Day 5

Today we took the ferry to Vancouver Island in Canada. We landed at Sydney and drove around there a little bit. Then we headed for Victoria. We found a parking place and got out the chair and headed for an underwater aquarium. We then walked around the harbor and bought a few cool souvenirs.

We ate the sandwiches we had made and headed to check into our motel. Not the best, but the cheapest, place to stay. We rested for a few minutes and headed for Butchart Gardens. It looked like rain so we took our jackets and an umbrella. We also took the chair, but were hoping they would have motorized wheel chairs to rent as there are lots of major hills. We didn’t see anywhere to rent them so we ventured out. It was gorgeous. It was originally a hole left from digging out limestone so you begin by looking down into a massive garden. We spent hours there and really enjoyed the beauty. It started raining lightly, but we had our rain jackets so we were fine. We ate some more chowder and a salmon salad and went back to view the gardens some more. We did some shopping. I was dead tired by the time we got out of there. We had been there four hours. We headed back to our room and immediately to bed.