Our last port visit was to the very pretty Victoria the capital of British Columbia. Sadly this was were I discovered that my raincoat was not waterproof…yep hot damn! Ah but an opportunity to buy a new jumper 😀.

So as the title of this post suggests Victoria is a city of beautiful gardens that attracts lots of honeymooners and retirees. The ship didn’t dock until about 5.30 pm and we had limited daylight but I was able to snap some shots of Fisherman’s Wharf on our walk into town. Aren’t these places gorgeous they are a mixture of businesses, homes and bed and breakfasts.

And I managed a night time and cloudy day time photo of Parliament House. Great building would love to go inside one day.

As well as getting wet we took a night time bus tour which was kind of hilarious… the commentary was good (that’s where I got my fab tagline). The windows kept fogging up lots of heavy breathing obviously and because of the foggy windows, the rain and the fact that is was dark we couldn’t see much at all. We don’t do many of the hop on hop off buses preferring walking or self directed tours but this kept me and my new Victoria jumper out of the rain so was money well spent. The alternative was the local Maccas using their wifi and getting to the know the locals.

I leave you with the second best bit of information for the night and that was that often the seaplanes can’t take off because there is a whale on the runway – classic.