Butchart Gardens

Stroll around fifty beautiful acres of
awesome gardens. Visit their site for
more details.

Beacon Hill Park

Located at Douglas Street and the ocean (Dallas Road) 200 wonderful acres with flowers, petting zoo, ponds, a band shell, putting green, and all topped off with a hilltop lover's lane with a great view.  What more could you ask for!  It's all free too!

Check out my panoramic digital photos
taken in and around Beacon Hill park.

The old beacon house.  Click for 800x600 image.

Check out the awesome website for the Legislative Buildings.  There's a terrific  virtual tour you can wander the magnificent halls and rooms and learn a lot while you're doing it too!

Fort Street - Antique Row

On Fort Street between Blanshard and Cook Streets you will find dozens of antique shops within a couple of blocks.  Great architecture throughout the neighborhood. The shops come in all manner and variety of size and specialty. Some will take considerable time to go through as they're quite large. A couple of them really have great prices on some things too.

I drove by it totally by accident one day and was intrigued about who's house was behind such a fancy wall. The gardens are open to the public, so go ahead and stop by to enjoy the formal rose garden and beautiful surroundings. The entire neighborhood is quite fun to drive around in and enjoy the great architecture.

Located at 207 Government Street.  Click the picture of the house for more details.

Click to visit web page

There are quite a few great mountain climbs around Victoria and other places with great vantage points for wonderful views and photography.

You can see clear to the sea on more than one side on the ones I've already been up.  So keep an eye out for new pictures all the time as I'll be continuously posting more and more pictures from around town, mountain climbs and coastal hikes, including sweeping panoramic photographs on my photography site.