on a city bus. These 55 acres of gardens are a national historic site. It was built in a limestone quarry and the work started in 1904. The gardens include a working old-fashioned carousel.
In the afternoon we went to the Abkhazi Garden. Once a private garden, it was built by an English woman and an exiled Georgan Prince whose initial romance was interrupted by World War II. The woman spent the war in a Japanese internment camp in China and the Prince in a German internment camp. They married after the war, moved to Victoria and developed the garden. Today it is operated by Land Conservancy of British Columbia. We also had high tea as part of our visit.
