify him as Hugo, in L pod.
This whale is doing a "breach" where they jump up and out of the water. Cool huh?

This one was so close to the boat it was almost like we could reach out and touch it. The entire experience was amazing.

This is a lighthouse. Rick wanted to get one closer up, but this is the best one - the mountains and the clouds in the background make the picture itself breath-taking.

Another mural along the shore.

Another view of Shanty-town

A Great Blue Heron on the pier.

This is us and Kyle, the bellman who was so amazing. The picture was taken by Sean, one of his co-workers.

Home sweet home. Taken from the plane upon approach back to Toronto. Boy was this a great trip.

BC Trip, Day 5 - Pictures!! (Part 2)

These are more pictures from Buschart Gardens. Again, comments will come as I see them

These are actually bushes created in the designs seen. We also got a picture of a tiger bush like this, but it was blurry so I didn't post it.

This is called a "Monkey Puzzle Tree". All day the day before when we were in Goldstream Park with Michele & Bill, she wanted to show us one. Low and behold, we found one on our own! It's cool... it looks like a cross between a pine tree and a palm tree.

I just love the bright and vibrant colour of red shown here.

My favourite picture of the day... I actually saw this frog sitting in the flower, just as it is there. We have a picture before this... and this picture was after I actually touched it. It moved. We snapped another one to prove it was alive. This is like the coolest picture ever!

This one was actually snapped through a hole in the bushes. No, I'm not kidding. I think they call it Buschart Harbour. But there is a head-sized hole in the bushes looking out onto this, so Rick stuck the camera through and took the picture. Not bad, eh?

And this is us, nicely sun-kissed, at dinner that night with Michele (who nicely took the picture from across the table).

BC Trip, Day 5 - Pictures!! (Part 1)

This is us at the breakfast table with Larissa on her last day of serving us

An awesome picture of the harbour, taken from the double-decker bus we went on to tour the Butterly Gardens and Buschart Gardens.

These carriages are for hire, to tour Victoria and the park.

Self Explanitory ;)

This butterly was hard to catch a picture of. It was always closed. I was lucky to catch it. Rick focused on the wings and we got it to open. In the split second it was open, he snapped the picture. Isn't that a gorgeous colour??

This and all pictures below (until specified) are from Buschart. Comments will appear is I decide to do them *Grin*