The Koksilah River (Xwulqw’selu Sta’lo’, Watershed) is located south of Duncan on Vancouver Island and lies within the traditional territories of Cowichan Tribes, Malahat Nation and other First Nations. It originates on the slopes of Waterloo Mountain, southwest of…
Mystic Beach, ocated close to Jordan River in the Juan De Fuca Provincial Park, is one of the best hikes on Vancouver Island and is well known for its coastal beach waterfall that flows right into the ocean and…
In April of 2011, Yim and I decided we would take a road trip to Portland, Oregon. We hopped aboard the Coho in downtown Victoria early one April morning for the 90 minute trip over to Port Angeles and…
Situated on the rugged southwest coast of Vancouver Island, Point No Point looks out across the Strait of Juan de Fuca to the Olympic Peninsula in Washington State. So what’s with the name? According to the resort, when the…
The Broken Islands Group is a group of small islands and islets in the middle of Barkley Sound on the West Coast of Vancouver Island. The group is protected as the Broken Islands Group Unit of the Pacific Rim…
One of North America’s largest and best marine facilities, the Vancouver Aquarium, houses more than 70,000 critters, including white beluga whales, sea otters, Steller sea lions, and Pacific white-sided dolphins. During regularly scheduled shows, aquarium staff explain marine-mammal behaviour…
On the Southwest coast of Vancouver Island, around a 2-hour and 15-minute drive from Victoria, lies the Juan de Fuca Provincial Park and one of its most exciting treasures: the biodiverse tide pool wonderland of Botanical Beach. Botanical Beach…
While driving home from my sister’s wedding in northern California in 2008, we stopped at a place we had stopped in at several years earlier while on our road trip from Vancouver Island to Belize… Ruby Beach, and found…
