Victoria
We do an evening tour of the
Butterfly house and the Butchert gardens. Our guide entertains us with some
amusing and colorful stories.
The butterfly house contains
butterflies, birds, animals and fish. Mainly tropical and sub-tropical.
We arrive at the Butchert
gardens in the dark. Lights illuminate the paths. Our guide gives us a map and
tells us to back at the bus at a certain time. We then decide to get lost. As
we wander up and down the paths we continuing bump into our group. They all get
in first and ask us which way to go.
After a while we give up
peering at the stunning gardens and concentrate on being back in the bus on
time.
Back on the bus the guide
entertains us again with a story about the founders of this garden. They were
in Europe booked on a return boat trip. They received a wire telling them an
eagle had killed their European finches. They made a detour to Germany to get
some more European finches and missed their boat back to North America. The
boat was called the Titanic. When they eventually returned to Victoria they
devoted themselves to building these incredible gardens.
These stunning gardens owe
their existence to two people missing a boat.
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