In Yatta We Trust

Saturday, 6 am. It's time to get up! Today we go to Tofino!

We got a bus until Horsehoe bay in West Vancouver, where we hop on the ferry and here we go to Vancouver Island. 10 am, we arrive in Nanaimo (east coast), we get our car: a Ford Focus wagon! Waaa that was a bit scary for me, because i only drive once every year

Tofino is 4 hours away, we have to cross all the island from east to west. The road is very nice, we drove past lakes, huge trees, mountains with snow, and we finished by reaching the pacific... beautiful!
I didn't get any trouble with the car, and the automatic gear make it way easier!

The Pacific Rim Park is made up of three separate regions: Long Beach (where we were), the Broken Group Islands, and the West Coast Trail (a hardcore 75km trail!). It rains over 3 meters a year in this area! All the forest around are rain-forests, full of bears, cougars and frogs We didn't meet any bears over the weekend. But we saw one deer on the road and a bald eagle in the sky.

Long Beach, Tofino

Bog (Tourbiere)

The forests here are just so huge, some trees are 800 years old, they were here before Colombus! The French forests look a bit sad to compare to these ones! I have never seen trees so big before!

Tofino is a big spot for surfing, there are some very big waves here! We didn't see too many surfers in the water. They were too busy chatting up girls in the pub! (Brice de nice style!).

We did most of the trails park on Sunday, the weather was nice that day. But on Monday, it was pouring tons of rain. We had to drive under the snow on the way back, epic! One car was in the ditch, so you can be sure i was concentrated! Jen was a good co-pilot, even though her map only shown half of our trip.

Ed and a huge tree

A very nice getaway weekend, in the wilderness of the pacific coast. I don't really know how much we spent during these 3 days, probably around 400$. But it was worth it!
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That's it we definitely said hasta la vista to our mountain. We went a last time to Cypress this week, just to check how was our overall progression. We can say now that we are pretty good at snowboarding, and we will be able to surf finger in the noise in the coming winters in Europe or wherever. I was about to sell my board, but now i'm thinking i should bring it back, a little souvenir for the nice time i had with it here!

We will miss Cypress and all the crazy people we met here
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April is here, we are nearly at the end of our year here in Vancouver. We are jobless, so this is the moment to make a list of all the stuff we want to do and see before the end. This includes a walk on the English bay beach, all you can eat Indian and sushi, a little bike stroll around Stanley Park, bring back Jen's favorite Chinese chili sauce, a last run with my snowboard, a weekend in Tofino, see some raccoons or seals, and a secret trip in May... and too many others things.

We went to Lighthouse Park yesterday, a virgin forest located in West Vancouver. Some of the 500 year old Douglas firs stand as tall as 60m - these were big trees even in 1792 when Captain Vancouver mapped this coast. A lot of trees were down, due to the last winter storm; the same storm which destroyed a part of Stanley Park. Go have a look at the photos, and play the game "Where the hell is puppy?"

Jenifer bank cards was copied, she can't use it anymore. It was probably over an ATM. Be careful!
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I bought a ticket for the return, with zoomairlines this time, since i got screwed up with british airways ultra. If you have nothing to do the 15th of May, Dad, can you come and pick me up at the airport ?