Thanksgiving Week on Vancouver Island

Riding the Blackball Ferry from Pt Angeles to Victoria

Will had the week off for Thanksgiving so we headed north to Vancouver Island.  We spent a couple of nights in Victoria and then a couple more in Tofino along the island's west coast.  I had not been to Tofino before.  It has that end-of-the-road feeling that you get in Alaska, especially in November, and it was a place I would have liked to spend more time in.  The 90 minute ferry ride from Port Angeles to Victoria is an abrupt change of scenery, culture, and urbanity.  Just the ticket for this post-election funk that much of the Northwest is feeling.  After a week of green, wet, maritime Northwest I was happy to get back to Bend.  It is starting to feel like home to me.  Then again, the entire Northwest feels like home and always has.  Good to get out and explore some new parts of it.  I marveled at the juxtaposition of my time in northern Nevada with the feeling of Tofino.  I love living in a part of the world with such contrasts.  

Chinatown, Victoria

Victoria's Inner Harbor

On the way to Tofino

Meres Island old growth

Tofino's town beach

Beach trail, Tofino

The Tofino docks at sunset

Morning flight

Beach near Tofino