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Pacific Rim Whale Festival Tofino – Ucluelet
A fluke of timing (yes, I intended the fluke pun) allowed my family to partake in the Pacific Rim Whale Festival, an annual event that March 19-27, 2011 was the 25th anniversary. Significant restructuring of all the closets in our home led us to flee and we chose Tofino as our destination. As we reached the crossroads between Tofino and Ucluelet we say the big banner for the Whale Festival and we said to ourselves, “What whale festival? Annual? We live in Vancouver, not Bolton Ontario or some place … How clueless are we?” Into the tourist office we went […]
Shelter Restaurant Tofino
March Break 2011: When restaurant hunting there’s an issue of finding boring enough fare for children that has something the big people will want. Also it’s tougher when you have no idea what any restaurant in a town is like. Upon entering Shelter Restaurant in Tofino, we were greeted by good looking people who were the 20-somethings that you expect in a downtown Vancouver restaurant (think Earl’s or Cactus Club). So, I was forced to ask if the place was kid-friendly. “We love kids,” said the hostess and she produced a kids menu and crayons. All the staff were great […]
Half the fun of Tofino is getting there
The trip from Vancouver to Pacific Rim National Park, Tofino and Ucluelet is a significant drive but has benefits, most of them visual. When you think about traveling around an island, you don’t often think of mountains. On Vancouver Island, mountains are very real and have an impact on your driving plans, unless you’re a nitwit like me and forget about the mountains. As you take Highway 19 from Nanaimo (follow the signs to Parksville as you leave the Departure Bay Ferry Terminal) it all seems fairly normal coastal Vancouver Island terrain. To get to the Pacific Rim, watch for […]
Jamies Whale Watching Ucluelet
Jamie Bray started out his whale watching trips out of Tofino in 1982, but on the day in March 2011 we wanted to go, we found out that the second office in Ucluelet had a family deal, which meant that the kids were free if there were enough adults. It’s $99 per person for the whale watching tour. If you have a child under 5 or a certain height, you are required to do the tour in a covered boat (not a Zodiac). In this case, our vessel was the Lady Selkirk. We were early in the season (the Ucluelet […]
McKenzie Beach Magic
Around the world you will find many sacred sites. Ancient rock and mystical tales abound in places like Scotland, England and Ireland. Canada I have been told is a young country. Well the land we walk on is ancient, full of mystery and natural beauty. Tofino is a fishing and tourist town filled with First Nations culture, art and people, hippies living their dream and people who just love the rain forest way of life. For 13 years we travelled to Tofino each winter and for us it became a sacred place. A place to watch the ever changing cycles […]
Pacific Rim National Park
Pacific Rim National Park is considered a “nature reserve”, having never actually been granted park status by the Federal Government, but that aside, it is a very unique and special place. No, it doesn’t have any ski hills or major hiking trails, but what it does have is real. What you see is the product of wind, rain and salt spray. The trees are often twisted and stunted and when you look at them, you can see they are clinging on to the volcanic rock and you wonder how old they really are. It is a marginal existence, coated with […]
