![Gonzales Observatory](https://shorelifevictoria.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/p3160085-e1302582515395.jpg?w=1000&h=750)
The observatory on Gonzales Hill can make you feel as though you've walked into an M.C. Escher drawing.
![gonzales hill](https://shorelifevictoria.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/p3160084.jpg?w=1000&h=250)
The whole landscape there is pretty surreal. Victoria seems a distant dream and panoramic views over the shining waters of the straits inspire feelings of flight.
!['The Giant Gonzales'](https://shorelifevictoria.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/the-giant-gonzales.gif?w=1000)
The old timers thought that the mountain resembled a giant...
![sphinx](https://shorelifevictoria.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/sphinx1.gif?w=1000)
and a "Sphinx".
![James Robert Anderson](https://shorelifevictoria.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/james-robert-anderson-on-gonzales-hill.gif?w=1000)
James Robert Anderson- son of the well known HBC fur trader and early Victoria settler A.C. Anderson- scaling the heights of Gonzales.
![oaks](https://shorelifevictoria.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/oaks.jpg?w=1000)
Windblown oaks in a hillside garden.
![fairfield](https://shorelifevictoria.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/gonz.gif?w=1000)
The old view over Fairfield.
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