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!
There are loads of photos in the gallery, click here!