Playgrounds and things to do with kids in Victoria

Petting farm in the park, with goats to meet up close.

Big park with a petting farm and a playground.

The province's legislature, a grand stone building with guided tours inside.

Famous display gardens with a hand-carved carousel.

Small aquarium with touch pools of local sea life.

Castle-style mansion museum with stained glass and a tower you can climb.

Shop and working lab full of fossils and dinosaur pieces.

Whale watching trips by boat, out of the harbour downtown.

Floating homes and food stands on the docks, with seals that swim right up.

Rainforest trails along a river under huge old trees.

Treetop walkway out to a spiral lookout tower, with a slide back down.

Rooms of tiny hand-built scenes and dioramas, with model trains running through.

Huge independent bookstore in a grand old bank building.

Boat tours out on the water to see orcas and humpbacks.

Big museum with natural history galleries, including a life-size woolly mammoth.

Small park full of tall carved totem poles.

Small indoor zoo of live insects and spiders, some of them yours to hold.

Indoor tropical garden with butterflies flying free all around you.

Sandy beach with a playground close by.