Road Trip, Aug 14 2012

Leif Norman

From Ucluelet and Tofino

to Comox down a logging road…

Big slimy British Columbia slug. He has purple eyes!

 

 

Surf Junction Campground, Ucluelet BC

 

Surfing lessons by Lars

 

Surf Junction Campground has a very nice hot tub and sauna

 

Nice old church in Ucluelet BC

 

Ucluelet BC with very steep roads

 

The Blue Room Bistro menu in Ucluelet BC

 

The Blue Room Bistro in Ucluelet BC

 

Douglas Ludwig West Coast photography, Ucluelet BC

 

An excellent Eggs Benedict from the Blue Room Bistro

 

The Blue Room Bistro in Ucluelet BC

 

Ucluelet BC

 

Nice boats and seascape in Ucluelet BC

 

Lyche Island in the fog, Ucluelet BC

 

The Wharf at Ucluelet BC

 

An old wooden trail abandoned in the Forest.

 

A fine selection of West Coast Beers

 

Nice building in Ucluelet BC. Heavily filtered by Snapseed

 

Funny wiry feathery plant on the West Coast B.C. Horse Tail?

 

 

Beach south of Ucluelet on Odyssey Lane

 

 

Rocks and Waves south of Ucluelet BC

 


 

Entering Tsunami Hazard Zone sign, Ucluelet BC

 

Mostly tame deer munching a tree ten feet away from us, Ucluelet BC

 

Boats and RVs. Ucluelet BC

 

Kids Eating Ice Cream in Tofino BC

 

Interesting clouds, Tofino BC

 

 

Tonquin Park, Tofino BC, at the end of Campbell Street

 

 

The beach at Tonquin Park, Tofino BC

 

 

Nice abstract sand ocean shapes

 

A British Columbia sea shell

 

 

Macro sea weed, looks like salad

 

“Dangerous Currents at Long Beach”

 

Hazardous Waves and Rip Currents!

 

Surfing at Long Beach south of Tofino

 

 

 

Long Beach, Vancouver Island

 

Surfing at Long Beach, south of Tofino, Canada

 

 

Lovekin Rock, Long Beach, BC

 The road from Port Alberni to Tofino is one of the best driving roads on the island.

I wish I had a Ferrari…

Logging Activity by Port Alberni, BC

We went from Port Alberni, down the Beaver Creek Road and then to the Comox Trail, which looks like a proper road on the map we had, but it actually a rough single lane logging road. Yikes!

Logging on Vancouver Island. The forest looks pretty wrecked.

 

The far western part of Comox lake had an old drowned forest. Odd…

 

The Long Road, East of Elsie Lake, North West of Port Alberni

 

 

 

 

The West end of Comox Lake

 

And then after 90 minutes of rough horrible roads we reached a locked gate. We were so close to Comox and then had to turn around and go all the way back to Port Alberni. I thought about taking the car over the big hump on the left, but it would probably have wrecked it.

 

Location of locked logging road gate that wasted three hours of our time while trying to get to a nice soft bed in Comox