A few more pictures from Victoria, and Mount Vernon Thousand Trails Campground

I mentioned on the video that I posted that we had Afternoon Tea at Butchart Gardens. I thought you might enjoy some additional pictures from that...

The menu - The food items....

The tea choices. I was tempted to get my favorite Earl Grey, but decided to try Lemongrass & Ginger instead. It was delicious. Dwayne got the 100th Anniversary because it said that it had gunpowder. The waiter assured us that it was not real gunpowder, but rather something that popped when the hot water hit it with small explosions like gunpowder. We were looking forward to seeing that, but I guess they enjoyed it back in the kitchen because the tea was already steeping in the pot when he brought it out.

 

I forgot to take a picture before we ate the scones - you can pretend that there are scones and containers with butter and jam on the top. The bottom shelf were various "sandwich" type of offerings, and the middle were sweets. It was all delicious!

When we got to the ferry parking lot, we had a bit of time to wait. I had noticed that there were some bumper-pull trailers in the lot next to where we were parked and I wondered if it was a place where camping was allowed. A little while later, I noticed that they were putting trailers onto a barge that had come in...

At this point, I started watching - it looked to me like they were putting that trailer awfully close to the edge...

The truck disconnected and went back up on shore...

... got another one and started backing it down... (we were behind a chain link fence with barbed wire at the top)...

It had a rather narrow ramp that the truck backed the trailer down onto...

The guiders watched very carefully as the back of the trailer got very close to the ramp...

Then the front of the trailer got very close to the ramp...

... he continued with putting the trailer on...

This one went in front of the one he had put on previously...

They got it neatly backed in there, and then disconnected. We didn't get to watch anymore as the announcement to be in our cars ready to board the ferry came over the loud speaker. We think these were all new units - they were all Winnebagos. Maybe on their way to one of the other islands... but we weren't sure.

Sunset off the ferry

On Wednesday, we packed up Miss Doozie and drove a short distance to the Mount Vernon Thousand Trails Campground.

On Thursday, friends John and Joan came over to visit. We met them in Palm Springs Thousand Trails in the winter, and saw them again in Quartzsite. They live about 1.5 hours away from this campground, and made the drive over to visit us. We had SUCH a nice visit with them!

Miss Doozie blends into the campsite! Stealth mode!

There she is! It is quite wooded and shady where we decided to park. We were only able to get 2 nights reserved here, so will head out to start our eastward journey on Friday.