"i wish i had a polaroid..."

23. Day

Comox – Qualicum Beach – Parksville – Port Alberni

The first stop of our tour today was Qualicum Beach, it is a very small village. We walked around “downtown” and got some coffees for our junkies.

Later on we played Minigolf in Parksville, the park was really great! It has a lot of decorations and was really cute. Unfortunately I lost the game so I had to pay for an ice cream for the winner SUSI. :P

After a funny game we headed to Cathedral Cove this is in the Mac Millian Provincial Park. There were some trails through the woods, which lead to the largest tree in this forest. It too had some other big trees, was stunning.

As we wanted to stay in Stamp Falls Provincial Park for the night we drove to Port Alberni. We first visited this small city and the “suuper” lighthouse. :P

And then were looking for the campground, naturally we drove in the wrong direction and had to go back to the last sign which showed the direction to the Stamp Falls River.

After finding the park it turned out that there were no hook-ups so decided to find another spot to stay over.

On the way back to the city we got in a police control, but as Mario didn’t have his passport on him we had to pull out to look for it and show it to the lady.

Soon after we arrived at the RV Park and had some delicious dinner. =)

Then we enjoyed a movie with Popcorn =) We watched ‘Changeling’ which is a really good movie.

And for sure had a motto this day…

“I don’t know, I have never been here!”

24. Day

Port Alberni – Nanaimo – Tofino

This day we had a date in Nanaimo, that’s why we drove all the way back to Nanaimo. We parked our RV and walked around the pier and the old part of the city, which was really cute. After this walk we got hungry and enjoyed some European specialities in a small bakery. It’s really recommendable to go there! ;)

Since we had a rendezvous we went back to the car and drove to the ferry station where we warmly welcomed Stefan aka ‘Brüetsch’.

The final destination of this day was Tofino so we continued through the rain to get to this small, cute village.

We are staying at Bella Pacifica for 3 days; this camping is great it’s right next to the beach.

Today’s motto…

“Drive with caution or I have to puke!”

25. Day

Tofino

“So someone take her picture, so I don’t forget her, I wish I had a Polaroid, so I could remember!”

Waking up with raindrops falling on the roof was nice. But however it was not the right weather for our program today. Then we planned on doing whale watching and the others wanted to rent surfboards.

So we just drove to the village and wanted to visit the visitor’s office but we were 5 minutes early. The office should have opened at 10 o’clock but as we are in a hippie village they just take it easy. They don’t care about being on time or not. So the office opened at around 10.30 and we got our information and some postcards. =)

And finally it stopped to rain and so a few minutes later we booked our whale watching tour. Since there was time left to the start of the tour we rented some surfboards and wetsuits for the ones who want to try surfboarding.

So it was 12 o’clock and our tour was about to start, but first we got some suits to not get wet and then take our seats in this cute, little zodiac. Then we started…

We drove with 70km/h over weaves to an island where we saw some sea lions. After another ride we arrived at a bay where the whales we most likely to be seen. We had to wait a few minutes until we finally saw one. But we didn’t see much of it.

After a while we drove to another island and saw some sea otters. :P

On the way back we got to see a cow which lives wildly, this cow was on the beach to find some sea grass to eat.

Back on the camping “Brüetsch” went for a short bath in the sea. He has to be nuts :P The water is really cold and everyone only goes in with a wetsuit. :P

We wanted to barbecue some sausage but had a really fight with the fire until it burns. But after winning over the fire we enjoyed the delicious dinner and wonderful evening around the campfire! We listened to music and just sat around the fire. =)

And as we listened the whole day the music of ‘Shwayze’ the motto of the day has to be…

“I wish I had a Polaroid…!”