With our sights set on remote destinations around the Pacific Ocean like Alaska, Chilean Patagonia, New Zealand, and Japan, we'll be documenting our explorations as we go aboard SV SIRI!
Since we bought SIRI in 2022, visiting the Butchart Gardens has been on our bucket list. We finally got to visit them recently: once this past fall, and again in early January during their "Magic of Christmas" display.
To say the gardens lived up to the hype we had built up over the years would be an understatement.
Ever wonder how the heck we, two people who were most recently living in South Dakota and working in agriculture, got into sailing and are now living on a boat full-time in Canada preparing to head offshore in 2026?
Here's the full story...