July 2016 archive

Almost home…

As we are almost at the end of our trip, I am getting more lazy to post updates.. I really should because I have the LTE network connection here at McDonald Camp in Saanich and it would be uploaded in seconds.. So, I procrastinate no more and present the summary of what we’ve been up.. After …

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Telegraph Cove

If you ever wanted to visit a post-card ready community, Telegraph Cove is it. Telegraph Cove has only about 20 year-round residents and is rich in history. The community’s economy is based primarily on tourism – whale watching, fishing charters, kayaking, etc We visited Telegraph Cove as we had made arrangements for a kayaking tour. …

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Cape Scott Provincial Park – backpacking

Once we were parked and set up at Cluxewe, we drove to the Port Hardy Visitor Center to obtain more information about the Cape Scott Trail. The staff said that it usually takes 3 hours from the highway to make it to the trailhead and the last 60+ km is on an active logging road. …

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Tofino

We have arrived at the Parks Canada Greenpoint campground on July 11th which is a very popular campground that is fully booked for the summer. The park has excellent interpretive programs and the beach is just a short trail away. The campground is in a dense rainforest, many of the sites do not have much …

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