Yim and I first began hiking after we moved out to Victoria, on Vancouver Island 25 years ago. The west coast of the island is home to Juan de Fuca Park, which offered us access to the scenic beauty, spectacular hiking, and roaring surf along the Pacific coastline of the Strait of Juan de Fuca.
Today this section includes a collection of stories on some of our hikes around the world.
Recent updates include stories on our recent three week hiking trip to Madeira,
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…
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…
From late 2001 until 2004, I was fortunate enough to have the opportunity to teach scuba diving off the barrier reef of Belize, and that is enough to spoil most anyone as southern Belize is one beautiful place to…
Blue Creek is a village in the Toledo District of southern Belize. It is a Mopan village, an indigenous, sub-ethnic group of the Maya who speak Kekchi, and home to about 300 residents. The community lies along flat roads, spanning…
