Friday, August 13, 2010

Vancouver Island

this is going to be quick and brief...don't have alot of time

Jen and I took a bus/ferry/bus from Vancouver to Victoria Monday August 9th

Tia Lupy picked us up with our backpacks, a tent and sleeping bags. We were ready to rough it out for a couple days!
We left tues morning in Tia Lupys car..headed to Nanaimo..about 1 hr north on the island.
They call it the Harbour City. Absolutely beautiful.
We had fish and chips...fresh from the sea on a restaurant that was on a dock. First thing first was finding where we were going to sleep that night.
So we saw a sign for camping...on an island. Thats where we ended up. Newcastle Island...just a 10 min. ferry from Nanaimo. We lugged our stuff over, pitched our tent..which was right by the water...freaking amazing.

That day we drove up to Parksville (sand castle competition/beautiful beach) and Qualiqum Beach which was also pretty spectacular. We had some delicious icecream..grabbed some timmys on the go and by 9pm we were back on our island because that was the last ferry we had to catch or we would have had to swim to our camp site!

This week there was supposed to be a meteor shower..so we looked for some shooting stars..didn't see any...jen said she saw 4...i dunno about that..ahahha
The sun set was beautiful...and very quickly it got cold. So as we are in our tent we just herd the weirdest noises...jen was freaked out by a family of golden fat ass racoons...and we also saw black tailed deer and a bald eagle that we thought might eat us (if it was really hungry..according to Steven)

Wednesday: woke up early..packed up..but we had to wait for the ferry...so by about 10am..1030ish..we were on our way to TOFINO!!! we were so excited!!

on our way...we stopped at Coombs (goats on the roof..see picture in next blog), Cathedral Park (the tallest/oldest trees in Canada), and Port Alberni (gas station..woohoo!)
We got to Long Beach (just south of Tofino..and it was as if we had entered another world..the sky all of a sudden turned grey...the clouds were low..and when we got out of the car it was freezing!!!
Needless to say...I was very dissapointed in our Tofino/Long Beach experience :(
We didn't get to surf..we didn't even go in the water...no sun tanning...nothing

which only means one thing....we shall return!!!

lodging was a probblem in Tofino...long story short..we ended up on a front lawn of a park office..HAHAHHAA Jen an I died of laughter...from a native untouched island to a front lawn camping...ridiculous...

thurs we woke up on the front lawn ...wet...very wet...the sky was still grey..the rain was coming down...we got the hell outta there as quick as possible...

I was back in Victoria by 5pm thursday. Jen took the ferry back to Van from NAnaimo...

no i'm at Tia Lupy's...and we are heading in 5 min back North...to an island where Bill's family has a cabin...no showers, no running water..totally secluded..can't wait!

pictures of all this to come....

XOXO

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