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Tsunami Hazard Zone
We finally had some sunshine for our journey to Tofino! Long Beach was pretty cool with some huge waves, a couple of surfers, and lots of washed up kelp. We had another fabulous picnic lunch, on the beach and in the sun this time, while we fought off the attention of all the seagulls. We got a few pictures with the digital camera on the beach, but there should be some more awesome pics from Mike's film camera on the way, its been really hard to find ...
As Far West As We Can Go!!
... by the sulphury smell wafting our way. Changing into swimsuits, we carefully lowered ourselves into the hot water. It was amazing! So relaxing! It couldn’t have been a more perfect day for the pools – cool, gray and a bit of wind blowing off the ocean when we needed to cool down. The water temps were about 105 degrees F (50 degrees C), and we met all kinds of neat people from around the world. These are the best springs we’ve been ...
Tofino: Grazing in the Gardens
... watching them being shucked and trying the different kinds. He loved the “black pearls”. His beverage of choice was the blonde from the Tofino Brewering Company (yes, the beer).
I loved some of the names of the BC wines… “Dirty Laundry”, “Therapy”, “Freudian sip” etc. A lot of great wines, for sure, and the raspberry beer was also fabulous. ...
Tofino
... cross roads! The bus journey was 3.75 and about 45 mins to the ferry terminal. We then caught the ferry across to Departure bay on Nanaimo, The ferry journey was very smooth and the weather was excellent making the journey very pleasent indeed. I think its about 14 dollars which is very reasonable!
From Nanaimo we hired a car from the company wrent a wreck, which is pretty much what it says, ur renting an old car, its supposedly cheaper but ...
The Love of Nature
... has its own agenda and the whales decided that they were a little busy to pose for any pictures. I did capture a mother and baby humpback whale (along with another escort whale) in the area but the timing was a little off as was the distance, even with a 100-400 telephoto lens (thanks Rob!!!) that these pictures did not turn out.
As well as the Humpback whales, my wish was to capture a Killer whale (orca) in its ...