Trips, guides and campgrounds on Vancouver Island
If you find yourself exploring the west coast of Vancouver Island, checking out the China Beach hike is a must! This easy and relatively short hike, leads to a gorgeous sandy beach and is the perfect way to spend a leisurely day while exploring the coastline. It offers up a bit of everything Vancouver Island is…
If you are looking for an incredible campground on Salt Spring Island, look no further than camping at Ruckle Provincial Park. This gorgeous camping spot offers mostly walk-in sites which all have incredible views over Swanson Channel. Grab your camping chair, take a seat and watch the ferries and boats go past. We spotted the…
If you find yourself driving the Pacific Marine Circle and stopping in Port Renfrew, you’ll definitely want to check out Avatar Grove and Big Lonely Doug! Vancouver Island is home to many areas of old trees which are accessible to explore, including the very popular Cathedral Grove. We found Avatar Grove to be a bit…
We ended up spending four days on Salt Spring Island, after we finished the West Coast Trail on Vancouver Island, we had no plans and a desire to explore somewhere we hadn’t been before. We settled on heading to Salt Spring Island for the September long weekend. We didn’t know what to expect but we…
If you are looking for the ultimate spot to camp along the south west coast of Vancouver Island, look no further than Jordan River Campground. Sandwiched between the highway and the ocean this is the perfect spot to relax or explore the area, or both! There is a day use area here but camping here…
During our last trip to the coast we decided to check out Salt Spring Island for a few days. A quick search showed that the Mount Maxwell hike would offer an excellent work to reward ratio, so we decided to check it out. Mount Maxwell offers one of the highest vantage points on Salt Spring…
If you are visiting Tofino or Ucluelet on Vancouver Island, you will drive past Cathedral Grove. You can’t miss it, since typically it is a very busy place and parking is on the side of the road, in the middle of almost nowhere. Cathedral Grove is located in the MacMillan Provincial Park and allows easy…
While camping at Goldstream Provincial Park, our camping neighbor suggested we go to Fort Rodd Hill and Fisgard Lighthouse. It turned out to be an excellent suggestion! It is the perfect spot to spend a day, especially if the sun is shining! There is lots to do outside and you can access a beach area…
Ucluelet exceeded my expectations when I last visited. We opted to do the Lighthouse Loop hike, one of the three sections of the Wild Pacific Trail located in Ucluelet. Along with the Lighthouse loop hike, there is also the Ancient Cedars and rocky bluffs section and lastly the artists loops and Browns Beach section in…
For many people backpacking the West Coast Trail is a bucket list trip but knowing what you should be packing to backpack the West Coast Trail can make or break the trip. For many, including myself, used to backpacking in the mountains, the West Coast Trail includes many conditions I wasn’t used to encountering. The…