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Jenny (friend of Natalie), Aline (researcher of forests from France), and I went to Tofino for the last three days. It was a great trip, and we had great luck with weather which is often very wet on the west coast. We were going to stay at the hostel in Tofino both nights, but we camped out the first night because it was full. The hostel was clean and well run, but too sterile for my tastes.
It's been a long time since I've been to Pacific Rim National Park, and it was nice to relive some childhood memories. The Bog Trail made a big impression when I was small because of the carnivorous flowers, and it was great to see it again and be able to appreciate more what an amazing habitat the bog is. On the way back we also stopped by the B.C. Forest Museum near Duncan, where I took another trip down memory lane on the small train that goes around the museum (it was much less exciting than I remember).
For me the trip was just for fun, but for Aline it was partially research as well. Jenny introduced us to some very interesting acquaintances. Richard Mackie is the author of Island Timber and had lots of information and piles of great old maps. We also met a fellow who lives on Sproat Lake, is building his own musical instruments, and has an amazing knowledge of all the plants in the region. I'd never tasted the root of Licorice Fern before, but it does indeed taste like its name would suggest (but kind of bitter).
Unfortunately, I only have pictures from the first day and the morning of the second, because I was smart enough to submerge my camera in the ocean for a good thirty seconds. We were walking through the water to a small island, but it was deeper than I expected, and the camera was in the lower pocket of my cargo pants. Luckily I had switched memory cards just a short time before this happened, so all the earlier pictures were saved. Pentax doesn't think the camera can be repaired.
Posted on Wed, 30 Apr 2020
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