Port Renfrew, Vancouver Island, Canada Travel Blogs

Family vacation!
Aug 4, 2006 (20 photos)

Vancouver Island is big - really big. From the southern port city of Victoria, we drive a bumpy, pot-hole-filled road for 2 hours north through dense conifer forest to Port Renfrew, a teeny-tiny end-of-the-road town where Vancouverites go to get away from ...

Cougar Country
Nov 27, 2004

... . Either that or he just thought I was an annoying dickhead, thus perfect panther prey. Leaving behind the Rangers station and Port Renfrew, a town that could not decide whether it wanted to be a rural crack den or an Indian reservation, I took my ...

West Coast Trail
Aug 20, 2009 (40 photos)

... zu wandern, in dem eine komischerweise Totenstille geherrscht hat. Am Samstag haben wir es dann geschafft, wir sind in Port Renfrew angekommen!!! Eine geile Zeit ging zu Ende und wir mussten uns wieder auf Zivilisation gefasst machen, was nicht so ...

The End of the mission
Aug 17, 2007

The West Coast Trail is over - woohoo!

The End of the Trail
Jul 9, 2009 (43 photos)

... . Imagine our surprise and dissappointment, however, when we discovered that there was no longer any taxi service to the town of Port Renfrew another 3 km distant! Curses! And ironically, after 7 days on the trail without a single blister, Celine earned a ...

Ladders going Up! Ladders going Down!
Jul 7, 2009 (52 photos)

Walbran Creek to Camper Creek 9 km - 8 hrs This morning we woke up to...more rain! Isha also alerted us to a set of cougar tracks that had appeared in the night. The big cat had been stalking an ungulate that bolted to escape the predator. It ...

10 Tage Burger braten!
Aug 10, 2009 (40 photos)

"Chez Monique's" ist ein kleines "Restaurant" in Mitten des West Coast Trails, also eher eine Versorgungsstation fuer die ganzen Hiker, die seit ein paar Tagen nichts G'scheids mehr gegessen haben. Und wir sollten fuer die Wanderer Burger braten, was wir ...

Cruisin
Aug 15, 2007 (6 photos)

... speeding ticket. I have found the car is a fantastic conversation starter. I met at 3 people today who wanted to learn about the car. Someone told me that convertible beetles never made it to Canada. Tim Horton Chocolate Chip Muffin Count: 2

Whale Watching II
Jul 26, 2009 (7 photos)

Am nächsten Tag in Victoria machten wir alle zusammen einen gemeinsamen Sonntagsausflug nach Port Renfrew. Seit Tagen wurden wir immer wieder gefragt, ob wir nicht doch nach Tofino wollten. Das wäre aber bestimmt ein zu grosser Stress gewesen. Mit dem ...

Wet and Weary
Jul 6, 2009 (48 photos)

Cribs Creek CG to Walbran CG 11 km - 8 hrs Last night it had rained, so we knew we would be packing up a wet fly. Then, shortly after breakfast, a soft mist turned into a gentle shower. As things started to get wet, we put on our rain gear and pack ...

A Day of Rest
Jul 8, 2009 (5 photos)

... afternoon, a man and his 19 yr old son rolled into camp after having hiked for 10 hours  in the pouring rain from Port Renfrew. They were keen to do this trip but seemed oddly unprepared. They didn't bother to set up there tent properly, they left ...