Brendon was stoked to surf Tofino..
We went and checked out the little hippy township and found this funky cafe
The next day we went down to the rocks for a fish before heading to the Tofino Botanical Gardens
The gardens where nice, you could get a coffee at the Darwin Cafe and take it with you while you wander around the gardens. It was a pretty random place though with some weird statues
Random stuff like this...
As we left the west coast to head inland, we did a tiki tour past another small town called Ucluelet with a nice coastal trail to walk
We drove pretty late into the night so when we went through Chemainus which is well know for its murals we didn't get many good pictures. There were so many older brick buildings and most of them had giant vintage murals painted on the sides of them
Luckily that night the park ranger at Bamberton Park forgot to close the gate to the beach carpark so we found somewhere nice to stop and sleep.
Third day in we drove through a town which I absolutely loved called Duncan on our way to Victoria. It was the town of totem poles, and randomly there was a Maori totem pole from a carvers exchange program which was choice to see
This town also had lots of beautiful painted buildings
My favourite thing in this little town was this awesome old building turned into a tiny indoor market with all organic stuff, I could have lived in there
We quickly checked out the Birds of Prey park, before we got back on the road. Most of them looked to be rescue birds, and had a little area with food, water and a perch so they were so close to you but couldn't reach you
Turkey Vulture, he was in a cage
This little guy was my fav, look at him clutching his little lead
That night we spent down town outside the famous parliament building in Victoria for Canada Day, there was live bands, fireworks and tonnes of people out on the streets
We actually got a place to stay here, three nights in the back of the truck was enough, we managed to find a nice little old done up apartment walking distance from all the action
Our last day over there we walked around the town looking at all the old buildings and going for the famous alley way walks past all the little alternative shops
The last alley way ended up in old Chinatown
We had a bit of time left before we had to catch our boat so on the way out there we stopped into Butterfly Gardens
Heading back home on the boat...
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