Summer Vacation- Part One

We took our summer vacation early this year and travelled to Vancouver, Vancouver Island and Seattle. We had sunny weather all but one day out of ten and it was quite hot. Vancouver and Tofino are beautiful places to visit when the sun is shining.  Tofino had some beautiful hiking trails with lots of old growth forest and beautiful views of the ocean.  Here are a few photos from our trip.....

 

View of downtown Vancouver

On the ferry to Vancouver Island

A short, but stunning, trail on the way to Tofino (see next three photos for views)

 Ocean and mist near Tofino

 Charge!!!!!

 Hiking in the rainforest on the one day it rained

 

 We had a wonderful time at the small aquarium in Ucluelet, which had lots of touch tanks

 The Lighthouse Loop on the Wild Pacific trail had the most stunning views of the trip (next 4 photos)

 We also enjoyed the funky botanical gardens in Tofino

We signed up for a boat ride to the hot springs, which turned out to be a ride from hell (no joke)

 This photo does not do the trip justice ... for most of the ride the waves almost engulfed the boat. It was the scariest boat ride of my life! Maya was very frightened.

 

Luckily we survived to enjoy the views and hot spring!

  The water was very hot so we mostly just dipped our feet in

The ride back to Tofino was much calmer and enjoyable (thankfully)

 We also saw a black bear