Tofino Time Magazine July 2007

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TofinoTime Magazine
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July 2007 issue sixtythree
Magazine in July 2007.
elcome to the
sixty-third issue
of TofinoTıme
Table of Content
July in Tofino
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Surf Etiquette
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Tide Tables
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Concerts in July
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Pacific Rim Summer Festival 10
produced on tofino time
by baku and adam
The intent of this publication is to serve as a forum in
we encourage submissions and
listings from the community
which the town of Tofino, its
event listings are free
submission deadline
is the 15th of the month
people and all the activities
that make life here special are
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Artist Marion Syme
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The Shorepine Bog Trail
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The Salmon Forest
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Tofino’s Crow Girls & Boys 18
What’s in name? MacLeod 20
Profile: Marilyn Brewer
contact info:
tofino time magazine
box 362
tofino, bc
canada V0R 2Z0
celebrated and promoted.
We hope to be supportive to
those in our community who
phone: 250-725-4468
fax:
250-725-4469
email: [email protected]
produce & organise all the
events that enhance our lives
cover photo:
jeremykoreski.com
and the time spent here by
photo below:
jeremykoreski.com
Artists Peter Clarkson
last month’s cover photo
was mistakenly miscredited— our apologies to
jackie windh
our visitors.
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Tofino Timeless Chapter 7 26
Gardening in July
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15 Minute Yoga
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Tofino Horoscope July
34
Community Calendar
36/37
Tofino Adventure Guide
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Travel Info
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Community Directory
44
Community Map
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and its community
July in Tofino
S
ummer is here and
there’s plenty to do and
see in Tofino this month.
Here’s a short list of what’s
happening:
Canada Day
One of Tofino's favourite
days has got to be Canada
Day with all its festivities in
the village green. The BBQs
get fired up at 11am and the
beer gardens begin at 4pm.
O'Canada will be sung by
Ben Mohl at 4:15 with the
Canada cake cutting there
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after. There will be entertainment in the gazebo by local
westcoast musicians and
groups. Last call in the beer
gardens will be at 7:30 and the
fireworks will be in the harbour at dusk. All proceeds will
go to the Mountain Bike
Committee to supports their
efforts to start building riding
trails and a jump park.
Skate Comp
The third annual Tuff
City Skate Comp will be held
once again this Canada Day.
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photo adam buskard
Tofino
The competition kicks off at
10am with registration,
Juniors start at 11am. The
heats are 12 noon for the girls,
1pm for novice, 2pm for intermediate, 3pm for advanced
the the awards will be at 4pm.
Be sure to show early for your
Pacific Rim Arts Society
heat in case times change.
Helmets are required to ride
The Pacific Rim Arts
and are available there.
Society is proud to be presenting their 20th Annual Summer festival. There are many
diverse types of performances
and showings in Tofino,
Ucluelet and in the Pacific
Rim National Park. If you
have any interest in volunteering in support of this event
they are looking for help. If
interested contact Daisy at
Parks & Rec Committee
725-8008. For complete event
The Tofino Parks and Rec listings check out pages 10 and
11 in this issue or online at
Committee has lots of great
summer programs to keep the www.pacificrimsummerfestival.ca
kids busy. Try out our thier
Raincoast Education
Board Sports Camp which
features everything from surf- Society
ing to skim boarding to wakeThe Raincoast Interpretive
boarding and skateboarding.
Center has a number of proHow about a Soccer Camp
grams running throughout the
taught by actual pro soccer
summer. Many of their activities
players; Adventure Camp
are outdoors and involve first
which includes an overnight
hand experience with the raincampout, Gymnastics Camp, forest. Most of the programs are
Art Classes and more! For
designed for children and youth
more info stop by the Munici- such as the Young Naturalists
pal Hall and pick up a copy of and Intertidal Investigators.
Tofino Parks & Recreation’s
Check out our community calsummer program guide or call endar on pages 36 and 37 for
725-3229
more details There is a new
theme every week so be sure to
drop by the center at 451 Mains
St. to see what they are up to.
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photo: stephen mayor surfer: ollie atkey
Surf etiquette
Etiquette
by Jay Bowers
I
t’s Saturday, the lineup is packed out and
Long Beach is reeling
left handers. You jump
into your suit and paddle
out to the pack. You look
over you shoulder and see
a wave heading towards
you… you start to paddle
and as you paddle you
look right and see the
wave has jacked up and
started to break. As the
wave breaks, you see
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another surfer dropping into
it (remember, you’re looking
right) — you can’t believe it!
With a hint of anger, you
stop paddling and back off
the wave.
What you did was the right
thing. As a wave breaks, you
have the peak of the wave
(where the wave folds over)
and next to it you have the
wall of the wave that you ride.
Where these two parts meet is
what we call the shoulder; this
is the take-off spot!! The surfer
closest to the shoulder has the
right of way for each wave—
there are no exceptions!!
So the next time you’re out
for a session, push yourself
closer to the peak—it’s a little
harder and a little heavier, but
you’ll find yourself getting
longer faster waves, with no
one yelling at you! I know each
one of us in the water does not
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want to be known as the ‘guy
who drops in on everyone’.
The line up is where we
wait to catch waves, just a little
out side of where they break.
Most of us sit on our boards
and face off shore to watch for
incoming waves because different size waves will break closer
to shore and further out. So
our point of take off will vary
on any given wave. When a set
comes in, your position in the
line up will dictate whether you
can paddle for the wave or not.
If the surfer closest to you is
closer to the shoulder or peak
and he or she has been waiting
longer than you in the line up
he or she is most definitely in
turn for that wave! You should
be looking at the next wave
coming through the line up
to determine if you are in
position or not.
We all have to share the
water, so the safer we surf and
the more we learn, the better
our sessions will be. Kayakers:
that goes for you as well!
Jay Bowers has been living
in Tofino since the early ‘90s.
He is a surf instructor and runs
Pacific Surf School in Tofino.
You can reach him by email at
[email protected]
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Surf Etiquette
Do not paddle out to a break
that is beyond your ability.
(Learning to surf at Jordan River
in the winter is a bad idea).
When paddling out and confronted with a wave hovering
overhead don’t ditch your board!
Hold onto it and learn how to
duck dive.
When you have paddled out
and made it to the line up, taking the 1st wave you see is poor
etiquette. Remember there is a
line up of sorts.
Smile, ask questions, take
some time to look around and
see where the take off spots
are and where the best places
to paddle are at.
Respect the locals: they have
a lot of knowledge of the waves
and the beaches in that particular area. If you paddle out with
an attitude that is what you will
get back.
Don’t paddle around someone who is in position to catch a
wave by paddling further out or
further inside. They are in position set up for the next wave.
The most important thing
that we can all bring with us
to a surf session is our common
sense. Without the understanding of some simple guidelines
it will only be a matter of time
before someone in your surf
session gets seriously hurt!
TOFINO TIDES IN JULY 2007
Sun 1 1:14 8:20 2:55 8:06
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Mon 2 1:57 8:57 3:29 8:51
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Tue 3 2:42 9:35 4:06 9:39
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Wed 4 3:29 10:13 4:45 10:30
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Thu 5 4:20 10:52 5:26 11:27
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Fri 6 5:15 11:34 6:10
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Sat 7 12:29 6:19 12:19 6:57
3.6’
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Sun 8 1:35 7:36 1:11 7:48
3.3’
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Mon 9 2:45 9:01 2:13 8:43
2.6’
8.2’
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Tue 10 3:54 10:22 3:24 9:42
2.0’
8.5’
5.6’ 11.2’
Wed 11 4:59 11:31 4:35 10:41
1.3’
8.9’
5.6’ 11.5’
Thu 12 5:58 12:29 5:39 11:38
1.0’
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5.6’ 11.8’
Fri 13 6:51 1:19 6:35
0.3’
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Sat 14 12:32 7:38 2:03 7:26
11.8’
0.3’ 10.2’
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Sun 15 1:22 8:20 2:44 8:14
11.8’
0.3’ 10.2’
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Mon 16 2:09 8:59 3:22 8:59
11.5’
0.7’ 10.5’
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Tue 17 2:53 9:35 3:58 9:45
11.2’
1.3’ 10.5’
4.3’
Wed 18 3:36 10:08 4:34 10:30
10.5’
2.0’ 10.2’
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Thu 19 4:20 10:40 5:08 11:18
9.8’
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Fri 20 5:07 11:13 5:44
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Sat 21 12:10 6:00 11:48 6:23
4.3’
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Sun 22 1:09 7:08 12:30 7:07
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Mon 23 2:16 8:35 1:23 7:56
3.9’
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Tue 24 3:23 10:02 2:32 8:51
3.6’
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Wed 25 4:25 11:10 3:45 9:46
3.3’
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Thu 26 5:17 11:59 4:47 10:39
2.6’
8.5’
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Fri 27 6:03 12:40 5:39 11:29
2.0’
8.9’
5.9’ 10.8’
Sat 28 6:44 1:16 6:25
1.3’
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5.6’
Sun 29 12:17 7:22 1:50 7:09
11.2’
1.0’
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Mon 30 1:03 7:58 2:23 7:53
9.5’
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Tue 31 1:48 8:33 2:57 8:38
11.5’
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3.9’
TFINO TIDE
Twice a Dy — twice the plesure!
brought to you by storm surf
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Mr Something
Something
Velvet
Los Rastrillos
Saturday, June 30, 2007
Saturday, July 7, 2007
Friday, July 13, 2007
Tofino Legion
Tickets $12, Doors 9pm
Tofino Legion
The Tofino Legion
Western instruments and
concepts of improvisation
are layered over what used
to be called afrobeat; but the
term strains to contain the
innovations happening in
the rhythm section at every
show. It also fails to express in
fiery-enough terms the contributions of electrifying
vocalist/performance artist
Johan Hultqvist. Breaks &
basslines are designed to
induce & sustain a state of
ecstatic dancing. The horn
section strikes with power
and uplifts with melody.
Velvet have quietly become
pioneers of live organic house
music. They infuse psychedelic,
acid-blues over phat house and
hip hop beats into one very
large show that is sure to make
the dance floor groove. With
an acoustic guitar, live bass,
heavy beats and original song
writing Velvet has a sound that
is original yet strangely familiar.
Velvet has shared the stage with
the likes of The Chemical
Brothers, Nelly Furtado, De La
Soul and DJ Shadow. Velvet’s
front man Kuba won the gold
medal at the National Songwriters Competition at the
Canadian Music Week in 2005.
For over a decade now Velvet
have rocked it every Sunday
night at Steamers in Victoria.
Mexico City has been skanking to the cool-mestizo-reggae
rhythms of the Rastrillos since
1988, grooving to their joys
and pains, following their
musical quest for basic human
values—friendship, respect
and love. Rastrillos music is a
fusion of mexican popular
music, with the root of reggae
mixed with a taste of the jazz,
funk, indú and ska traditional.
The Rastrillos’ songs talk about
all they have experienced during
this long voyage guided by the
four winds. They have shared
the stage with internationally
renowned groups, and with
the best the Mexican musical
scene has to offer.
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Allison Crowe
BC/DC
Josh Martinez
Friday, July 27, 2007
Saturday, August 4, 2007
USS Band Room
The Tofino Legion
Tofino Legion
Born of bush party ashes, Nelson’s bc/dc has systematically
redefined the concept of a tribute band. Their live show has
become a legendary, and necessary “rite-of-passage” amongst
their unwavering supporters and
believers. With over-the-top stage
energy, they deliver every last note
of the classic songs with absolute
authority. You get tired just watching them. bc/dc is heavily rooted
in the Bon Scott-era catalog (Dirty
Deeds, tnt, Jailbreak, Let There
Be Rock), but also covers ac/dc’s
second “golden era” with all the
essentials; Back in Black, For
Those About to Rock, Hells Bells,
and many more. Unlike many
tribute acts claiming to be “North
America’s #1 Clone”, bc/dc has
turned the tables. The band takes
a comedic approach, claiming the
tunes as their own, and to having “heard of some bc/dc tribute band from Australia”.
Martinez has built a solid
reputation around the world
for his engaging wordplay,
butter melodies and highenergy live performances.
His live show has captivated
audiences and spread his
reputation as one of the best
live performers out there.
Josh takes on more subject
matter in one song than most
rappers do in their entire
careers. Without a doubt
Josh is one of the best live
hiphop performers out
there, he brings the heat
with humor and intensity.
Clayoquot Sound Theatre
“Allison Crowe has a voice to fall
in love with. She is from Vancouver Island, from Irish and Manx
stock. She’s the sort of artist who
can make serious headway on her
own label and that’s just what she’s
doing,” says the UK's Record of
the Day. Now living and recording in Newfoundland, the celebrated singer-songwriter-pianist
returns to debut songs from her upcoming album, “This Little Bird”,
at a fundraiser for the Westcoast
Community Resources Society.
Advance Tickets: $15 General, $10
Students/Senior @ Crow’s Nest,
Words End, Beaches, Common
Loaf, Wildside & Enchanted.
Two words. Beach patio.
The Driftwood Coffee Lounge
at Chesterman Beach
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Canada Day
Ucluelet Village Green
Sun July 1
12:30-3pm
Tofino Village Green
Sun July 1
4-6pm
Free!
Celebrate Canada Day and
Pacific Rim Summer Festival’s 20th anniversary with
back to back sets featuring
a variety of talented west
coast performers: Bill Morrison, Rhy McMillan; Wayne
Vliet & Friends,The Lisa
Guest Band, Bottomfeeders, Roger Plant; Ron
Weeks & Los Dukes.
JULY
2
Kutapira Marimba and
Percussion Workshop
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Celebration
USS School Band Room
1450 Peninsula Rd., Ucluelet
Mon July 2
7-9pm
Workshop Fee:
$10
370 Campbell Street, Tofino
Thu July 5
8:30pm
Tickets: $7
Percussion participants must
provide own drum. Workshop
space is limited — please call
725-4271 to register
Johanna Vanderpol reads from
her book Honouring Your Emotions a simply written book, full
of profound wisdom. Johanna is
joined by west coast authors,
Janice Lore, Shirley Langer, Brittany Smith and Greg Blanchette.
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Kutapira
1450 Peninsula Rd., Ucluelet
Tue July 3
8pm
Tickets: $10 adults
$5 under 12
Rising stars on the west coast
world music scene, Kutapira
play a tasty mix of Zimbabwean marimba melodies and
spicy Afro-Cuban rhythms.
Their unique sound, upbeat
energy and exhilarating stage
performance have been winning raves. Bring the kids for
an evening of fun and dance!
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The Ecclestons
Greenpoint Campground Theatre
Pacific Rim National Park Reserve
Fri July 6
8pm
Tickets: $12 adults $6 under 12
The Ecclestons take the power
of Celtic soul and blend the spirit
of an Atlantic Canadian kitchen
party with the beauty of a warm
Pacific summer’s night. Virtuosity
and harmony are evident in their
songs, and in the delight of traditional Celtic music rediscovered.
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The Gruffs
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Ken Lavigne
SeaChange
July
Ucluelet Lodge Hotel
SoBo
1510 Peninsula Road, Ucluelet
Thu July 12
8:30pm Tofino Botanical Gardens
Fri July 6
9:30pm Tickets: $12 adults $6 under 12 June 22 - July 31
11am-9pm
Tickets: $10
No minors please Equally at home in the classical Mixed media marine themes
From old time country to bluegrass to good old rock and roll
these young songwriters harmonize, sing and shout songs
of joy, sorrow and everything
in between with astounding
energy and passion. ‘Artist of
the year’ at the 2007 Vancouver Island Music Awards
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tenor repertoire, Lavigne returns
to the musical theatre. Pianist,
Naomi Barclay; violinist, Julian
Vitek and bassist, Alex Olson
accompany Ken in this evening
of music from Rodgers & Hammerstein to Puccini
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Rumba Calzada and the
Salsa Moderna Dancers
Tofino Community Hall
351 Arnet Rd. Tofino
Sat July 14
Doors 9pm
Sat & Sun July 7 & 8
8:30pm Tickets:$15
No Minors please
Tickets: $15 adults $7 under 12 This Juno-nominated band’s
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Confession of an
Indian Cowboy
and found object sculptural
forms are the basis of this collaborative exhibit featuring
two of Tofino’s unique and
environmentally conscious
artists: Marion Syme and Pete
Clarkson.
JULY
Advance tickets for festival
events are on sale at:
Mermaid Tales Bookshop
455 Campbell St, Tofino
725-2125
Wildside Booksellers
320 Main Street, Tofino
725-2070
Word’s End Booksellers,
1576 Imperial Lane, Ucluelet
726-2665
Marla Thirsk
July
Village Square behind Word’s End
Imperial Lane, Ucluelet
July through August 10am-4pm
weather permitting
Also at the door 1/2 hour
prior to concert.
For more info or for out-of-town
reservations contact (250) 725The award-winning west coast 4271. Program is subject to
powerful and joyful music is
artist exhibits landscapes, murals, change without notice. A presentation of the Pacific Rim Arts
led by percussionist, composer still life and Koi paintings in
Society.
Raphael Geronimo. His vibrant her unique outdoor gallery
and original sound energizes this
group and inspires a soul-moving
Caribbean fusion of salsa and
Afro Cuban rhythms.
A probing, endearing and sometimes amusing look at the history of contact between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people. Master storyteller, singer
and dancer, Margo Kane plays
several distinct characters and is
joined by 3 top notch musicians: JULY
Chirgilchin
guitarist Barrie Nighwander, percussionist Joseph “Pepe” Danza
and fiddler Doug Thordarson. Greenpoint Campground Theatre
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Sun July 15
Tickets: $12 Adults
Autorickshaw
Tofino Legion, 331 Main Street
Tue July 10
8:30pm
Tickets: $15
No minors please
Autorickshaw is a perfect collision of styles, as contemporary
jazz and funk easily rub shoulders with the exotic sounds of
India with just a hint of Bollywood.
8pm
$6 under 12
Hailing from Tuva, a Russian
province north of Western
Mongolia, Chirgilchin sing
the folk songs of their ancient
culture while performing on
unique hand made traditional
instruments. They blow away
music categories with their
clear, brilliant and unassuming mastery of throat singing.
Chill on our beach patio with a nice cappuccino.
Jim wouldn’t have it any other way.
The Driftwood Coffee Lounge
at Chesterman Beach
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Pete Clarkson
P
eter Clarkson has
been a park warden
for 25 years, working
in some of Canada’s finest
national parks. In 1998 he
and his family moved to
Tofino, to work at Long
Beach in Pacific Rim
National Park.
As Clarkson explored
the park, he was moved by
the endless assortment of
debris washing ashore—
rope, painted wood, fishing
floats, plastic and other manufactured items—the castoffs from container ships,
tourism, commercial fishing
and everyday life. Closer
inspection revealed a vibrant
choice of colours and shapes,
worn and weathered, transformed by the ocean and
elevated beyond the mundane. These found objects
have become the raw
material for his art.
The choice of
materials provides a
unique palette for his
artistic expression, while
providing their own
commentary about
contemporary social
and environmental
concerns. As objects
transported on the
ocean currents, they
also carry a message
of global connectivity
and our economic
and environmental
inter-relationships.
A self-taught artist,
Clarkson’s work has
been collected and
displayed locally for a
number of years. Like
the tide itself, his work
is unique and full
of unexpected
treasures.
A selection of
Clarkson’s latest work,
in tandem with local
artist Marion Syme, can
be seen at the Tofino
Botanical Garden Gallery
in SoBo’s. The show,
SeaChange, ends July 31.
Marion Syme
Y
ou’ve probably seen Marion’s work around town.
Her artwork is in many
of the displays at the Raincoast
Interpretive Centre and she has
created several pieces for the
Clayoquot Biosphere Trust.
Marion has designed logos and
posters for many local events
including last year’s Food and
Wine Festival and the annual
oyster and lantern festivals. She
designs the newsletter for the
Friends of Clayoquot Sound
and believes that without this
wonderful, committed organization the Sound would be a
dismal place, stripped of its
character and natural beauty.
In her business, Clayoquot
Eclectic, through which she
creates and distributes fine
art cards, t-shirts and
reusable shopping bags,
Marion spreads the word
that this is a unique place
and its worth keeping that
way. Marion sees our greatest challenge is to continue
to live lightly without exploiting the very nature
that brought so many people to live in Clayoquot
Sound in the first place.
Although her work for
the past 20 years has primarily focused on graphic
arts, Marion has a fine arts
background. She graduated
from Emily Carr College
and in the past few years
has finally returned to fine
art, her passion and the
reason she pursued art in the
first place. Marion loves to
draw. She sees her art as a
process, evolving with each
snippet and doodle. Inspired
by music, writing and the
rich array of people that
have gravitated here, Marion finds her experiences
in nature fuel her work.
A few of Marion’s
latest pieces, inspired by
moments at the beach, can
be seen at SoBo in the
Tofino Botanical Gardens
through July 31st.
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the shorepine bog trail
by Sean McCarroll
T
he Shorepine Bog trail
may be one of the easiest trails in the Pacific
Rim National Park, but that
doesn’t change the fact that
it is easily one of the most
interesting.
It’s entirely made up of a
flat boardwalk, there are no
stairs, gullies or mud patches
to contend with; it’s wheelchair accessible and the loop is
less than 1km so it only takes
about 20 minutes to complete. There may not be any
giant moss-draped cedars towering out of lush green forest,
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beaches littered with driftwood; instead, its appeal lies
in its uniqueness. It exists in
stark contrast to the thick
rainforests and coastal
seascapes that surround it, and
that is what makes it one of
the most fascinating ecosystems in the park.
The boardwalk trail takes
you around a mossy world
where stunted, gnarled trees
grow like stalks of broccoli on
an otherwise barren landscape. They look like overgrown Bonzai trees: shriveled,
deprived, but exuding a
weathered sense of nobility.
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photo: reinhard spieler
Pacific
pacific Rim
rim national Park
park
The bog’s unique vegetation is due to acidic soil
caused by water gathering in a
geological depression. Nutrients are in short supply and
therefore the bog can only
support certain types of
growth.
The short boardwalk trail
begins at the parking lot on
Wickaninnish Road. At the
trailhead there are interpretive
brochures that explain the
ecosystem corresponding with
numbered stops along the
path. The brochure explains
that bogs like this are the most
poorly-drained ecosystems in
the park. About 300 cm of
rain falls in the bog annually
and the water collects in
depressions like the one along
the Shorepine Bog trail. In the
wettest areas Sphagnum moss
grows which changes rain
water into an acid that retards
decay and deprives many
species of adequate nutrition.
upward growth and causes
them to branch sideways.
The same species of tree
grows tall and straight on the
well-drained soils of interior
British Columbia. It’s known
as lodgepole pine and grows
up to 30 metres high. In bogs
throughout the park, however,
they normally don’t grow any
taller than 5 metres.
In addition to the shorepine, the bog is also home to
many other plants that reflect
the harsh conditions of the
environment. Many are so
resilient they also thrive in
frozen, snowy sub-alpine
regions. Yellow Cedar, Crowberry, Labrador Tea, Bog Laurel, and Evergreen
Huckleberry can be found in
abundance throughout the
bog.
A number of the plants
found growing in the bog
were used for a variety of purThe most obvious mem- poses by early Nuu-chahbers of the bog’s ecosystem are nulth peoples; Sedge was used
to weave fine baskets, Hucklethe stunted shorepine that
look more like mutant vegeta- berry bore a late-season fruit,
bles than trees over 300-years- and Labrador Tea provided a
flavourful drink.
old. The roots of the
shorepine have an extremely
The one constant in the
hard time absorbing the few
bog is the sphagnum moss
nutrients and minerals available in the acidic, waterlogged that covers the area. It’s a multicoloured carpet that keeps
soil, which ultimately results
the wet soil constantly acidic
in stunted growth and maland stunts the growth of all
formed limbs. The lack of
the plants in the bog.
minerals inhibits the trees’
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The bog is a delicate
environment that exists in
a complex balance; straying from the boardwalk
can undo years of development so hikers are
asked to keep to the trail.
The wooden boardwalk
rests on top of the bog’s
surface, no supporting
posts were driven into the
sphagnum and park officials strive to keep human
impact on the bog at a
minimum.
The trail is located
about 16km south of
Tofino. On the Pacific
Rim Highway turn at the
Wickaninnish turn-off
and continue for about 2
kms until you see the sign
for the Shorepine Bog trail.
The trail is an easy loop
1km long and takes about
20 minutes to complete.
Sean McCarroll is an
outdoor and travel writer
from Nova Scotia.
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The Salmon Forest
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by Colin Rombough
rowing up on the
prairies, it was hard
to imagine anything towering much
higher than a couple of
hay bales loaded on a tractor. So, you can imagine
how completely awestruck
I was the first time I
stepped into a ‘Wet Coast’
temperate rainforest. The
trees were more gigantic
than anything I had ever
encountered. Life seemed
to ooze from every nook
and cranny; even the wet
heavy air seemed alive.
The forest sparked an
innate awareness that even
the most inconspicuous
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packages of life played an
important role in the creation
of the forest. That first experience initiated a lasting connection and instilled in me a
desire to learn as much as I
possibly could about this
amazing place. Along my path
of discovery I have learned
many amazing things about
our Pacific temperate rainforest, but I think by far the most
fascinating story is that of how
the salmon feed the forest.
While we play in the surf
and sun, a mass of nutrients
and energy is quietly and
inconspicuously being gathered far offshore. Thousands
of salmon are scouring the
waters for morsels of food to
help fuel their impending
journey to the rivers. Slowly
and methodically the salmon
return to the land. They gather
in huge numbers at the river
mouths waiting for the fall
rains. The rivers swell, and the
salmon head inland, marking
the beginning of a smorgasbord for all the creatures of the
forest. Some of the salmon are
prematurely plucked from the
streams and rivers, while others successfully make it to the
spawning grounds to sow the
seeds of the next generation.
Regardless of their success or
failure, they are all ultimately
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fated to be consumed by the
forest. The salmon carcass
feast brings food and nutrients
for as many as 20 vertebrate
species, countless insects and
worms, and of course the
young salmon in the streams.
Even animals that we think of
as strictly herbivores, like elk
and deer, partake in the feast!
It is not hard to imagine how
animals profit from the huge
influx of salmon; after all who
doesn’t enjoy a scrumptious
salmon dinner? However, the
benefits to plants can be a little
less obvious.
The return of the salmon
to the forest marks the largest
input of fertilizer that plants
receive all year. Just like the
tomato plant in your garden,
forest plants need nutrients to
grow and flourish. In the rainforest, nitrogen (an extremely
important nutrient for
growth) is sparse. In contrast,
nitrogen is fairly ubiquitous in
the ocean. The salmon act as
one of the few bridges to the
flow of essential nutrients such
as nitrogen between the
marine and terrestrial ecosystems.
Salmon are dragged into
the forest by many different
animals, where much of their
bodies are left to rot. As the
carcasses slowly decompose all
of the precious nutrients, so
meticulously gathered far offshore, are released into the
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soil. Trees and plants take up
these nutrients, allowing periods of rapid growth. Not only
have biologists observed that
trees growing near salmon
streams are larger than those
lacking salmon inputs, but
through examination of tree
rings, they are also able to calculate with surprising precision the size of salmon runs
many centuries past. Imagine,
countless generations of
salmon feeding the forest and
creating the lush beauty that
surrounds us!
overlook the subtle
processes that maintain
this magnificent place.
Although sometimes enigmatic, the forces that
shape and sustain the forest are often as amazing as
the trees that make it up.
So next time you stand
next to an ancient cedar
staring with awe up at its
towering spires take a
moment to appreciate and
subtle beauty and connectivity of all that which
built the forest.
During my short tenure
here I, like so many Tofitians,
have eagerly adopted the
mantra of this place and have
become absolutely resolute in
my devotion to operating and
appreciating this place on
“Tofino time”. This mantra, or
at least the way I understand
it, is the concept of living at a
pace and in a place where the
natural and cultural beauty
can be fully understood and
appreciated. It is, after all, this
beauty that inspired us all to
be here.
If you would like to
learn more about the temperate rainforest, the Raincoast Interpretive Centre
will be running rainforest
walks at 2pm on Fridays
and 10am on Sundays. The
Centre, located in downtown Tofino in the Yellow
building, is open 12-5pm
Tuesday to Sunday and our
staff will be on hand to
answer any and all questions you have about the
forest or ocean.
Even so, come July, life
For more information
can begin to approach frantic.
visit our website www.tofiThe beach is packed with
nomudflats.com or call
surfers and optimistic sun(250) 725-2560.
bathers. The town is bustling
with “whale’d”, “hotspringed”, well fed, happy people.
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by David Floody
Crow Clan is as much a part of
the community as the human
residents. I don’t mind sharing
the real estate, as long as they
act like crows: trailing me and
my groceries across the Co-op
parking lot; taking noisy, badfeathered baths in my driveway’s
rain-filled pot-holes; brazenly
stealing various building scraps
from my house site for their
own nests; and even scraping
away my sleep like Satanic beltWho could have guessed I sanders with their too-early
would have the same experience wakeup caws.
with Tofino’s crow girls and
I know they’re smart.
crow boys?
A neighbour told me recently
that she and her young daughter
In the eight months I’ve
were climbing the low branches
lived here, it’s clear that the
n Charles de Lint’s fantasy
novel, Someplace To Be Flying,
the hero is saved from a
vicious mugging by two spikehaired, black leather-jacketed
‘crow girls,’ Maida and Zia.
One second, a pair of crows is
watching from above. The next
second, the two shape-shifters
materialize and make crow-bait
of the mugger with sharp black
switchblades.
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Tofino’s Crow Girls
& Crow Boys
of the amazing cedar in front of
St. Columba church (if you see
its inviting shape, you’ll understand why even adults can’t
resist it) when they saw a crow
with a round pilot biscuit land
on the midden soil nearby. It
flew off a few seconds later without the biscuit. Curious, they
examined the shell-flecked soil
and found the cracker—neatly
covered up by half a clamshell.
The perfect camouflage! You
would never have noticed it
was there.
a crow’s eye, and the crow is the
one with the switchblade beak.
One second the crows were
on the wire, and the next second
they were on the ground in front
of me. The first stabbed my
hand with its beak, the other
flew off with the peel. Yes,
‘stabbed’ is the word. There
was my scream of pain and
surprise, and actual blood.
I had been mugged!
Wiser now, I headed home
That should have been my with my groceries, trying to
lesson: food in the hand is human remember where we kept the
food; food on the ground is crow Polysporin.
food and crow bait. It’s a fundaDavid is a recent member
mental law of the Crow Clan.
of the Clayoquot Writers Group,
Sitting with my grocery bag who from now on will keep one
on a bench at Meares Park last eye on the birds.
week, I decided to peel and eat
an orange. I was enjoying the
wildly beautiful view of the
harbour and the sage-coloured
islands, with Lone Cone Mountain and the Catface Range
spread across the horizon. Yes,
there were a few crows on the
electrical wires nearby. But, like
the pilot biscuit, I never really
noticed them at the time.
I had dropped the first peel
on the ground, thinking it was
biodegradable and acceptable,
then changed my mind and
reached down for it. Don’t
believe ‘the hand is quicker than
the eye.’ This is your hand and
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by Adrienne Mason
What’s in
A Name?
Macleod
Murdo MacLeod and
Jack MacLeod ca. 1913
Alex MacLeod, Ewen MacLeod, John MacLeod (left to right)
Jack MacLeod (seated) ca. 1911
W
by Adrienne Mason
hen I began this column, I used local
place names on our
streets, charts and maps as a
starting point to explore local
history. Over the years, however, I’ve kept an ever growing
list of pioneer families with no
such landmarks named in their
honour. MacLeod was one of
the first names on my list.
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The MacLeods were among
the area’s early pioneers and
many of their descendents still
reside in Tofino yet, surprisingly, they have no permanent
physical record in the area save
MacLeod Court (451 Main
St.), owned by Ann MacLeod,
granddaughter of one of the
original MacLeods. A beach
on Vargas Island, sometimes
referred to as Sand Dune Beach
or Paradise Dunes, was called
MacLeod Beach by Harold
Monks Sr. and other early
Vargas settlers, but to date
there is no official landmark
for this large family that has
contributed so much to the
area over the past century.
The MacLeod family came
from the Isle of Raasay, which
lies between the Isle of Skye
and the mainland of Scotland.
The family of seven children
had once lived on a part of the
island with fertile soil and ample
graze land, but the landowner
wanted to make the island a
game preserve so moved the
family to the rocky, infertile
north end of Raasay. “They
lived in abject poverty,” says
descendent Ronald MacLeod.
And it became even harder
when the patriarch, Iain, died
at age 35. Still, Mrs. MacLeod
took on four other children—
orphaned relatives—to raise
and the family did the best they
could to support one another.
For some, that meant leaving
their home.
Ewen was the first of the
family to come to the west coast.
He left Scotland in 1903 and
first stopped in the Ottawa area
where he worked on a farm for
a year. The farmer offered Ewen
his daughter and some land if he
would stay, but Ewen declined
the offer and headed west instead.
By January 1905, Ewen was in
Victoria and signed onto the
roster of the sealing schooner
Carlotta G. Cox. En route to the
Pribilof Islands off the Russian
coast, the schooner called in at
Clayoquot, as many schooners
of the era did. According to
family, Ewen was captivated by
the area, and felt it was similar
to Raasay. When the schooner
called back at Clayoquot in the
fall, Walter Dawley suggested
Ewen apply for a job as a policeman, a position he had some
experience with having served
as a constable in Glasgow for a
year and a half. Although Ewen
hadn’t been enamoured with
life as a policeman, it was employment in Clayoquot Sound,
so he applied and was accepted.
While awaiting his official
appointment, Ewen joined his
older brother, Murdo, in Bamfield. Murdo had made his way
to Canada in 1906. The brothers helped build a road to the
cable station but before long
Ewen was settling into a small
cabin at Clayoquot, with office
and jailhouse attached. In
Settling Clayoquot, nephew Ian
remembers his uncle Ewen as a
very powerful man who excelled
at sports, especially feats of
strength. He recalled, “[Ewen]
could jump 22 feet, 11 inches
and he could stand with his
two hands in his pockets and
jump on a chair.” Ewen met
an American girl, Mabel, who
was visiting family friends at the
Mosquito Harbour sawmill on
Meares Island. They
were married in 1910.
Murdo eventually
came to Clayoquot Sound
as well, where the brothers
were joined by their
cousin Jack in 1910 and
their younger brother,
Alex in 1911. Jack had
been raised with the
MacLeod brothers and
their siblings on Raasay
after his parents died and
Jack was taken in by Mrs.
MacLeod. Jack left
Raasay as a young man,
only 13 or 14 years of age.
For years he worked on
tea clippers and ships
bound for Australia,
before joining his cousins
in Canada. (Another
MacLeod, John, also
arrived in Clayoquot
Sound about this time.
John was not related to the
MacLeod brothers or Jack,
but they had known one
another in Scotland. John
came from the Isle of
Fladda, which was connected during low tide to
Raasay. John’s sister, Julia,
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What’s in A Name? Macleod
would eventually marry
Murdo.)
Canada provided the
MacLeods with employment opportunities their
homeland could not. Soon
after they arrived, Jack
began working at the new
lifeboat station, where he
served for decades. Jack
married Jenny Grice,
daughter of another pioneering family, in 1915.
Their marriage was the
second in St. Columba
Church. Alex was employed
by the Dominion Hatchery
at Kennedy Lake for 16
months before returning to
Scotland in 1913 to marry
his sweetheart Catherine
MacLennan. (The couple
would return in 1925.)
Murdo took odd jobs for
his first few years here,
which included working
at Mosquito Harbour mill
and a stint as a road foreman. Ewen and Mabel
eventually moved to the
interior so Ewen could
take a position as Indian
Agent in the Lytton area.
Raasay, where German prisoners were held. Sadly, John
was killed in Mesopotamia.
Murdo was badly wounded
twice, at Courcellette and the
Battle of the Somme. While
recuperating in Yorkshire,
Murdo had a surprise when he
met two people from Tofino,
Lillian and Noel Garrard. Lillian was a nurse, and Noel
(who had also joined up) had
called to visit his sister. Murdo
wrote to the Garrards’ father,
Frank: “…what a surprise I
got when I met Lilly, didn’t
know she was over on this side
of the water, was awful glad to
meet them. Noel stayed on
one night and we compared
notes on various subjects, you
may be sure, some of them
very thrilling at least it seems
that way now as we have time
to reflect over the past couple
of years.”
Murdo also spent time
convalescing in Glasgow, where
a visiting cousin encouraged
him to correspond with Julia
MacLeod (John MacLeod’s
sister), who was then working
as a nanny in Australia. His
letters must have made an
Alex, John and Murdo impact: Julia and Murdo were
joined up for service in the married in Victoria July 15, 1919.
First World War. Alex, then Murdo soon began working as
in Scotland, worked on a a fisheries officer and the couple
raised two sons, both of whom
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Charles was a fisherman (“and
an incredible piper, too” recalls
his brother Ronald), and Ronald
became Director General of
Pacific and Fresh Water Fisheries.
He also started the Salmonid
Enhancement Program.
Alex and Catherine
returned to Canada in 1925
with five children in tow: Ian
(8), Murdo (6), twins Donald
and Norman (3), and Mary
(1½). Catherine was also about
six months pregnant. The
MacLeods landed in Montreal
and then made the difficult
journey by train across the
country, during a hot summer.
Daughter Islay, recalls her
mother telling her that by the
time they hit the prairies, she’d
had enough. “Mother just
wanted to go back home,” she
said. “It took her years to get
over it. She told me she used to
cry every time the Maquinna
went south.” Margaret was
born soon after they settled in
Tofino, and Islay followed in
1927. The family settled near
the water, close to where the
Naachaks Adventure Centre
sits today. A boardwalk connected their home and others
along the water’s edge to the
Lifeboat Station. As with other
pioneer women, Catherine’s
life was one of heavy labour.
“She never, ever stopped
working,” recalled Islay.
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Alex began to work for
the Department of Transport
at the lifeboat station in 1925,
first as a leading seaman, and
then as coxswain, a position
he held for 21 years.
Alex left detailed notes of
his crew’s activities over the
years, including entries such
as this one from 1927:
Clayoquot Sound. “My father
had great respect for native
people,” said Ronald. “He saw
that native people here were
subject to similar conditions
as the MacLeods had been in
Scotland. Our family had been
isolated in terms of language
and displaced from land, too.
He sympathized with them and
respected them and demanded
the same of his children.”
Distress call, 13; hospital trips,
4; attending to lighthouse,
69 times; attending to navigation lights, 40 times; sailing
practice, 3 times; trial runs, 13;
logging and cutting firewood
for station, 16 times; miscellaneous, 11. Miles run, 2,621;
hours at sea, 438.35 minutes.
Today, the MacLeods and
their descendents are remembered for many things – their
service with the lifeboat station
(and subsequent Coast Guard),
their fishing and boating skills,
their athletic ability (particularly Murdo Jr., who had a
black belt in judo and taught
this skill to many young chilAt the end of his career
Alex was awarded the Imperial dren), their military service in
Service medal in honour of his both world wars, and, like so
many pioneering women and
years of loyal service.
men, their perseverance and
determination to make Canada
Alex’s daughter, Mary
Hardy, remembers her parents and Tofino home.
and relatives laughing and jokAdrienne Mason is a
ing in Gaelic when they got
together. “When we asked what Tofino writer. You can reach her
was so funny, they would say at [email protected]
that it’s never as funny in English.” The children were taught
English and were not encouraged to speak Gaelic. The family was proud of its roots, but
also ready to embrace and
contribute to life in Canada.
Ronald MacLeod thinks that
his family’s experiences in
Scotland affected how they
related to the native people in
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by Shirley Langer
arilyn is a sophisticated and experienced woman
who takes the word community more seriously than
most of us. That’s because
she knows from experience
the wealth of human
resources residing in every
community—the people
with talent and ability available to offer their talent for
the interest and benefit of
the wider community. For
twenty-three years, Marilyn
was Events Manager of
Community & Educational
Programs at Harbourfront
in Toronto. Managing a
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Tofino Profile:
Marilyn Brewer
job was to reach out to the cultural communities of that huge
multicultural city, and give individuals and groups the opportunity to showcase their culture for
their fellow citizens. Over those
twenty-three years, she saw
Harbourfront’s modest programs grow on the reclaimed
site of an industrial wasteland
to become an internationally
renowned cultural center. Over
the years she has worked with
First Nations, South Asians,
Italians, Portuguese and dozens
of other ethnic groups in presenting their artists, their crafts.
Amazingly, these cultural
events are always gratis to the
public.
When I ask Marilyn to
comment on some of the programs or Harbourfront festivals
that were the most memorable
for her, her first example revealed
her humanist character. She
described an extraordinary
Harbourfront event called
The Earth Spirit Festival. In
1988, the Canadian government formerly apologized to
Japanese Canadians for systematic persecution during
the Second World War, and
provided some financial compensation for their losses of
property. The Japanese Canadian Association decided to
use some of the redress money
to celebrate their cultural her-
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itage by exploring similarities
between their heritage and
that of Canada’s First Nations.
Marilyn then talked about
Harbourfront’s School By The
Water, a science program for
elementary and secondary
school kids through guided
exploration of Toronto’s
waterfront. For several years,
Marilyn collaborated with
Peter Gabriel’s organization,
womad, the World of Music,
Art and Dance. In fact, Harbourfront presented the first
womad festival in North
America. And then there were
twenty-three Canada Days at
Harbourfront to plan.
You could say Marilyn’s
passion is presenting artists and
events to the public. “On reflection,” says Marilyn, “I think it
is observing the exchange that
takes place between artist and
audience that I find the most
gratifying. It’s upsetting to see
how often funding is cut from
arts programs, as though the
arts aren’t important, or even
necessary.”
another path. She interviewed
for the job at Harbourfront,
mentored by an individual
who “opened my eyes to the
depth and breadth of community, and the importance of
giving community a voice.”
When she retired in 2002, she
wasted no time in returning to
Tofino and Clayoquot Sound.
She first visited in 1982 with her
then four year old daughter,
Jennifer, after reading about
Pacific Rim National Park.
“I was seeking ocean, coastline
and natural beauty,” she says.
“The attraction was immediate, and after that, I visited
Tofino every few years.”
Once a resident, it’s no
surprise that Marilyn naturally
gravitated toward involvement
with the Pacific Rim Arts
Society, known as pras. Did
she think a small festival could
be organized in 2004 with a
budget of $10,000, pras wanted
to know? Marilyn accepted the
challenge, and the result was a
small but excellent festival.
Some of the performers were
The Borealis String Quartette,
Celso Machado, and horn
Marilyn’s original career
choice was performing opera. player, Mike Herriot. This year,
She began singing while very pras wanted to do something
young, studied at the Univer- special, it being pras 20th
sity of Toronto Opera School Anniversary. So for the first
time, in addition to wonderand sang with the Canadian
Opera Company for three sea- ful music, tthe festival will
present a theatrical experience
sons. Losing her motivation
and direction while dealing
featuring First Nations performer, Margo Kane, celebrated
with one of life’s lessons, she
decided eventually to follow
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aboriginal theater. Ms.
Kane’s company, Full
Circle First Nations Performance, will perform Confessions of an Indian Cowboy.
At this writing, Marilyn and
her colleague Daysi Tattersall
are occupied with a myriad of
organizational details. “Funding is always a challenge,” says
Marilyn, “often coming through
late, often making it necessary
to confirm bookings at the very
last minute.” Nevertheless,
Marilyn Brewer seems unflappable. What else would you
expect from a pro with 23 years
experience?
I probe Marilyn’s feelings
about not having followed the
path of performance in opera.
“I do miss singing. I do have
regrets. The human voice is an
extraordinary instrument inside
us, capable of conveying emotion so wonderfully. And what
a glorious way of life performing
opera would have been! But I
feel fortunate to have worked
in the arts. Artists are fascinating because they are creators
and often visionaries. Working with them enabled me to
express my creative side.”
time with my daughter and
learn more about her work in
the field of healing arts.”
What about your life here in
Tofino, I ask? Has moving here
fulfilled your expectations?
Marilyn answers carefully.
“The community of Tofino,
the place as a whole, is unique,
very special. I would like to see
the community come together
to articulate a vision for the
future of our village. The community would need to put in
place strong leadership to carry
out and sustain that vision.”
Spoken like a true community person.
Shirley Langer describes
herself as a woman about town
with a well developed civic consciousness.
Is there life beyond organizing arts festivals, I want to
know? “I’d like to explore the
possibilities of retirement,”
Marilyn replies. “I’ve always
been very interested in textile
art. I’d like to travel with friends.
I definitely want to spend more
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TfinTime .cm
“Tofino Timeless” is a serial story written by the Clayoquot Writers Group.
Previous chapters are on-line at www.tofinotime.com.
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A horror movie is
being filmed in Tofino.
The plot: evil merfolk try
to breed with townspeople
and steal their souls.
Location scout, Danny
Cubit has joked that he’s
here “to fulfill prophecy,”
but since then the locals
have been acting strange.
The cute girl, Shell,
has been leading Danny
around by the nose and
was last seen leaping out
of his car near the Eik
Street cedar tree.
The strange blonde
psychic woman, Velella,
keeps giving him long,
suspicious looks.
Even the boat driver,
Mussel, seems to have
something against Danny.
Recently Mussel swerved
his boat suddenly, causing
Danny to fall head first
into the freezing water.
This combined with a
near-miss car accident
has got Danny wondering what’s real life and
what’s fiction.
To top it all off,
he found a seeminglyancient inscription on
the Eik Street cedar tree:
He is come to repossess.
For the first time in his
life he feels as if he’s in
the movie, not behind
the scenes as usual.
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Last seen, Danny
was warming up and
cooling off in the tub
at his hotel room.
chapter seven
by Joanna Streetly
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lease,” begged Shell. “I need to know.”
“And I’ve told you,” replied Velella, “I don’t know anything.
I’m only an intermediary.” She stared out of her floathouse
window at the waters of Wettening Cove.
“But you believe in the merfolk, surely that means they
trust you?”
“All it means is this: I receive their signals. It’s no different
than overhearing a conversation on the vhf radio.”
“Well, what have you overheard so far?”
“It’s not like that, Shell. It’s… vague.”
“I don’t care if it’s vague. You heard what Mussel said: when
Danny fell in the water, the merfolk wanted him. They recognized him! For a guy like Mussel to say that, it’s gotta be real.”
Velella sighed. She rapped her Tarot deck on the table,
flinging out the old energy. Then she began to shuffle.
“Here’s the legend: Long before our time, Poseidon and
Amphitrite married and gave birth to Triton. Amphitrite was
said to be especially fond of this area and Triton came with her
when she visited. He fell in love with a local girl, a mortal, and
they had many children. No one knows what happened to Triton,
or Amphitrite, but their descendants here still wait for them.
Meanwhile the population is dwindling, their habitat is threatened and they are on the brink of extinction.”
“Of course!” breathed Shell, “Amphitrite Point Lighthouse… .”
“Switch to present day. This guy Danny shows up here
with a film about—of all things—merfolk. We all get a vibe
from him and the merfolk sense it too. Heck, even Mussel feels
it! Danny even finds the ancient writing on the Eik Street tree.
So, maybe the guy does have merblood, but if he’s The One
they’re waiting for, then it’s going to be messy. Because Danny’s
boss, Steve Nash, is bad news. The merfolk will be toast by the
time Nash leaves here. Their habitat will be ruined and their
reputation, too. Of course they want Danny! Whether he’s The
One or not, they need him on their side.”
Velella cut the deck into three piles. Then she put the cards
back together.
“Do you really believe in merfolk, Velella?” asked Shell.
“I believe what I feel, when I feel it. I also believe that
there are things that we can never know. Now, turn over the
top card. We’ll only choose one today.”
Shell blinked at the image of the trump. Number xvi,
The Tower. Blackness. Lightning. Flames. People burning and
falling. Destruction. Turmoil. Change.
***
Danny Cubit, location scout, has finally drifted into a
sound sleep. His bed at the lodge is soft and warm; the stress
and weirdness of his few days in Tofino have fallen away from
him. For now, there is peace. Between the sheets, his body
seems to float, unaffected by gravity.
As he floats, he finds that he is underwater again. But unlike
his earlier dunking, this is pleasant, natural. He meanders along,
exploring an underwater pathway through the rocks and seaweed.
He swishes his tail from side to side. Huh! He has a tail, just like
a fish. The path is beautiful, gleaming with light and colour.
He barely notices how deep he has gone. Then, up ahead, he spies
an opening. A cave! He pokes his head through the entrance,
expecting darkness but surprised by light—little jewels of colour,
sparkling and flashing, leading him along. His webbed hands
propel him as he swivels and turns, delighting in his prowess as
a swimmer.
In the centre of the cave, he discovers the source of the light.
A sea anemone the size of a car. Amethyst-coloured light pulses
from the gently undulating tentacles—each one as tall as Danny.
Lines of light dance across the floor of the cave like a looselywoven net. The water is so clear that Danny experiences a
moment of vertigo. Looking up, he sees the ceiling of the cave
swirling with patterns—a thing of beauty. He stares and stares.
Suddenly, the patterns make sense to him. Not pictures.
Writing. Each swirl is full of information. As the patterns
sharpen and take form in his head, Danny finds himself reading
them like text.
We are the keepers of the Life of the Ocean, part of the neverending current of Life. We live to maintain Mother Ocean and all
creatures and plants in her protection.
All at once, Danny feels himself being dragged backwards,
out of the cave. The images start to blur. As his body is pulled
away he glimpses one last pattern. He shivers as he makes out
the words.
He is come to repossess.
In his mind’s eye, he sees again the inscription on the magnificent Eik Cedar. He struggles, a great noise filling his ears.
He thrashes left and right expecting to feel water; instead, he feels
the soft covers of the bed. His eyes blink open and he sees his
hotel room. The ringing in his ears goes on and on, until—
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finally—he reaches into the
semi-darkness and picks up
the phone.
“D-D-Danny,” he croaks.
“Goddamn you Danny!
Where you been? It’s like you’re
on another planet these days.”
It’s Steve Nash.
He sounds pumped.
“Look, Danny, I seen that
tree you told me about. You
done good, boy! The chains
and cable are just perfect for
the battle scene. All we gotta
do is lose the greenery, make
it sinister. Lop the branches
off—leave it stripped bare.
Man, it’s perfect! You ever run
a chainsaw before, boy?”
Danny’s chest constricts.
His stomach begins to heave.
The Eik Street Cedar! The
inscription. His dream—was it
really a dream? Suddenly all he
can think of is the tree, protecting it from danger.
“Nooooo!” he screams.
“Keep your hands off that tree!”
Too late. Dial tone hums
in Danny’s ears.
Nash has already hung up.
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the August issue of TofinoTime
Magazine…
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Gardening in July
I
by Trina Mattson
’m going to say it again,
Horsetails are driving us all
crazy, the methods that seem
to work to get rid of them are,
increase drainage and aeration
to your garden, improve soil
structure, lime if possible being
careful around rhododendrons
and other acidic loving plants,
fertilize, fertilize, fertilize. I did
notice this year, the load of soil
we had in over previous years,
in the garden, grew horsetails,
didn’t actually think about were
they came from until, I talk
with another landscaper, who
got soil from the same place,
anyway, in my garden, horsetails came up like crazy, in pots
and planters same soil, no horsetail. Why do you think this is?
because the concentration of
fertilizer is higher in the pots,
and woo hoo no horsetail.
Some things not to do: Do not
cover with plastic and mulch
this is just a temporary solution,
weed killers only kill the roots
just so far below the surface,
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then they come back up again.
So on with July, fertilise your
rhodos, azaleas and camellias
one last time before the end of
the month, use a low nitrogen
fertilizer, so as to not put on
too much new growth, that
may not be able to harden of
before winter sets in. Be sure to
stake your tomatoes, and any
tall growing plants before they
fall over and cause and damage
to the plant. Check roses and
other plants for aphids and
whitefly. And because we have
had such a wet spring, watch
for black spot on roses and other
plants.
A summer application of
weed and feed for the lawn is
a good idea, if you use lime as
well; remember to wait 2 weeks
between applications of lime
and fertilizer. Trim back any
spent perennials, and if bedding
plants are getting leggy, there’s
no problem with trimming
them back, this will only make
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the foliage thicker, and then
put out even more blossoms.
There is still time to seed some
vegetables for mid summer to
fall harvest, arugula, beans,
beets, broccoli, cabbage carrots,
cilantro, endive, fennel, kale,
collards, kohlrabi, lettuce, oriental greens, onions, pea’s spinach,
swiss chard, turnips. Some
throughout the month, and
some before mid month, many
of these can also be sown in
fall for harvesting during the
winter months, especially with
a cold frame or green house.
Ponds are very active at this
point, and probably green, the
green water doesn’t hurt the
fish unless it’s so thick a spoon
stands up, but if it bothers you,
chances are it just needs more
surface coverage to shade the
water, this usually clears things
up, try lilies, hyacinths and duck
weed or fairy moss, for a 75%
coverage. There is still time to
be planting, before the heat of
the summer hits us, with all the
rain in June, some bedding
plants took a hit, but replacements are still available, many
perennials are just coming into
bloom and trees and shrubs are
putting on their summer coat.
I hope you checked your garden beds for bare spots for
bulbs etc, as bad as it is, spring
flowering bulbs are ordered
and on their way soon. And no,
you plant spring flowering bulbs
in the fall not in the spring.
Start to get your Amaryllis ready
for blossoming by Christmas
Aaaaggggg!!!!! Put it away in
a dark place and no water til
the end of September.
Watch out for slugs, there
are some viciously large ones
right now, and please if you see
one on the side of the road and
have to stop and take pictures,
pull completely off the road,
do not get out of your vehicle,
do not feed it, it will just come
back for more, do not try to
pet it, it will slime you.
Happy Summer
Trina Mattson runs the
Ordinary Corner Nursery in
Tofino.
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15-minute Yoga
by Natalie Rousseau
T
his simple sequence
of yoga poses can be
practiced by anyone as
a quick morning routine or
as a way to release the work
day. You will benefit whether
you’re tight from swinging
a hammer, tense from too
much computer work, sore
from all that paddling, or
simply want to find more
energy and focus. Read
through the whole sequence
first, then roll out a mat (or
practice on a carpet) and
give it a try. Focus on keeping
the breath steady rather than
getting the poses “perfect”.
Repeat from beginning to
end 3-6 times, finish with a
few quiet breaths in a seated
posture, taking the time to
notice the way you feel
before you get on with
your day. Enjoy!
belly on your thighs stretching
your arms out in front. Allow
your forehead to rest on the floor
or on top of crossed forearms if
necessary. Cultivate a deep even
breath that is drawn through the
back of your throat, mouth closed.
Stay here for five to ten breaths.
Bidalasana (Cat’s Pose)
Extended Cat
As you inhale move your heart
forward and roll your tailbone
up. Extend through the front of
the spine drawing your shoulders back and gazing up lightly.
Bujanghasana (Cobra Pose) Rounded Cat
Slide forward onto your belly,
feet hip width apart and fingertips beneath your shoulders.
Allow your forehead to rest on
the floor. On an inhale breath
lift ribcage, shoulders, and head
off the floor, keeping pelvis down
and buttocks relaxed to avoid
compression in the low back.
Gaze ahead and relax shoulders
away from your ears. Hold for
three deep breaths expanding
your heartspace on every inhale.
Exhale to bring forehead back
to the ground.
On your exhale breath round
your spine, relaxing your neck
completely. Press down through
your palms to open the space
between your shoulderblades
and draw your navel to the
back of your spine. Inhale again
and move back to Extended
Cat Pose.
Tuck your toes under and
Begin on all fours, feet flat move up to all fours. Spread
behind you. Exhale and pull your fingers wide.
your hips back over your
heels. Rest your chest and
Adho Mukha Svanasana
(Downward Facing Dog Pose)
Balasana (Child’s Pose)
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On your exhale breath lift
your knees and pull your hips
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back. Keep your arms straight,
your fingers spread wide, and
lift your shoulders away from
your ears. Gaze back towards
your knees, spine long, belly
hollow, and neck relaxed. Press
your thighs back and draw your
heels down, lengthening your
calves. Don’t fret if your heels
don’t reach the ground yet, with
practice they will. If your legs are
very tight you’ll want to keep
your knees bent to maintain the
length in your spine. Find the
balance between push and pull
in Dog Pose. Hold for 3-5 breaths.
back to Dog Pose by bringing
the palms down on an exhale
breath, lifting the hips on an
inhale breath and stepping the
front foot back on an exhale
breath. Repeat lunge on the left
side and move back to Dog
Pose again.
Adho Mukha Svanasana
Hold Dog pose for 3-5 breaths.
As you inhale draw your hips
back keeping shoulders broad.
With the exhale breath firm your
thighs to lengthen the backs of
your legs.
Anjaneyasana (Lunge Pose)
Look to your palms and as you
inhale step your right foot forward. Relax your knee and foot
to the floor as you exhale. Fingertips rest on the floor.
Balasana
Finish in Child’s Pose, breathing
into the back body. Relax shoulders and soften your lower back.
Repeat sequence from here as
many times as you like.
Arms UpNatalie Rousseau, eryt.
Inhale and sweep your arms up
lengthening out of both side
For questions or more info,
waists. Keep arms shoulderwidth call Natalie at 725-8363 or email
apart and gaze ahead, tailbone [email protected]
soft. Hold 3-5 breaths. Move
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All signs
Welcome the whales, the colour
extravaganza of mid-Summer,
and the big fat Ripe Corn Moon!
Dates to mark on your calendar
this month include the extra-wish
powered New Moon following
Friday the 13th, and the 17th,
when a most unusual conjunction
adds zap to your zip. Read Scorpio
for deeper depths and Pisces for
a fresh start and all the other
signs for a full meal deal!
Aries
April 20 — May 19
You’re in the caterpillar
stage of butterfly love
and things are beginning to look serious. Questions
like how many offspring or bottles
of good wine can you handle and
can you really get away with
wearing that leopard-skin thong
for one more season are weighing
heavily upon you now, all the more
reason to kick up your heels, look
up, go forth and gaze at the Moon
til you lose your senses ! Inhabit
your days , blow open your doors,
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YOUR HOROSCOPE
by Karedwyn Bird
March 20 — April 19
Small shifts in perception can awaken
awesome powers and
potentials, so learn greater control
of your mind from the inside out at
this time. While you’re at it, drop in
to see what condition your condition is in... in physical fitness, the
goals are strength, flexibility and
endurance–in mental fitness, the
goals are the same. Now, while the
wide world is fresh and green, nurture both body and mind, capitalising on the midmonth New Moon
to galvanise possibilities into
existence.
Taurus
July 07
’
and let summer in, using the New
Moon magic at midmonth to dream
yourself some beautiful wings.
Gemini
May 20 — June 20
Get a start on the day before
it gets a start on you this
month—an early walk, a cup
of tea, a salutation to the Sun. Selflove and celebration top this month’s
To Do list... eat flowers in your salad
and inhale them on your walks. Mix up
a potion of Ylang-ylang essential oil
and sesame oil for sun and sea water
counter-balancing. The current backwash of memories and insecurities
yields valuable insights you can start
putting into effect after the 9th, when
Mercury goes direct.
Cancer
June 21 — July 21
Your timing is awesome!
Imagine being born in the
dead of winter when it’s
forty below and no one wants to get
out of bed, nevermind come to your
birthday bash! This is why it’s important
to be nice to Capricorns, your astrological opposites and probably your
boss at work—Capricorns are born
when the world is freezing, and you
are born when the world’s a picnic!
As you celebrate your birthday this
time round, give yourself the gift of
greater self-knowledge by observing
the tenor of the season you came to
the Light in. Make a ritual of wishes
and intentions for the beginning of
your solar year when both the Sun and
Moon join in your sign at mid-month.
Leo
July 22 — August 22
This is the final forever and
last time for 29 years that
both the Sun and Saturn will
be in your castle of a constellation at
the same time. Carpe Diem! For a full
month starting Sunday the 22nd, a powerful foundation of self-consolidation
comes via creative, passionate pursuits:
your orders are to get serious about
having fun! Up until the 22nd, the Sun
shines down upon us (we hope!) from
the sign of Cancer and the emotional
waters will be at full freshet. There’s a
very nice New Moon on the 14th;
announce your plans to take over
your world to the fertile darkness.
Make your move 3 days later—the
time it takes for seeds to sprout.
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Virgo
Aug. 23 — Sept. 21
Each time the tide rises, you
lose a fraction of an ounce
in weight, regaining it again
as the tide falls. The earth beneath your
feet rises six inches and the atmosphere
bulges many miles. This month, besides
being slowly in and exhaled by the universe in general, two planets in your
immediate vicinity, cosmically speaking,
will take turns spinning you backwards
into the heart of things, re-realising
what has brought you to where you
are now. Take some time to expand
your awareness of the bigger picture
and pattern you are part of, and let
it guide you to where you aim to go.
Libra
Sept. 22 — Oct. 22
Venus is lolligaging in Leo
until the midmonth dark of
the Moon, so make hay while
the Sun shines. After all that foolishness,
a sublime sense of self-possession and
common sense overtakes you, and this
will last all summer! Mid-month hosts
a New Moon in the sign of the cosmic
womb, Cancer—begin something big
that day—committed focus reaps rewards.
Scorpio
Oct. 23 — Nov. 21
Friday the 13th is followed
by a Dark Moon in the fertile
sign of Cancer and this is one
of those once-in-a-lifetime events you
should definitely take note of. Reasons
being that only three days after this
New Moon—the time it takes for seeds
to sprout in the dark—a most distinguished conjunction takes place when
Pluto, the cosmic force of regeneration,
lines up with the Galactic Centre, the
nexus of our cosmos. This only occurs
once every 240 years and I can’t remember what happened last time—but it
sounds like an opportune time to
experiment with flying leaps!
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Sagittarius
Nov. 22 — Dec. 21
Since early April your ruling
planet appears to be moving
in reverse, and so, probably,
have you. But this is normal and it’s
all part of the grand plan, so take a
deep breath and surrender… you have
until August 8th to internalise your best
ideas and let things sink in—ask yourself what Heaven is to you and how long
you wanna wait—“You’ve got to have
a dream. If you don’t have a dream how
you gonna make a dream come true?”
(The Musical South Pacific).
Capricorn
Dec. 22 — Jan. 19
July is born in the waning
light of a Capricorn Full
Moon. Thus begins a lunar
cycle in which the first half of July is
good for contemplation and release.
You can’t shake hands with a closed fist,
says Indira Ghandi, and you can’t do
much else with it either. Let go of
ineffective strategies and familial
patterns during this time and while
you’re at it, get a suntan! Free Vitamin
D and cute bikini lines! Be on the
lookout for party possibilities the
weekend of the 22nd, when the Sun
roars into Leo and everyone will be
hankering for some fun.
Aquarius
performance on the 29th, a
nice date to bridge the divide
between you and your dreams.
Pisces
Feb. 18 — March 19
There is more to you
than you think. Of
the 100 trillion cells
composing your composition,
only ten percent are human. To
the other 900 trillion, you are
the host planet. So, since it’s
summer n’all, why not take time
to make friends with your whole
world ? Establish a benign dictatorship and take charge of your
internal state of affairs—“If you
want to live, shout it out and
change any habits or patterns
that are not in synchronicity
with this desire. Let it resonate
throughout your entirety”
(DreamHealer, by Adam). The
night of the 14th is a perfect
time for this.
Jan. 20 — Feb. 17
Nurdle and moosh! The Sun’s
in Cancer until the 22nd and
Mom’s the word til then with
emotional tides running high. Meanwhile a conjunction between Venus, the
goddess of love and art, and Saturn,
ringmaster of hard work, will see you
learning lessons in delayed gratification over the next little while. Your
rewards, when they come, will be
substantial anchoring of your artistic
talents and ardent affections. The
Full Moon in your sign reaches peak
Karedwyn Bird is an
artist and astrologer who
lives offshore from Tofino in
her floating studio. You can
email her at rainsongstudio
@hotmail.com or call her at
(250) 726-5132
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CMMUNITY CALNDr
JULY
Vinyasa Yoga
JULY
Vinyasa Yoga
mon
wed
Mon & Wed
6:30-8pm
with Natalie Rousseau
Cost: $10 per class
Mon & Wed
6:30-8pm
Cost: $10 per class
JULY
fri
Preschool
Playgroup
mon
wed
for Seniors
Clayoquot Field Station
Wed & Fri
5-6:30pm
Mondays 11am-12:30pm Free!
Cost: $10 per class
This Stretch/Tai-Chi class
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Power Vinyasa
Flow Yoga
Saturdays 11am-12:30pm
tue
Flow Yoga
Level 1-2
Solwood
Tuesdays
6:30- 8pm
All levels welcome
JULY
Bingo
thu
Tofino Legion Basement
Thursdays
7:30 pm
fri
sat
Come out to the Tofino
Botanical Gardens to
learn what it takes to be
a plant hunter! Meet at
the pavilion in the Children's Garden. Children
must be accompanied by
a parent or guardian.
South Chestermans
Mondays
6-8pm
Girls ages 8 and up
Tue & Fri
8:30-9:15am
Cost: 6/$35,
$6 drop in
Leah Austin instructs this
low impact, cardio exercise.
Ladies auxiliary bingo,
cash prizes
JULY
Fridays
11:30 am (Look for the yellow flag)
Thursdays
10am
$5 donation
call 725-3713
Hey kids! Meet us at
Mackenzie Beach and
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fri
Restorative Gentle
discover the wonders of
wed Hatha Yoga
the seashore through
Fridays
6:30-8pm games and activities
Wednesdays 10-11:30am For more information
with the staff of the
All levels welcome
Raincoast Interpretive
call 725-8363
Centre (RIC)
Suitable for people
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Meditation
recovering from injury.
JULY
Twilight Flow Yoga
Tofino Public
Market
Village Green
Saturdays
10am-2pm
Come and check out
local arts, crafts and creations.
JULY
sat
Intertidal
Investigators
Mackenzie Beach
(Look for the yellow flag)
Saturdays
2pm
$5 donation
Young
Naturalists
$6, Ages 6+
Through games, crafts
and fun outdoor activities discover this diverse
and beautiful area we
share. Call 725-2560 for
info.
Please bring your own
equipment, little kids
must have adult superJULY
Vinyasa Yoga
vision while surfing.
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thu
Restorative
The goal of the surf club JULY
tue Flow Yoga
Tonquin
is to motivate women
fri Rainforest Walk
Thursdays 11am-12:30pm and girls to get out and
Tuesdays 11am-12:30pm Instructed by Natalie
surf, learning from each Tonquin Beach Parking Lot
2pm
other and from Surf Sis- Fridays
Rousseau
$5 donation
ter
instructors.
call 725-8363
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Story Time
Discover the wonders of
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fri
Aquafit
Intertidal
the coastal temperate
tue
thu Investigators
Tofino Library
rainforest with an interMackenzie Beach
MacKenzie Beach Pool
331 Mains St.
preter from the RIC.
Linking movement to
breath.
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Hey kids! Meet us at
Mackenzie Beach and
fri
discover the wonders of
Meet at the RIC
the seashore through
Swell Time
451 Main St
games and activities
mon Surf Club for Girls Fridays
10-11:30am with the staff of the ric.
All levels welcome Suit- is geared for seniors with For more information
different levels of fitness. call 725-8363
able for beginners For
Register at 725-3229.
more info 266-1212
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Plant Hunters
Fridays
10:30am-noon Fridays
10-11:30am
By Donation
For ages 8 - 12 yrs
Opportunity for Parents Free with garden admission
Vinyasa style flow class
Vinyasa style flow class that can be modified for and Tots to get out and
burn off some energy.
that can be modified for all levels.Call 725-8363
Kids must have adult to
all levels.Call 725-8363
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accompany them.
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Level 1
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Tonquin
Rainforest Walk
Tonquin Beach Parking Lot
Sundays
10am
$5 donation
Discover the wonders of
the Coastal Temperate
Rainforest with an interpreter from the RIC.
JULY
Roots & Shoots
sun
Sundays
10-11:30am
For ages 4 - 7 yrs
Free with garden admission
Join our garden naturalists for a fun and intersat
active garden program
Village Green Gazebo
for children aged 4-7 at
Saturday
12:30pm Tofino Botanical Garfree!
dens. Meet at the pavilion in the Children's
Kids join us for a puppet show or at our activ- Garden Children must
ity table for some great be accompanied by a
parent or guardian.
educational fun!
Weather dependent!
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Gazebo
fri
Fridays
8-8:30pm
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Tough City
Skate Comp
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Movie & Beer
Talk
JULY
Movie Night
incredible true story
tion, promote cooperabased on Dan Millman’s tion skills as well as
Tuff Cith Skate Park
best selling novel. “an
greater self confidence.
Sun July 1
Tues July 3
7:30pm Mon July 9
8pm inspiring film that could
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Registration
10am Ucluelet UAC Hall
7 vs 7 Soccer
change lives.” – Sting
The Great Warming,
Tournament
Juniors
11am Wed July 4
7:30pm Filmed in eight countries
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Wickaninnish School Field
Girls
12pm Charlie Russell will be
Adventure Camp
on four continents,
Novice
1pm present for the showing
Sat & Sun
July 28/29
endorsed by dozens of the
Intermediate
2pm of Jeff and Sue Turner's
$40/team entrance fee
world’s leading scientists, at Village Green Gazebo
Advanced
3pm 50 min documentary
July 16-20
9am-3pm With prizes, trophies,
The Great Warming is
referees, and concessions
The third annual, come film about Charlie's work the most factually accu- A new exciting action
in Russia reintroducing rate, visually stunning
and compete or cheer
packed adventure every on site, this tourney is
and wide-ranging proorphaned grizzly cubs
bound to be a doozie!
on the skaters.
day. Activities include
duction
ever
mounted
into
the
wild.
Charlie
Teams must field at least
out
of
town
trips
to
the
JULY
Canada Day
about this complex, fas- wave pool, rock climb- 3 players of each sex at
and local bear experts
Celebration
cinating subject.
will be present for dising, hiking, swimming, all times. All ages and all
Village Green
cussion after the film.
surfing and an overnight skill levels welcome.
JULY
Sun July 1
11am
The Tofino Open
Teams must register
camp out.
JULY
Tuff City 3 on 3
with Tofino Parks and
Celebrate Canada’s
JULY
B-Ball Tournie
Village Green Tennis Courts
Yoga Workshop
Recreation at 725-3229.
birthday with the comVillage Green B-Ball Courts Sat July 14
9:30am
munity. There BBQs,
JULY
$5 entrance fee
Movie Night
beergardens, live music Sat July 7
$20/team entrance fee
Sat July 21
and fireworks in the
Pull out your sneakers,
harbour at dusk.
Slam, shoot, and dribble dust of your racquet, and Cost $80
Mon July 30
8 pm
throw
on
your
whites.
in
an
action
packed
day
Join
Marion
McConnell
JULY
Art show &
Surf Double Bill!
of hoops action. This is what better way to spend E-RYT for 5 Tibetan
Concert
a summer day than
a great chance to test
Rites and the Rishikesh Shrink, Off the map on
smacking a ball around
your skills, engage in
Sequence. Contact
Canada’s Clayoquot
Mon July 2
8pm some good competition. on the hard court. [email protected] Coast, storm swells
$6 All ages
gles and doubles action, om to register.
Register by Thursday
surge onto the reefs and
beaches of Vancouver
Check out the artwork of July 5th at 725-3229 as all ages and skill levels
JULY
Movie Night
welcome. Please register
space is limited.
Island. The second film
Jack Dylan from Monin advance with tofino
from Jeremy Koreski is
treal and local artists Sarah JULY
Summer Surf Swap parks and recreation at
an in-depth look at the
Young and Jesse Deslippe.
Mon July 23
8pm surfers who call Tofino
725-3229
Featuring music by MiraSurf Sister
cle Fortress(Montreal),
Fury for the Sound: The home.
JULY
Sat July 7
9am-noon
All Ages Concert
The lofi Edition, and
Women at Clayoquot,
Boost the 12k
This powerful & inspir- The Mystic, A beautiful
Buy sell and trade
ing documentary shows surf film that’s much
boards
at
our
summer
JULY
Movie Night
8pm how a small group of
surf swap! A great place Sunday July 15
more imagery-based
$5 All ages
dedicated women activists rather than focused on
to find a great deal on
came together to protest action. The Mystic is
the perfect board you've Live music with The
Mon July 2
8pm been looking for.
about waves and travel
Butchers Hand, Neme- the clearcutting of the
local
rainforest.
and the experience of
sis(Yukon),
Tribune
Tocar y Luchar, The
JULY
All Ages Concert
surfing. The tubes in the
story of the Venezuelan
JULY
JULY
Movie Night
Gymnastics
closing minutes of this
Youth Orchestra System
Camp
film will have you
—an incredible network Tofino Community Hall
8pm Clayoquot Sound Theatre
laughing in disbelief.
of hundreds of orchestras Sunday July 8
$5 All ages
Mon July 16
8pm July 23-27
formed within most of
1-2pm
the country’s towns and Live music with Spread Peaceful Warrior, An inspi- 7-9 yrs old
2-3pm
villages, which is consid- Eagle, Whyte Hott and rational and triumphant 10-12 yrs old
ered by many to be the Boost the 12k
film about the power of $70
best music education
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system in the world.
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the beach
food & drink
The heart of any Tofino vacation has
got to be hangin’ at the beach. A good
book, some sun screen, a Frisbee and
some refreshments is all you need for
hours of relaxation and good times on
the white sand. In fact there are so
many beaches to choose from you
could be busy for weeks just discovering each and every one. Within the
Tofino district there is Tonquin,
MacKenzie, Middle, Chesterman Beach
and Cox Bay. All of these beaches
can be accessed for free. With the
purchase of a park pass all the beaches
of the Pacific Rim National Park
become available for exploring.
A day out on the water or hiking
through the forest can build a
strong appetite. Tofino has the full
range of food services to satisfy all
your needs. You would challenged to
find another town of 2000 that
offers as many choices for dining.
Many of the Tofino restaurants have
established themselves as award
winning places for fine dining. It’s
recommended to get reservations for
any of the Tofino restaurants as they
can get quite busy. Many cafés in
town provide packed lunches or
quick meals that can be very convenient for a day of adventure.
spa & wellness
artists & galleries
Tofino has quickly become the west
coast centre for bodywork, spa and
yoga activities. Choose from one of
the many wellness studios that
endeavour to create an serene atmosphere and a menu of body treatments
that will leave you feeling radiant
and renewed. Reduce pain and dissolve stress by receiving a therapeutic body treatment such as
acupuncture, massage therapy,
hydrotherapy, energy work or aromatherapy. For those looking to
maintain their yoga practice while
away from home, drop into one of the
ongoing yoga classes in town. For the
curious there are Yoga instructors
that give classes both in a private
and group environment.
Artistic expression runs strong within
the people of Tofino and Clayoquot
Sound. The Nuu-chah-nulth people,
the first nation of this area, are very
active as artists. Carving and weaving
has always been a part of their lives.
Art was integral to ceremonial displays, whaling canoes, clothing and
nearly every aspect of their days. In
recent history, the 60s, a new style of
artist expression entered the area with
the arrival of the hippies. A free and
expressive flair came out of those times
that can still be seenwithin the works
of local artists today. Within the fishing
and industrial community folk art forms
on their own developed using nautical
themes and rustic west coast looks.
There are many fine galleries and
boutiques in Tofino, showcasing a
broad range of the areas wares.
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cruises & eco-tours
children’s activities
festivals & events
Being out on the water, observing
the natural diversity and wildlife of
Clayoquot Sound is essential to truly
understanding this area. Bears, wolves,
cougars, sea lions, birds of many
species and an abundance of marine
life can be encountered. Trips of this
nature are a great alternative for people who do not wish to venture out
into the open seas, for many of them
travel the calm inlets and protected
waters. A favourite of many is venture
out in the warm evenings of summer
to catch the sunset from a floating
perspective. Many of the charter
operators allow for custom private
tours that can be designed by you
with their guidance.
Tofino has activities to keep your
youth and teens active and involved.
There many sporting activities like
surfing, kayaking or a few turns in the
skatepark. For the younger children
there are many interpretive programs
run through the park, Rainforest
Interpretive Center or Tofino's Rec
Commission. Check with the individual operators or organizations
for their youth programs.
Tofino events and festivals are legendary for their intimate settings and vibrant energy. Check
our website at www.tofinotime.com
for more info.
cultural
Food & Wine Festival
June 1-3, 2007
www.tofinofoodandwinefestival.c
om
diving
The pristine waters of Clayoquot Sound
are a divers paradise that are as good
as any in the world. The clarity of
Clayoquot's waters allow for incredible visibility. It's one of the few
places in the world where you can
readily spot a six-gill shark. There are
operators who do guided dive tours
for those that are keen to brave the
elements.
The First Nations people in the Tofino
area are the original locals. The Tla-oqui-aht, Ahousaht and Hesquiaht are
only a few of the tribes who have
called Clayoquot Sound home for
thousands of years. There are three
main First Nations communities in
the area: Esowista is located on Long
Beach, Opitsaht is on Meares Island,
just across the water from downtown
Tofino, and Ahousaht is roughly 10
miles by water from Tofino, on Flores
Island. There are a growing number of
native culture activities offered by the
local First Nations people in Tofino.
Dugout canoe trips area recent addition, and there is a beautiful trail
hosted by the Ahousaht people called
the “Walk-the-Wildside Trail”.
Whale Festival
March 17-25, 2007
www.pacificrimwhalefestival.com
Shorebird Festival
April 27-29, 2007
Edge to Edge Marathon
June 10, 2007
www.edgetoedgemarathon.com
Aboriginal Days
June 21, 2007
Pacific Rim Summer Festival
July 1-15, 2007
www.pacificrimsummerfestival.ca
Tofino Lantern Festival
August 26, 2007
Art in the Gardens
September 8-9, 2007
Tofino Film Festival
September 20-24, 2007
www.tofinofilmfestival.com
Maritime Festival
September 22-23, 2007
www.tonquinfoundation.org
Oyster Festival
November 16-18, 2007
www.oystergala.com
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surfing
kayaking
fishing
Whether your a seasoned pro
looking for the big waves or a
weekend warrior trying to
learn the ropes you can't go
wrong getting in the water.
There are a number of surf
shops offering rental equipment or schools offering lesson packages. The coastline is
made up of beaches and coves
separated by rocky headlands
that point in all directions, so
not every spot will show the
same conditions on the same
day. Finding surf is all about
being in the right place at the
right time, so this requires an
open mind and understanding
of the local conditions. Watch
out for rip currents and understand the etiquette of surfing
before you enter the water.
Imagine: being the skipper of your own
craft, close to the water, travelling in
silence. Kayaks give us the unique
ability to glide slowly and silently over
shallow reefs and tuck in close to the
shoreline allowing an intimate experience with nature. Surrounded by an
intricate maze of islands, inlets and
outer beaches, Tofino sits as the perfect
launching point for any paddling
adventure. Whether your time on the
water is to be measured in hours,
days or weeks there is plenty to be
observed and discover. There are a
number of local operators that offer
guided tours, instructional courses,
and equipment rental.
With 84,000 hectares of inland
waters and nearly 50 nautical miles
of outer coastline, Tofino's location
in Clayoquot Sound offers a sport
fishing play ground that is second
to none. These pristine waters run
rich with feisty Chinook and Coho
Salmon, enormous deep dwelling
Halibut and a array of colourful bottom fish. The area attracts sport
fisherman from around the world,
many coming for its renowned saltwater fly fishing. Nothing quite like
the thrill of a strike from a fish, full
of vigour, ready to fight you for all
its worth not to make it in the boat.
whales
bird watching
Whales can be seen around the year
in Tofino. Migrating Humpbacks join
resident Grays from March to September and roaming Orcas year round.
Between March and May up to 25,000
Gray Whales travel through Clayoquot
Sound on their migration from Baja in
Mexico to Alaska. Many of these whales
take advantage of the ample foodsources in the pristine waters around
Tofino. They can be seen in feeding,
breaching and sometimes just taking
it easy. Nothing quite like a whiff of
whale breath for an invigorating day
on the water. A number of experienced
operators offer tours on a variety of
vessels, from comfortable ships with
all amenities to fast zodiacs for the
more rugged whale watcher. Scenic
flights offer a unique perspective of
whales in the water.
Tofino is blessed with world class
birding in the protected habitat of
Clayoquot Sound. The richness and
diversity of this area creates a
prime-feeding environment for birds
of many species. During the spring
and fall the beaches and mud flats
become host to countless numbers
of migratory birds as they travel the
Pacific Flyway between their summer
and winter grounds. For an adventurous approach trips out into the
inlet waters can be taken to observe
the fertile mud flats and they array
of wildlife they host. The enjoyment
of viewing such beauty is available
for all who visit, all that is required
is to open your eyes and take it in.
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hot springs
storm watching
Twenty seven nautical miles north
west of Tofino sits the picturesque Hot
Springs Cove, home of the Hesquiat
people and the Maquinna Provincial
Park. The natural hot spring bubbles
up from a crack in the earth near the
mouth of the bay. The simmering sulphur water flows as a gentle brook
and then cascades as a waterfall into
5 interconnected natural pools that
descend into the sea. At higher tides
the waves of the pacific lap into the
hot springs pools creating the incredible meeting of the cold ocean waters
and the magma heated spring. Getting there is half the fun. A number of
different operators in Tofino offer
transportation via water or air.
The beach is no longer just seen as a
place to go enjoy the warm sunny
days of summer but as an exciting
and vibrant place to witness the
amazing power of a North Pacific winter storm. The storm season generally
starts in November and carries
through till the late stages of spring,
but the most intense period lasts
from December through February.
These powerful storm fronts hit the
coast armed with hurricane force
winds, torrential rain and massive
ocean swells that can swallow up
small offshore islands in a single
surge. The ways in which to enjoy a
big winter storm are as varied as the
people who desire to experience
them. Getting all bundled up for a
windy wet walk on the beach is
always a good place to start. The sensation of leaning into the howling
wind and horizontal rain as you
watch the ocean being stirred up into
a frenzy of white froth and spinning
driftwood is one not soon to be forgotten. Or for the more indulgent and
comfortable of approaches, get yourself a ringside seat at one of the
restaurants located along the coastline or a cosy front row room for the
night. Whatever the approach, the
experience is found to be exhilarating, inspiring and relaxing, all the
emotions that one feels when seeing
the forces of nature that are so much
bigger and more powerful than us.
the park
With miles of white sand beaches, cosy
coves and groves of old growth forest
the park is full of potential adventures
and discoveries. There are numerous
interpretive trails, rich with history
and ecology that are maintained by
the park. Be sure to check out our
map on the back to see all that there
is. The Wickaninnish Centre is a must
see. This interpretive centre has many
resources and displays plus a restaurant overlooking the surf. Passes are
required to visit the park. They can
be purchased at the info centres or
from kiosks in the park.
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Ferry Schedule
july 1st to july 31
Nanaimo (Departure Bay) and
Vancouver (Horseshoe Bay)
Leaves Nanaimo
12:05pm2 5:10pm
6:20am
12:50pm 7:20pm
7:45am1
3:05pm
8:50pm4
8:30am
10:40am 4:30pm3 9:25pm
Leaves Vancouver
12:50pm 6:40pm3
6:20am
2:15pm2 7:20pm
8:30am
3:05pm
9:25pm
9:55am1
5:10pm
10:50pm4
10:40am
1
Daily except Tue, Wed, Sun
2
Daily except Tue, Wed
3
Daily except Tue, Wed, Sat
4Sundays only
Nanaimo (Duke Point) and
Vancouver (Tsawwassen)
Leaves Nanaimo
12:45pm
8:15pm
5:15am
3:15pm
10:45pm
7:45am
10:15am 5:45pm
Leaves Vancouver
12:45pm
8:15pm
5:15am
3:15pm
10:45pm
7:45am
10:15am 5:45pm
Victoria (Swartz Bay) and
Vancouver (Tsawwassen)
Leaves Victoria
12:00pm 5:00pm
6:00am5
1:00pm
6:00pm
7:00am
2:00pm
7:00pm
8:00am
3:00pm
8:00pm6
9:00am
9:00pm
10:00am 4:00pm
10:00pm7
11:00am
Leaves Vancouver
12:00pm 6:00pm
6:00am5
1:00pm
7:00pm
7:00am
2:00pm
8:00pm6
8:00am
9:00pm
3:00pm
9:00am
10:00pm7
10:00am 4:00pm
11:30pm8
11:00am 5:00pm
5 Mon-Thu except July
6 Daily except Sat
7 Fri
2
& Sun only except July 6
8 July 6 & 21 only
Reservations 1-888-724-5223
www.bcferries.com
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bed & breakfast
African Beach Cabin
tub, delicious homebaked full
breakfast in the privacy of
your room.
1250 Lynn Road
250.725-4465
www.africanbeach.com
African-themed cabin in the
forest across the road from
Chesterman Beach. Gourmet
breakfast served.
Beach Break Lodge B&B
1337 Chesterman Beach Rd.
250.725-3883
877.727-3883
www.beachbreaklodge.com
Spectacular, oceanfront
executive suites on Chesterman Beach. Bedroom, living
room, kitchen nook and huge
ensuite. King size beds, fireplaces, private hot tubs, patios
and heated slate floors.
Chesterman Beach B&B
1345 Chesterman Beach Rd
250.725-3726
www.chestermanbeach.net
[email protected]
Tofino’s first B&B since 1984,
beachfront with extraordinary
views of the rolling surf and
rocky headlands, 3 unique
private suites, some with
jetted tubs or fireplaces
Chelsea’s B&B
615 Pfeiffer Crescent
250.725-2895
[email protected]
www.island.net/~bbtofino
Centrally located with stunning
views of Clayoquot Sound.
King & queen rooms, ensuite
bathrooms, comfortable guest
lounge,TV/VCR. Warm & friendly
hospitality, lovely full breakfast served.
Jensens Bay B&B
Tofino by the Beach
camping
902 Jensens Bay Road
250.725-1259
1-877.725-1264
1277 Lynn Road
250.725-2441
Bella Pacifica
www.tofinobythebeach.com
[email protected]
400 MacKenzie Beach Road
250.725-3400
www.jensensbay.com
[email protected]
Quiet adult oriented home in
a forested site on Chesterman
Beach. Rooms have ocean
views, queen beds, bathrooms
ensuite. Continental breakfast
served to rooms.
Paddlers’ Inn
Tofino Ospray Lodge
320 Main Street
250.725-4222
450 Neill Street
250.725-2669
Crystal Cove Beach Resort
www.tofino-kayaking.com
[email protected]
www.tofinolodge.com
1165 Cedarwood Place
250.725-4213
Convenient in town location
with 3 comfortable rooms—
king, queen or twin with
private bathrooms,private
entrance, guest lounge and
full breakfast.Outdoor smoking. No pets. Affordable
fishing packages available.
www.crystalcove.cc
Family-oriented resort providing serviced RV sites & tent
campground. Free hot showers, firewood & morning coffee! Pet friendly beachfront
log cabins, with fireplaces,
hot tubs & kids playground.
Tofino Sunrise Inn
Long Beach Campground
1072 Pacific Rim Highway
250.725-2590
at Long Beach Golf course
250.725-3314
Wilderness camping just
minutes away from Long
Beach. We have 70 spacious,
secluded camp sites in our
family campground. Security. Pay showers.
Waterfront heritage building
in the Tofino harbour.
Seafarers B&B
1212 Lynn Road
250.725-1267
www.seafarersbb.com
Luxurious rooms, imaginatively decorated, featuring
king size beds, TV, VCR and
down comforters. First class
breakfast in dining room.
Clayoquot Retreat B&B
120 Arnet Road
250.725-3305
[email protected]
www.clayoquotretreat.com
Oceanfront view rooms with
private full baths, TV, small
fridges in room, seaside hot-
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www.bellapacifica.com
[email protected]
Private entry full ensuite rooms.
Located in rainforest setting
only a minute stroll to Chesterman Beach. “West Coast” continental breakfast served to room.
Solwood B&B
1298 Lynn Road
250.725-2112
1-866.725-2112
www.solwood.ca
[email protected]
Located in the forest gardens
of Chesterman Beach, Solwood
provides both inexpensive and
luxury accommodation. Perfect for a romantic get-away,
family or group holiday.
The Tides Inn
160 Arnet Road
250.725-3765
www.tidesinntofino.com
Explore the shoreline and
tidal pools, take a stroll to
Tonquin Beach or the village
of Tofino. View of Duffin
Cove from your spacious
room or seaside deck. Full
home-made breakfasts.
www.tofinosunrise.com
Waterfront location on the edge
of Browning Passage. Enjoy
the pristine rainforest surroundings and delicious breakfast
in the morning. Steps from
Tofino Botanical Gardens.
Private oceanfront and wilderness setting, 3 washrooms, pay
showers, laundry facilities, public pay phones and both ice and
firewood, picnic tables and
firepit, dogs are welcome.
www.tofinotime.com
hostels
hotels/lodges
Crystal Cove Beach Resort
at Tofino Botanical Gardens
250.725-1220
1165 Cedarwood Place
250.725-4213
House of Himwitsa Lodge
Mini Motel
www.crystalcove.cc
tofinobotanicalgardens.com
[email protected]
Modern beachfront log cabins
with kitchens & BBQ’s on the
deck, some with fireplaces &
hot tubs — a luxurious family
getaway or private retreat.
RV sites, tent camping & children’s playground. Pet friendly
300 Main Street
250.725-2017
250.725-2361 Fax
800.899-1947 Toll Free
350 Olsen Road
250.725-3441
www.himwitsa.com
Featuring First Nations artwork, masks, totems, basketry, original jewellry,
gold & silver. Owned by
First Nations people.
Set in a waterfront garden of
rhododendrons and azaleas, our
A-frame cabins offer peaceful privacy. Located close to
village attractions, yet right
on the water.
1190 Pacific Rim Hwy.
250.725-3377
Long Beach Lodge
Pacific Sands
www.dolphinmotel.ca
250.725-2442
1.877.844.7873
Cox Bay
250.725-3322
250.725-3155 Fax
800.565-2322 Toll free
Dormitory-style accommodation for students, researchers,
naturalists and artists. Educational programs, kitchen,
dining, wifi, laundry. $32/bunk
includes admission to 12 acres
of waterfront gardens. Linens
& duvets provided.
Dolphin Motel
Only five minutes to Chesterman Beach. The Dolphin’s one
and two bedroom units all have
private bathrooms. Some units
with kitchenettes and access to
the BBQ area.
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www.longbeachlodgeresort.com
Luxurious beachfront resort
for the discerning traveller,
at Cox Bay. The cedar shingled lodge offers 5 star
amenities and casual service
in a rustic setting.
www.tofinoninletcottages.com
[email protected]
www.pacificsands.com
[email protected]
www.middlebeach.com
Two rustic post and beam
lodges, complemented inside
by massive stone fireplaces
and antique nautical furnishings. Located on headlands
it offers spectacular
views from the guest
suites and cabins.
www.tofinotrekinn.com
[email protected]
[email protected]
With its seven tastefully
appointed rooms, this
waterfront lodge is a great
place for group hospitality.
Complete with common
areas, gourmet kitchen,
patio BBQ, large hot tub and
private dock. Views of
Meares Island!
The Inn at Tough City
Centrally located within the
Tofino harbour, with its own
private moorage, the Weigh
West Resort offers the perfect setting for fishermen,
boaters and adventurers
alike.
350 Main Street
250.725-2021
1.877.725.2021
www.toughcity.com
Beautiful stained glass & brick
building located on the harbourfront, with 8 gorgeous
view rooms. Private baths,
balconies, down duvets, deep
soaker tubs & fireplaces.
250.725-4445
1.800.661.9995
231 Main Street
250.725.2791
341 Olson Road
250.725-3274
Weigh West Resort
Tin Wis Beach Resort
Tofino Trek Inn
Tofino Swell Lodge
Fully equipped Villas & Suites
located beachfront on Cox
Bay. All units with kitchen
and fireplaces. Your hosts
The Pettingers.
Middle Beach Lodge
400 MacKenzie Beach Rd.
250.725-2900
The Tin Wis Best Western Resort
& Calm Water's dining room
overlook Mackenzie Beach.
Experience the natural beauty
of the “Calm Waters” at the
Tin Wis—Year round.
www.tinwis.com
[email protected]
634 Campbell Street
250.725-3277
www.weighwest.com
The Wickaninnish Inn
Osprey Lane
250.725-3100
250.725-3110 Fax
800.333-4604 Reservations
[email protected]
www.wickinn.com
Tofino’s award winning oceanfront inn, located on a rocky
promontory at Chesterman
Beach. World renowned for its
cuisine, service & location,
the inn features the Ancient
Cedars Spa and the Pointe
Restaurant. A supreme west
coast experience.
A Budget B&B located right
in the village of Tofino with
ocean views a big beautiful
kitchen, a BBQ on the deck,
a library, internet, and discounts for most major tours.
$25-35 per person $60-85
per room. Whole house rates
starting at $200 per night.
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vacation rentals
Abalone Inn
condominium. Close to restaurants, galleries, kayaking and
adventure. No smoking or pets.
250.726-6656
www.tofinoinn.com
[email protected]
3 minute walk to Chesterman
Beach, this new, completely
private, fully equipped 3 bedroom cabin with hot tub is
perfect for 6-8 guests.
Bluewater Beach Homes
Box 552, Tofino BC V0R 2Z0
250.726-5272
[email protected]
Beautiful waterfront locations
include popular Chesterman
Beach and Tofino’s picturesque
waterfront. We offer an exclusive selection of privately
owned homes, condos and
suites.
Blue Heron House
925 Sandpiper Place
877.906-2326
250.725-2866
www.blueheronhouse.ca
Situated on Jensen’s Bay bird
sanctuary. Post & beam interior,
wood plank fir floors, large
soaker tub. Ideal group size for
this 3 bdrm suite is 6-8 guests.
Cabins at Terrace Beach
Box 315, Ucluelet, BC
866.438-4373 Toll free
250.726-2101
www.thecabins.ca
[email protected]
Stand at the shores of the
Wild Pacific Ocean on the
edge in Ucluelet, B.C. One &
two bedroom beach front or
forest cabins and suites.
Cannery Retreat
230 Main Street
250.725-4234
888.492-6662 Toll Free
victoriabc.com/accom/cannery.html
[email protected]
On the harbour’s edge, Cannery
Retreat is a beautiful, fully
equipped one-bedroom loft
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Casa Vedova
Ocean Dream
Rainforest Retreat
250.725-1215
250.725-4282
www.casavedova.com
[email protected]
Inlet oceanfront cottage
on peaceful, private beach.
Self contained. Large deck
and BBQ.
Box 932 - 901 Sandpiper Plc.
Tofino, BC VOR 2Z0
250.725-3882
www.oceandream.ca
Perfectly Westcoast with Mediterranean flair. Minutes to village and ocean beaches, the
cottage sleeps 2-4. Full bath/
shower, kitchenette. Beautiful
warm clearing in the middle
of old growth forest.
On the Beach
351 Tonquin Park Road
250.704-0207
www.tofino-onthebeach.com
Clayoquot Cedar House
Eik Landing
Large, spectacular, private guest
suite suitable for families on
beachfront property overlooking
Tonquin Beach. 3 bed, 2 bath,
kitchen, fireplace, sunny deck,
1 km from Tofino.
250.725.2570
Platinum Vacation Group
250.725-2421
www.clayoquotassociates.com
Custom-built vacation home,
located next to Tofino’s best
surf and sand, experience
spacious west coast living in
the dramatic coastal forest.
Sleeps six.
Cobble Wood Guesthouse Suites
1115 Fellowship Drive
250.725-2742
250.725-2704 fax
www.tofinovacation.com
[email protected]
Cobble Wood Guesthouse offers
self-contained suites with
kitchenettes, private entrances,
ensuites, optional romantic fireplace/jacuzzi, cedar deck/patio,
walk to beaches, botanical
gardens and bird sanctuary.
www.eiklanding.com
[email protected]
Fantastic, unobstructed views
on Tofino's charming and picturesque harbour. These gorgeous privately owned homes
range from 1 - 2 bedrooms.
Within easy walking distance
to Tofino village.
Judi’s Seaside Cottages
250.725-3373
250.725-3114 fax
[email protected]
1560 Fort Street,
Victoria, BC V8S 5J2
1-866-595-8989
platinumvacationgroup.com
[email protected]
Platinum has an outstanding
selection of waterfront and
oceanview vacation homes
throughout Tofino. We provide short term rentals to fit
all budgets.
Denise Kimoto
[email protected]
Relax on your own private
deck in Clayoquot’s old growth
forest, two minute walk from
Chesterman Beach. One bedroom private suite with full
kitchen.
Sandpiper Beachhouse
250.725-3417
[email protected]
Experience the beauty, grace
and peace of the west coast
in this architecturally
designed home that shows
the true character of Tofino.
Pet friendly.
Seashack Beach Cottage
1273 Lynn Road
250.725-4430
250.725-8833
www.tofinoseashack.com
Beautiful, private cottage for
two on Chesterman beach with
spectacular views. A very
romantic retreat with all
amenities. Well-behaved
dogs welcome.
Very private waterfront
cottages and homes. Fully
equipped, fireplaces, cozy
west coast casual.Sleeps 2-6
www.tofinotime.com
Sea Star Beach Retreat
South Chesterman Beach
1294 Lynn Road
250.725-2041
1.866.443.STAR (7827)
430 Campbell Street
250.725.2779
877-799-2779
www.seastar-tofino.com
[email protected]
southchestermantofino.com
[email protected]
Fully private suites available for families, couples or
singles. Relax in comfort in
your “home away from home”.
Outdoor hot-tub. Across from
Chesterman Beach.
Located at the south end of
Chesterman Beach, all suites
are privately owned and have
been designed with for comfort. Suites range from one to
three bedrooms and offer full
custom kitchens.
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beach, minutes to ocean
beaches and shops.
and discounts for most major
tours.
Tofino Beach Homes
Tofino Vacation Rentals
250.725-2570
430 Campbell Street
250.725.2779
877-799-2779 Toll free
[email protected]
www.tofinobeach.com
Tigh-Na-Clayoquot
Fabulous, privately-owned,
oceanfront vacation homes.
Exclusive to Chesterman Beach.
Ranging from 1-3 bedrooms
and most ‘pet friendly.’
1040 Campbell Street
250.725-4490
Tofino Seascape
www.tofino-holidays.com
[email protected]
1289 Lynn Road
604.926-2828
Fully equipped three bedroom
cottage; patio, BBQ, uniquely
Tofino custom beds. Private
boardwalk to secluded inlet
www.tofinoseascape.com
[email protected]
Oceanfront executive home
with spectacular views, fully
equipped country kitchen, two
fireplaces, large deck, pets with
responsible owners welcome.
Tofino Trek Inn
231 Main Street
250.725.2791
www.tofinotrekinn.com
[email protected]
Rates starting at $200/night.
3 bedroom house located right
in the village of Tofino with
ocean views, a big beautiful kitchen, BBQ on the
deck, a library, internet,
www.tofinovr.com
southchestermantofino.com
[email protected]
Tofino’s premier vacation rental
management service since 1998.
From beachfront homes, cottages and townhomes on
spectacular Chesterman Beach
to stunning oceanfront homes,
cottages and condos in the
Tofino area. We have something
for everyone!
Viewwest Rentals
949 Sandpiper Place
250.726.5209
1-888-448-4141 Toll free
www.viewwest.com
[email protected]
New luxury cedar homes, minutes from Chesterman Beach.
Private premier locations. Hot
tubs, sauna, pool table, barbecue, fully equipped kitchens,
laundry facilities. Great for
families.
Vista Hermosa
250 Main Street
250.725-3906
www.vistahermosa.ca
[email protected]
This cliff top oceanview
vacation home offers spectacular views over Tofino harbour and Meares Island, fully
equipped custom kitchen,
living room with fireplace,
www.tofinotime.com
1000 sq.ft. oceanview deck,
hot tub, BBQ, deck furniture.
Zoe’s at North Beach
1216 Lynn Road
250.725-2500
www.zoesatnorthbeach.com
[email protected]
Enjoy the casual atmosphere
of Zoe’s at beautiful Chesterman Beach. Down duvets, hot
tub, wrap around deck, fireplace and bbq. Perfect getaway for friends and families
real estate
Re⁄Max: Linda Pettinger
311 Neill Street
250.725-3969
250.725-2039 Fax
800. 316-0130 Toll Free
www.tofinorealty.com
[email protected]
Real estate agent for
Re/Max in Tofino. Realtor
Linda Pettinger delivers
results with the largest portfolio of Tofino properties.
Re⁄Max: Jim Schwartz
311 Neill Street
250.725.3419
250.725.2183 Fax
877. 999-4888 Toll Free
www.tofinohomes.com
[email protected]
Jim Schwartz has been a resident of Tofino for 30 years.
Services offered in residential,
commercial and remote properties as well as a development consultant.
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restaurants
Back Nine Bar & Grill
at Long Beach Golf course
250.725-3332
Out of this world good food
at down to Earth prices!
Great burgers, wraps and
daily specials. Open 9am9pm in July & August.
Gary’s Kitchen
308 Neil Street
250.725-3921
Chinese & Western food, quick
and fresh daily specials, family
menu, with burgers, fish &
chips and sea food.
Open 7 days a week,
located next to
the liquor store.
Blue Heron Restaurant
634 Campbell Street
at the Weigh West
250.725-3277
www.weighwest.com
Built on stilts, extended
over the inlet, this dining
room offers a unique ambience. Enjoy the extensive
menu with a view of the
harbour.
Breaker’s Deli
430 Campbell Street
250.725 2558
www.breakersdeli.com
The best place to refuel!
Awesome burritos, wholewheat pizza, gourmet sandwiches, salads and salsas.
All day breakfast, smoothies
and organic coffee! Open
early to late!
Calm Waters at Tin Wis
Local Motion
events to be announced.
Reservations recommended.
SoBo
230 Main Street (Tibbs Bldg)
250.725-3669
1.888.332.4252 Toll free
Schooner Restaurant
in the Botanical Gardens
250.725-2341
Sobo is Tofino’s most unique
eatery. The purple catering
truck uses many local ingrediants to create simple fresh
handmade food for locals
and visitors alike
Sea Shanty Restaurant
Tough City Sushi
Long Beach Lodge
300 Main Street
250.725-2017
250.725-2361 Fax
800.899-1947 Toll Free
Specializing in fresh local
seafood. Waterfront dining.
Situated above the First
Street Dock with a breathtaking view of Clayoquot
Sound. Daily 11am-9pm.
Licensed. Outdoor seating.
350 Main Street
250.725-2021
www.tinwis.com
[email protected]
www.longbeachlodgeresort.com
180 First Street
250.725-3915
Tofino’s famous wholefoods
bake shop. Breads, muffins,
cinnies and cakes. Organic dark
roast coffees. Pizza by
the slice, soups, sandwiches,
enchiladas, curries, salads.
Licensed!
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[email protected]
www.sobo.ca
A cozy, romantic restaurant,
showcasing Vancouver Island’s
seafood, organic poultry
and perfectly aged meat.
Award winning wine list.
250.725-4445
Common Loaf Bake Shop
[email protected]
Tofino’s f inest waterfront view
for coffee, specialty coffees, tea,
subs, juices, desserts, pastries
and a growing menu. Enjoy
our patio. Available for special
events and tour bookings.
250.725-2442
1.877.844.7873
Come visit us in the Tin Wis
Dining Room and feast
under Spectacular sunsets
and Romantic moonlight.
331 Campbell Street
250.725-3444
www.seaside-adventures.com
seasideadventures2007
@hotmail.com
Spectacular beachfront dining.
Wonderful hand-crafted food
featuring only the freshest of
seasonal, local, organic
ingredients, served in an
unpretentious manner.
ramic views of Chesterman
Beach and the open ocean.
Don’t miss the salmon barbecue brunch in the summer!
Raincoast Café
The Pointe Restaurant
101-120 Fourth Street
250.725-2215
Shelter Restaurant
Osprey Lane
250.725-3106
[email protected]
www.raincoastcafe.com
601 Campbell Street
250.725-3353
Modern food for modern people.
Offering an innovative menu in
an intimate setting from 5:30pm
daily. Live music and special
www.shelterrestaurant.com
[email protected]
www.wickinn.com
Exquisite food, remarkable
wines and an elegantly rustic
ambiance. Superb breakfast,
lunch and dinner with pano-
Tofino’s stylish and bustling
restaurant overlooking Clayoquot Sound. Fresh seafood
and local foods creatively
served. Outside patio, open
kitchen, and cheerful service.
www.toughcity.com
Authentic Japanese sushi
bar and west coast cuisine.
At the Inn at Tough City, with
harbour views, waterfront
patio. Uniquely decorated
with collectibles.
internet cafés
Tofitian
250.725-2631
www.tofitian.com
Unique internet café offering
Italian espresso, gourmet teas,
high speed internet access, free
wireless and a taste of Tofino’s
‘end of the road culture’.
www.tofinotime.com
body & soul
Arbutus Acupuncture
Anahata Yoga
Box 1048, Ucluelet
250.726-3643
250.725-8363
[email protected]
www.anahatayoga.info
[email protected]
Acupuncture treats: Circulatory issues (hypertension),
psychoemotional disorders
(depression, anxiety), neuromusculoskeletal disorders
(arthritis, insomnia), gastroinstestinal illness, gynocological issues (menopause),
sports/work injuries (tennis
elbow, lower backpain).
Drop-in classes at a variety of
Tofino locations with Natalie
Rousseau ERYT. Private classes
for the group or individual
available upon request.
Vinyasa, Hatha, Pre-Natal.
Barefoot Reflexology
250.725-8141
[email protected]
Certified Reflexologist, Tina
Wintersgill, provides this
natural healing art that can
melt away stress and rejuve-
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nate your step. Sit back and
savour a refreshing and
unique massage of the feet.
Pacific Rim Chiropractic
and Naturopathic Clinic
250.522-0033
Ancient Cedars Spa
[email protected]
Osprey Lane
250.725-3113
250.725-3110 Fax
Naturopathic doctor: Nutrition
(weight loss, food sensitivities, digestive disorders),
Acupuncture (migraines,
arthritis), Homeopathy (anxiety, depression, addictions),
Botanical Medicine (hormonal
imbalances), Bowen Therapy
(injuries, pain, stress) and
Lifestyle Counseling.
[email protected]
www.wickinn.com
Extremely beautiful in its
setting between wild Pacific
Ocean and old-growth forest.
Ancient Cedars Spa enhances
the magical guest experience
of this resort haven, known as
a retreat for ‘nature’s dramas’
and epicurean excellence.
Deb’s Beauty and Spa
161 Fourth Street
250.725-2099
A full service beauty spa
offering esthetics, hair,
tanning, massage and reiki.
Tofino’s original house of
beauty! Open 7 days a week.
Shiatsu Tofino
250.725.8188
[email protected]
Shiatsu relieves the effects
of stress on the body in a
comfortable safe environment. We combined pressure
techniques, stretches and
joint rotations to improve
overall health.
Reflections Retreat
Studio One
656 Shore Pine Cresent
250.725-4448
Unit E - 1180 Pac Rim Hwy
in the old Live to Surf building
250.725-3450
Tofino’s only Aveda Concept
Salon! High quality hair, make
up, nails and waxing services
in a relaxed professional enviroment. We also specialize in
wedding day services.
reflectionsholisticretreat.com
[email protected]
Quality therapeutic treatments
for your whole being. Massage,
Acupressure, Reiki, Hot
LaStones, Lomi Lomi, Thai
Massage, yoga, scrubs & wraps,
holistic facials, infrared sauna.
Sacred Presence
680 Ocean Park Avenue
250.725-2820
Activate your body’s own
healing energies. Certified Eden
Energy Medicine practitioner.
Also offering relaxing Hawaiian lomi-lomi massage and
Hawaiian hot stone massage.
Sacred Stone Spa
421 Main Street
250.725-3341
www.tofinotime.com
Ayurvedic therapies, hot stone
massage, organic facials, shiatsu, Hawaiian lomi lomi and
infrared sauna.
Thérèse Bouchard
250.725-4278
20 years of professional
expertise: Swedish Massage,
Trager®, Hot Stones, CranioSacral, Accupressure, Reiki,
& Therapeutic Touch in a
spectacular garden studio
setting. Certified clinical
hypno-therapist. Highest ratings with TofinoTime readers.
Tofino Massage Works
250.725-2588
www.sacredstone.ca
[email protected]
www.tofinomassage.ca
[email protected]
Tofino’s premiere wellness spa.
Massage, Therapeutic bodywork, Thai treatments,
Give us your body for an
hour and we’ll give you back
your state of mind. Come
experience the transformation that occurs by surrendering to healing hands.
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food stores
Beaches Grocery
250.725-2270
Convenience store with a
selection of specialty foods.
Local produce and freshly
baked bread.
Common Loaf Bake Shop
180 First Street
250.725-3915
Tofino’s famous wholefoods
bake shop. Breads, muffins,
cinnies and cakes. Organic
dark roast coffees. Pizza by
the slice, soups, sandwiches,
enchiladas, curries, salads.
Licensed!
4th Street Natural Market
4th & Campbell Street
250.725-2747
Fresh, certified organic, local,
natural, fair trade: produce,
groceries, dry goods, snacks,
meat, dairy and alternatives;
biodegradable and/or recycled household items. Wheat
and Gluten free items.
L.A. Grocery
131 First Street
250.725-4251
Large convenience store in
the heart of town — everything you might need in a
pinch. Selection of videos
for rent. Open till eleven!
Tofino Co-op
140 First Street
250.725-3226
250.725-3178 Fax
[email protected]
The Co-op features the
freshest of produce, hot and
cold deli selections, a full
service meat department, as
well as a full line of groceries.
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Trilogy Fish Company Ltd.
630 Campbell Street
250.725-2233
250.725-2234 Fax
[email protected]
www.trilogyfish.com
More than just a fish store!
On the waterfront
enjoy JJ Bean
Coffee to go.
Also, sandwiches.
And chowder
made with
our fresh
local seafood.
boutiques & gifts
Fiber Options
Plush
Boutique Upstairs
120 Fourth Street
250.725-2192
411 Campbell Street
250.725.2136
www.ecoeverything.com
451 Main St
250.725-2730
We offer a wide variety of
stylish and quality clothing,
lingerie, accessories and
jewellery. And now stocking
the shelves for you guys too.
Natural fibers specialty clothing store. Beeswax candles,
tree-free art cards and natural
bodycare round out the selection of hemp, organic cotton
and alternative fabric items.
[email protected]
Charming boutique offering
trendy fashion & lingerie to
young women. We also carry
a great selection of jewelry,
handbags, greeting cards,
books and gifts!
Mermaid Tales Bookshop
Castaways
455 Campbell Street
250.725-2125
455 Campbell Street
behind Mermaid Tales
250.725.2004
Tofino’s only second hand
store sells a large selection of
gently used clothing, books
and other hidden treasures.
The Gelato Oasis serves Mario
Gelato in home made waffle
cones.
[email protected]
381 Main Street
250.725-2308
Broad selection of quality new
paperbacks, from international
fiction, sci-fi and fantasy to
history and spirituality. Also
childrens books, games, toys,
frisbees, single line kites and
high performance sport kites.
[email protected]
Ocean Kids
Colourful metaphysical store
with gemstones, yoga and
meditation supplies, spiritual
self-healing books and magazines, jewellry, CDs, fair trade
imports, art, hats, clothing &
more. Inspiring healing from
the special space within.
564 Campbell Street
250.725-2771
Clothing Toys Accessories.
Tofino’s only specialty kids
shop! Trendy clothes sizes 016. Beach stroller and backpack rentals.
Enchanted
Tofino Gift Company
421 Main Street
at Ocean Outfitters
250.725-2866
www.oceanoutfitters.bc.ca
A stylish little gallery featuring
hand made jewellery, cozy
alpaca sweaters and toques,
unique local woodturnings,
rock tealights, walking sticks,
art, books and a great little
kids section!
Wildside Booksellers
320 Main Street
250.725-4222
Waterfront book store covering a variety of topics from
guide books to local history
and novels. Get your caffeine fix at the espresso bar
www.tofinotime.com
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Driftwood
Eagle Aerie Gallery
131 First Street
250.725-3905
The biggest selection of
giftware, souvenirs and
clothing. A variety of beachwear for men, women and
children. Home decor, garden
accessories and sterling silver
jewelry.
350 Campbell Street
250.725-3235
800.663-0669 Toll Free
www.royhenryvickers.com
Traditional Northwest Coast
longhouse featuring the
works of Tsimshian Artist
Roy Henry Vickers. Selection
of original prints, books,
posters, totems & art cards.
House of Himwitsa
event services
300 Main Street
250.725-2017
250.725-2361 Fax
800.899-1947 Toll Free
Clayoquot Cuisine
ments such as hairdressers,
florist, musicians, photographers, private caterers, local
activities and excursions.
250.266.6060 Cell
250.725-1234 Home
www.himwitsa.com
bicycles
[email protected]
Featuring First Nations artwork, masks, totems, basketry, original jewellry,
gold & silver. Owned by
First Nations people.
Mark Wrigley, Chef de Cuisine
will be offering his exquisite
culinary skills for you and your
friends in the comfort of your
own home or personal lodgings.
Shorewind Gallery
Crabapple Floral Designs
4th & Campbell Street
250.725-1222
310 Olsen Road
250.725-2911
www.shorewindgallery.com
[email protected]
www.crabapplefloral.com
Featuring west coast fine art,
a wide collection of paintings,
sculptures, pottery and jewellery. Largest collection of
Mark Hobson’s artwork
The Lounge Collection
430 Campbell Street
250.725-3334
Contemporary gallery showcasing hip and innovative designs
found nowhere else in town.
Gourmet Illy espresso.
Creative floral designs with a
west coast flair. Garden style
arrangements with natural
greenery. Imaginative accessories & flowers for weddings
and special occasions.
Tofitian Productions
Box 362,Tofino, BC V0R 2Z0
250.726-5363
[email protected]
www.tofitian.com
Multimedia event production,
from weddings and parties to
concerts. Live sound and
visual projection, complete
corporate services.
West Coast Weddings & Events
250.725-2213
250.266-2094 cell
[email protected]
TOF Cycles Co.
250.725-BIKE (2453)
250.266-BIKE (2453) Cell
[email protected]
Hybrid & electric bike rentals.
Serving Tofino residents, visitors, resorts and rental outlets
on all aspects of cycling since
2002. CCA certified (1985) and
insured. Free estimates.
Ukee Bikes, Boards & Kites
Village Square Shops, Ukee
250.726-2453
[email protected]
Sales, Rental, Repair, Service.
Hourly, daily, long term and
group bike rental rates. Featuring Trek, Del Sol & Norco
Bikes & MBS Mountain Boards.
Open Tuesday to Saturday 10-6.
transportation
Tofino Water Taxi
250.726-5485
877.726-5485 Toll Free
www.tofinowatertaxi.com
Boat shuttle services, including
the Big Trees Trail on Meares
Island, site of some of the
world's largest western red
cedar trees. $20/person return.
WCWE services include event
consultations and referrals for
all wedding and event require-
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whale watching
A Seaside Adventure
230 Main Street (Tibbs Bldg)
250.725-2292
888.332-4252 Toll free
www.seaside-adventures.com
seasideadventures2007
@hotmail.com
First Nation guided and
owned, whale & bear tours
by zodiak, closed and open
family vessels, hot springs
day- and overnight tours, sea
to sky seaplane tours.
Clayoquot Eco Tours
at the Whale Centre
411 Campbell Street
250.725-2132
250.725-2136 Fax
888-474-2288 Toll free
www.tofinowhalecentre.com
Visit the coastal museum
and whale exhibit while you
book your marine adventure.
Whale and bear watching,
and Hot Springs Cove trips.
Jamies Whaling Station
606 Campbell Street
250.725-3919
www.jamies.com
Tofino’s first & finest, est. 1982.
Zodiacs, cruisers & 65’ vessels.
Guaranteed sightings on whale,
bear & sealion tours. Hot
Springs, kayaking, scenic
flights, Meares island & more.
Also in Ucluelet.
Ocean Outfitters
421 Main Street
250.725-2866
www.oceanoutfitters.bc.ca
Tofino’s Favourite Adventure
Company! Whale, bear & nature
cruising. Coastal hotsprings
excursions, sea to sky tours and
Meares Island Hikes. X-Large
zodiac and luxury cabin cruisers with washrooms. Voted #1
Remote Passages Marine
Excursions
@ Wharf Street
in the big red boathouse
1-800.666-9833 Toll free
Offering specialised adventure tours & whale watching
since 1986. Exciting zodiac
& covered vessel tours by
informative guides. Educational programs for all ages.
564 Campbell Street
250.725-2700
450 Neill Street
250.725-2133
www.tofinofishing.com
www.ospray.com
[email protected]
Jack’s Saltwater Fly Charters
scenic cruises
Browning Pass Charters
890 Main Street
250.725-3435
Scenic cruises and bear
watching on the charter yacht
‘The Browning Passage’. Vessel has upper viewing deck,
washroom and heated cabin.
Ospray Charters
Salmon and halibut fishing in
the pristine waters of Clayoquot
Sound. Fully insured vessels
featuring today’s premiere electronics and fishing equipment.
www.remotepassages.com
www.browningpass.com
[email protected]
Clayoquot Ventures
sport fishing
Always Something Charters
Moored at Tofino gas dock
250.266-hook(4665)
alwayssomethingcharters.com
[email protected]
Join us for a fun day of fly
fishing, or deep sea salmon
fishing, all gear included. Or
4X4 rainforest adventures to
pristine waterfalls, bear, and
eagle sightings.
Very productive and fun fishing
adventures since 1987 for
Salmon and Halibut aboard
fully equipped deluxe 28ft
covered cruisers for groups
up to 6 persons.
250.266-0135
250.725-4402
Swell Time Charters
www.jackscharters.com
[email protected]
Moored at Trilogy Dock
250.266-0029
250.725-2475
Affordable, fun and productive
saltwater fly, bucktailing and
light tackle salmon fishing
charters on the calm scenic
waters of Clayoquot Sound.
Lance’s Sportfishing Adventures
120 Fourth Street
inside Shorewind Gallery
250.725-2569
www.fishtofino.com
[email protected]
Join Guide Lance Desilets for
personalized fishing charters!
Offshore, Inshore and hotsprings/fishing combos! 24ft
offshore vessels, first class
service and great fishing!
www.swelltimecharters.ca
[email protected]
Offering salmon and halibut
fishing off-shore and within
protected waters, onboard
this fully insured aluminum
boat with cabin.
Tofino Charters
Box 536
250.725-3767
250.725-8919 (cell)
www.tofinocharters.com
[email protected]
Year round quality fishing,
adventures and custom charters. Serving Tofino and Clayoquot Sound since 1989.
JEREMY KORESKI
PHOTOGRAPHY
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Tofino Coastal Sportfishing
scuba diving
250.726-5364
Undersea Dive Charters
tofinocoastalsportfishing.com
tofinocoastalsportfishing
@hotmail.com
Fish for Salmon and Halibut,
Saltwater Flyfishing, Lake and
River Trips, Year Round, Local
Guides. All Meals Included
Weigh West Resort
634 Campbell Street
250.725-3277
www.weighwest.com
Full-service fishing resort
with on-site processing and
storage facilities. Flyfishing
tours and offshore fishing.
Team of experienced guides.
cmmnit Dirctry
Also carrying Tofino’s largest
selection of CD's and vinyl.
Lowest rental rates.
1180 Pac. Rim Highway
250.725-2221
sea kayaking
Tofino Seakayaking
[email protected]
Rainforest Kayak
320 Main Street
250.725-4222
Box 511, Tofino BC
250.725-3117
www.tofino-kayaking.com
Pacific Surf School
Celebrating one of the world’s
most diverse and spectacular
paddling areas since 1987,
Tofino Seakayaking offers
daytrips, overnight and
custom tours. The bookstore
offers food for thought and
cappuccinos.
430 Campbell Street
250.725-2155
From novice to PADI professional. Lessons, charters, fun
& adventure. Discover scuba
diving today and see the best
side of Clayoquot sound.
www.rainforestkayak.com
Coastal kayaking veterans Dan
Lewis and Bonny Glambeck
offer a range of fun and informative multi-day instructional
courses and guided tours.
Remote Passages Kayaking
surfing
@ Wharf Street
in the big red boathouse
1-800.666-9833
Bruhwiler Surf School
www.remotepassages.com
Their seakayaking daytrips
will quickly take you from
the bustle of Tofino to where
rainforest, beaches and tidal
flats surround you. No experience required as lessons
are included.
311 Olsen Road
250.726-5481
www.bruhwilersurf.com
[email protected]
Learn to surf with Canada’s
best known pros and local
surfers. Expert and comprehensive instruction for
beginners to advanced levels.
Live to Surf
250.725-4464
www.livetosurf.com
Live To Surf is the Original
Tofino Surf shop that provides Surf, Skate and Skim,
Sales, Rentals, and Lessons
for all ages. Visit the shop
with experience.
Long Beach Surf Shop
630 Campbell St.
250.725-3800
[email protected]
Tofino’s smallest surf shop.
Has a huge selection of
rental and retail surf gear.
www.pacificsurfschool.com
Catch the experience, hang
out with our coastal crew
and learn to surf on the
island’s rugged west coast.
Storm Surf
440 Campbell Street
250.725-3344
www.stormcanada.ca
High performance surf gear.
Sales and rentals. Streetwear
and skateboards. Friendly and
experienced staff of surfers
will answer your questions.
Surf Sister Surf School
625 Campbell Street
250.725-4456
1.877.724-SURF
www.surfsister.com
Learn to surf with Canada’s
only women’s surf school.
Daily lessons (guys welcome),
weekend clinics, teen camps,
yoga surf retreats, and
mother/daughter camps.
Westside Surf School
250.725-2404
www.westsidesurfschool.com
Tofino’s finest surfschool using
the most advanced techniques
acquired over a decade of
teaching by director Sepp Bruhwiler, Canada’s internationally
known pro.
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Tofino General Hospital
261 Neil St.
250 725 3212
Tonquin Medical Clinic
220 First St
250 725 3282
RCMP Tofino Branch
400 Campbell St.
250 725 3242
Emer. 911
Fire Department
Emrg. 911
Ambulance
Emrg. 911
Tofino Municipal Office
121 Third St.
250 725 3229 ph
250 725 3775 fx
www.tofino.ca
[email protected]
Canada Post Tofino
161 First St.
250 725 3734
Wickaninnish Community
School
431 Gibson St.
250 725 3254 Elementary
250 725 2555 Community
Ucluelet Secondary School
1450 Peninsula Rd.
Ucluelet
250 726 7796
Tofino Public Library
331 Main St.
Legion Basement
250 725 3713
Wed-Thu, 3pm-7pm
Saturday 10am-12 & 1-5pm
Tourist Information
Center
Fisheries & Oceans
1426 Pacific Rim Hwy
250 725 3414
161 First St.
250 725 3500
Pacific Rim National Park
250 726 7721
Clayoquot Sound Central
Regional Board
250 725 2009
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Tofino Taxi
250 725 3333
Wet Coast Towing
250 726 8312
Raincoast Interpretive
Center
451 Main St.
250 725 2560
Royal Canadian Legion
Branch 65 Clayoquot
331 Main St.
250 725 3361
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canada V0R 2Z0
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fax:
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Viewpoint
Camping
Wheelchair
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Lighthouse Picnic Table
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See inset map
on page 54
for details
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Schooner Cove Trail
From the parking lot it’s about a 2km
return trip over fairly easy terrain to
the northernmost end of Long Beach.
Turn right when you hit the beach
and go around the corner. A good
place to go to get out of the afternoon westerly winds in the summer.
Spruce Fringe
Perched on the edge of the salty
Pacific Ocean the forest here is an
example of survival of the fittest.
The trail is well marked with interpretive plaques that offer botanical
information and descriptions. The
1.5km trail is moderate in difficulty
with only one set of stairs to climb.
Rain Forest
2km trail that crisscrosses the highway takes a half hour to walk. The
boardwalk takes you through a classic temperate coastal rainforest,
offering interpretive plaques and
many opportunities for investigation. Salmon spawning streams and
giant old growth cedars are only a
couple of the wonders to be seen.
Shoreline Bog
Growing like a bonsai garden, the
forest in this bog is stunning. Winding through it is a wide and comfortable boardwalk, making it accessible
to young and old. The area owes its
peculiar appearance to the acidic
soil that stunts and deforms all that
grows there. Trees hundreds of years
Radar
Hill
℡ 
Schooner
Cove
Long
Beach
old, may be only just overhead. The
800m loop takes approximately 20
to 30 minutes to walk and is wheelchair compatible.
Wickaninnish Trail
A historic trail that has its roots as
both an aboriginal path and an early
pioneer roadway. Connecting the
south end of Long Beach and Florencia Bay this 5km loop passes through
many different forest structures.
Named after the Nuu-Chah-Nulth
leader Chief Wickaninnish.
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℡ Green
Point
Kennedy Lake
℡ 
Combers
Beach
 ℡
Wickaninnish Rd.
Wickaninnish
Beach
℡
 i ℡
Florencia
Bay
South Beach
Willowbrae Trail
Starting behind the Wickaninnish
Centre this 1.5km round trip takes
you to one of the best beaches on
the west coast for storm watching.
Thanks to the funnelling action of
the rocky headlands, South Beach
tends to get bigger waves than the
surrounding area. Beware of wave
surges that can quickly catch you off
guard. The pebble beach offers great
picnicking in the summer.
This 3km return trip takes you down
one of the original “corduroy” roads
that was used to travel between
Tofino and Ucluelet. All around you
there is evidence of the pioneers
that once tried to tame the area. You
can still see the notches made by
axes of early loggers as they cleared
some of the early homesteads.
Gold Mine
CLOSED
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half the pce— twice the plesure!
Half Moon Bay
Branching off from the end of the
Willowbrae trail this path offers
some of the most spectacular vistas
in the park. Up top you wander past
massive ancient cedars and then
descend down to Half Moon Bay
under giant twisted spruce trees that

Willowbrae Road
Ucluelet
have been turned like cork screws by
the coastal storms. The boardwalk
down to the beach is very steep and
not recommended for everyone.

Tofino Time Magazine July 2007

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