Tofino 2008

May 27, 2008 by Peter in Travel | Leave a comment

Spending a week in Tofino, trying to chill and forget about work etc. Staying at the Pacific Sands Resort which is nicely priced and situated between 2 much higher priced hotels – the Long Beach Resort and the Wickaninnish Inn. For those of you that might not know, Tofino is located on the west coast of Vancouver Island, about 2.5 hours from Nanaimo. It is situated right on the coast, and our beach (Chesterman Beach) faces open ocean, clear to Japan. It really is a fantastic area, highly recommended. This is the 3rd time we have been here and I’m sure it’s not the last. It’s a great area for surfing, apparently, as the waves can get pretty high at certain times of the year. Right now, the rating is “moderate” for the Wave Warning posted on the way into town. Incidentally, since the last time we were here several Tsunami Area and Tsunami Evacuation Area signs have been put up. We’re in one of those zones, let’s hope we stay status quo ;).

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Hope to post pics to Flickr at some point and keep blogging. Wifi is sparse, though, as of right now the only place I can get a signal is out here on the ocean facing deck – darn ;).

Sechelt, BC

August 21, 2007 by Peter in 2007, Sechelt, Travel | 1 Comment

OK, last of the “vacation” reports – for a while at least. Spent 3 days at a Bed & Breakfast in Sechelt this week (A Place By The Sea) which was very relaxing. Mostly just lounged around, which took getting used to ;). Last day, however, we went on a 3 hour boat cruise up Sechelt Inlet (I’ve also heard it called Porpoise Bay) which was great, because while we didn’t see porpoises we did see dolphins and seals:

Great way to finish the time off. More pictures at my Flickr site here.

Home Again Home Again

August 18, 2007 by Peter in Photography, Travel | Leave a comment

After some horrendous traffic in Washington (flipped semi near Centralia, rush hour in Tacoma and construction in Seattle) we finally got home after driving about 10.5 hours. Long day, but glad to have done it in one stretch and be back. One bright spot – News1130 said there was a 40 minute border lineup. There were 3 cars. News1130 said that Highway 1 was backed up to 200th coming in from the valley. Nope, smooth sailing all the way. So don’t believe everything you hear ;).

So we’re home, but not for long – we leave Saturday morning for a Sechelt B&B for definite relaxation with Bruce & Janice. In the meantime, I have tried to catch up on the blogs (anyone notice?) and have also managed to post a small number of the over 2300 pictures that (mostly) I managed to take while we were gone. You can view them here.

I’ll post after we get back from Sechelt, no doubt with other pics.