Uclulet in May-on to Pacific Rim Park and eventually home...

Our second day in Ucluelet

was another beautiful day

This is a view that you have to like waking up to...

I am an early morning person and I wasn't disappointed as I went out on our deck.

Below was the view from my bedroom deck

We set off for Black Rock Resort for breakfast!

And it was delicious as was the view!

Quite the breakfast view

especially when you get to see a whale which we did!

We then had a nice walk on the Wild Pacific Trail

but we had lots to see so our walk wasn't too long… On the way out of the resort in our car, we saw a wolf loping along...

Our next destination was to do some beach exploring at Pacific Rim National Park.  (Don't forget to get your parking pass-there is a ranger station just on the main road.)

I can virtually take you to Wickannish Beach...

Here we are at Long Beach…

We stopped in at Middle Beach Lodge on our way to Tofino

I love the views from here 

We went into Tofino but we had missed our destination which is between Middle Beach Lodge and Tofino, a little mall...

where you find Tacofino, once a food truck now a stationary one here but now there are two restaurants in Vancouver and a food truck.  The best tacos...

And I can't believe it no picture from Chocolate Tofino-great chocolate and gelato and conveniently located in the same little mall!!!!

We headed back to Uclulet and our great view!

and giving you a little atmosphere below

Another stunning moonlit evening!

Sadly Friday morning we knew we had to head home!

Here's a view inside our unit at Water's Edge Resort in Club Intrawest section.

We had great coffee at Zoe's in town and had a tour of Whiskey Landing  Resort where I actually won two nights and will return in September!  We even had a tour and it looked very nice.   And then we were on our way!

Lunch was in Coombs where you can find goats grazing on the roof of the general store.  

We had a pleasant wait for the ferry

and a beautiful cruise back to West Vancouver

driving through Vancouver's downtown and up Cambie Street was a bit of a shock to the system after the peace of Vancouver Island but all was quiet at my house and we had a great getaway!

Next trip I will be taking you on 

Will be Boston so stay tuned!

Ucluelet and the West Coast of Vancouver Island! Day One!, June, 2016

It had been a couple of years since I had been to Ucluelet

So it was really about time for a trip plus bonus, I get to see my old friend, Jennifer.  I went to high school with Jennifer and Art, her husband, so this is a long friendship-try 50 years, now that is scary!!!

So Val and I were off early in the morning and made the 8:30 ferry from Horseshoe Bay to Nanaimo.

As you can see it was a perfect ferry riding day… 

We had a little stop at Cathedral Grove

All that oxygen!!!

Next stop was at the Halsall's outside Port Alberni

We had a nice lunch and a visit with the animals

It is always a fun place to visit and very pretty.  But long ago when I first moved to Vancouver, the Halsalls, lived in Ucluelet 

which was our destination.

We checked into the Water Edge Resort.  I have a membership at Club Intrawest which owns ten suites there.  Then we went off to dinner at Matterson House in town.

We also stopped for some groceries at the Coop but I didn't take pictures!

But above is the view from our porch at our unit-looking onto the marina

We took a little walk around the resort and here's the view of the harbour.

It just got prettier as the day turned into night!

And here is our moonlit view!

A bit more dramatic view than mine from home in Vancouver

Stay tuned for our next day on the West Coast of Vancouver Island.