Before I get to the gardens and castles there are a couple of pictures I'd like to share of Victoria.
The Empress Hotel (we did not go inside)


Parliment building during the day.


And at night. They are blurring. I was far away from it.



I always tried to get pictures of any animals I could, so I could not walk past these horses again without getting a picture.


These statues were all around the town. We had something similar in Tahoe but they were bears all dressed up differently. This was my favorite statue in Victoria.


Now we're off to the castles!
The first one is Craigdarroch. It was built in 1857 and was owned by Robert Dunsmuir.








Continued in next post.............