I like Beacon Hill Park in the spring, there's a really nice alpine garden there. :)

Let's see if this works!

erm

no.

Oh well, see below!

Here is a link that might be useful: Beacon Hill Park, Victoria BC

Let's see...hey...it gets there. Bit different, but that's the right idea.

The bare bones GPS coordinates out of that long link are 48.410060,-123.364940

And stuffed into that snippet in my first reply, it's like this... (for Google Earth)

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=48.410060,-123.364940&output=kml

And like this... (for Google Maps)

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=48.410060,-123.364940

Google Earth Beacon Hill and Google Maps Beacon Hill

Now, if this works right, I embedded the Google Maps code into this image >> CLICK IMAGE TO TRY

If that works, here's the code, but I put an "X" to substitute for every "" in the code so it displays...so "XX" is where two tags meet ">Xa href="http://maps.google.com/maps?q=48.410060,-123.364940"XXimg src="http://www.beaconhillpark.com/images/walktour25.jpg"XX/aX

And an attempt at Google Earth...

Here's the website for that Beacon Hill Park...that's the one, right...

Beacon Hill Park

Figures it has a lot of flowers in B.C. !!

I'm pretty lucky to live a couple blocks up the street from

Kubota Gardens!!

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Interesting places on Earth. Pictures from satellite. Interactive maps. Google Earth Plug-in

Here is a link that might be useful: the third planet

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collection of interesting places on Earth. Parks, public gardens, wonders of nature. It is developed on Google maps.

Beacon Heal Park ( 48.410060,-123.364940):
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Here is a link that might be useful: the third planet

That's Beacon Hill of course, and not Heal. What's all the gray? Asphalt? Gravel?

One really cool feature on Google Earth and Google Maps (Earth is more clear) is the Street Level View.

Sitting at your chair at your desk, you can zoom around and cruise up and down streets and get close-up views of houses and yards.

Overhead fly around with birds eye view and see everything!

If you ever wondered what that weird neighbor 3 houses down has in his backyard, now you can look. Goodbye privacy, hello nosy spying, free easy and from your chair.

AND you can zoom around looking at beautiful trees. The updating varies around the country. Some views are only a week old while some are a year old. Apparently Google will be updating frequently in the near future.

I think the gray is grass at Beacon Hill Park. I've been there several times and remember no asphalt or gravel. It is a really beautiful city park with great views of the Olympic mountains across the Strait of Juan De Fuca.

Kubota Gardens is near where I work in Seattle when I go up there twice a year. I'll have to check it out.

I've never really looked into Google Earth. I would like to see into my neighbor's backyards. There is a barking dog I need to indentify.......