Our day in Victoria was awesome, we went kayaking down a little river towards downtown where we parked the kayaks in the harbour and had dinner by all the houseboats. There were a few seals in teh harbour being fed by tourists as well. After that we walked downtown and got a backroad tour of Victoria with Mike's uncle. It was pretty neat, he took us through some old narrow roads through nice little residential areas. We also climbed up Mount Tolmie for a look at the town from above. Overall Victoria is a beautiful cities with some great views.
Next day we got a ride up to Comox where mike had a buddy in the army base. More of a relaxing day, we did a small hike and made sushi.
Finally the hardcore biking begins, next day we bike down the east coast and then started across the island. A total of 90 km, half of which was through pouring rain. We got into a little "honour system" style prov. park called Little Qualicum Falls which was quite nice. Quite and in the middle of the rainforest, although everything on the island is essentially rainforesty. The forests are very thick and full of ferns and moss. Most of our warm clothing was wet and it rained all night so we had no way to dry it. Pretty shitty sleep.
Luckily the next day turned out to be gorgeous. Sun shining, we biked to Port Alberni a gorgeous port town right in the middle of the island comletely surrounded by mountains. On teh way we stopped at Cathedral grove a little hiking route that contains some of the largest trees in CAnada, mostly Red Cedars while the biggest are Douglas Firs. Very impressive. We stopped in Port Alberni to dry ouir clothing and stock up on food. I wish we could have toured around the town more. Then we biked up towards the west coast for 4 hours. Amazing scenery right beside Sproat Lake. Found a sweet backcountry spot to camp with an amazing view of snow capped mountains.
And so the next day we biked 60km to Tofino through toiugh hills. Or Pacific Rim Natonal Park, not Tofino. To summazrize, today is sunny after a week of clouds, beautiful, mike went surfing, I took it easy on the beach. Tofino is a small litlle hippy town.
Future plans are to bike back to Tofino in 2-3 days and possibly do a 7 hour hike (with overnight) to see Della Falls, highest in North America at 440m.
Adios for Now
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2 comments:
post a couple of photos!
sounds like you are having quite the adventure!! :) if you need any contacts for cities across canada let me know i can see what i can do (thanks to explore program :P)
Drea
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