Welcome to BC Day Tours

Our Welcome Tours, BC Day Tours and Companion Tours are in place for June 2012. We are very excited to present to you a glimpse of our past, a witness to our present and an excited anticipation for our future. We look forward to welcoming each of you to the West Coast of Canada and hope that you will be enriched by the amazing diversity of this great country.

June 12 2012

#1 City Tour 1 pm - 5 pm

Best highlights of Victoria;

explore downtown

shopping, quaint

coffeehouses an fabulous

brew pubs, historical

Chinatown and always

sensational ocean and

mountain views.

Cost: $56.00

Level 2 walk

#2 Butchart Gardens Historic World Class Gardens –thousands of bulbs and flowering trees and shrubs –alive with the scents and coloursof spring.Cost: $78.40

Optional High Tea - Afternoon Tea – our grandest hour!As the tea is optional, it is added to our tour cost.$40.00 + HST 4.80=$44.80 Tour and Tea $133.20

Level 2 – level 3 walk wheelchair access

Tours for June 13 & 14 2012

All costs included in registration. All tours are 9am to evening

Lunch on tour and Dinner at Sooke followed by entertainment

All tours leave from Mary Winspear Centre.Tours #1-5 Level 2 walk Tours #6-7 Level 3 walk

#1 Butterflies,Flowers & Fabric

3000 exotic butterflies fluttering amongst exotic flora; EurosaFarm – thousands of greenhouse flowers: Satin Moon – everything for quilters, beaders and sewers. Fabrics galore.

#2 Chemainus Village and Ladysmith

Chemainus – global artists decorated this coastal mill town with historic murals painted on town buildings –lots of boutiques and scrumptious luncheons. Ladysmith –picturesque “turn of the century” buildings in “One of the Ten Prettiest Towns in Canada”.Level 2 Activity

#3 Day of Decadence

A visit to Cowichan Bay the #1 Slow Food town in the World. The Slow Food international movement presents an alternative to fast food and strives to preserve traditional and regional cuisine and encourages the farming of plants, seeds and livestock characteristic of the local ecosystem. Enjoy wine, cheese and a seasonal west coast lunch. Trip to an organic chocolate farm!Level 2 Activity

#4 Historical Tour

Victoria City Tour

Historically present. View The World’s Tallest Totem, panoramic ocean views, affluent residential areas and tell-tale stories of local ghosts. Enjoy a Legislature guided tour and stroll through the Fairmont Empress Hotel. Visit our World Class Royal BC Museum. Level 2 Activity

#5 Spring Garden TourVictoria’s finest gardens – a

private tour. Also, visit Abkhazi Gardens where unique and modern blend together in design combining Californian and Chinese Gardens. A place of meditation and a journey in time – tea and scones in the Teahouse complete the visit. Continue to Glendale Gardens – a winter woodland and the Pacific Horticultural College with 30 demo gardens.

Level 2 Activity

#6 Victoria’s Hidden HistoryVictoria’s favouritehistorian, John Adams, leads us to historic cemeteries including the Chinese cemetery, Point Ellice House (Victoriana displays) and Government House. Includes a Chinatown Walking tour and Dim Sum lunch.

Level 3 Activity more walking, easy, periods of standing.

#7 Castles, Castle, LighthouseCraigdarroch Castle where the coal baron, railway developer and politician Robert Dunsmuir lived – some of the finest leaded glass in North America. Hatley Castle, stately home of James Dunsmuir, industrialist, politician and 14th

Premier of BC. Fort Rodd – 1890 coastal artillery Fort and West Coast Oldest Lighthouse.

Level 3 Activity 87 Stairs at Craigdarroch, walking at Hatley and Fort Rodd.

#1 Oh Canada! June 14 2012 10 am – 4 pm

BC Aviation Museum,

Naval Museum – grub at the mess hall. Local brew stop.

Cost: $100.80

Level 2 activity

Walking, periods of standing

#2 Natures BestJune 15 2012 10am-4pm

Visit local estate farms for sips of wine, cider and gin and enjoy local bounty for lunch –showcases an old-growth temperate rain forest.

Cost: $112.00

Level 3 activity – walking, uneven ground, periods of standing.

#3 Whale WatchingJune 16 2012 3 hrs

Highest percentage of Orca sightings off Sidney town

View Seal and Sea Lion colonies Fabulous marine park scenery.

Cost: $112.00

Level 1 Activity- easy, must be able to enter boat and walk dock area