Once we got our fill of city life in Victoria, we headed out to explore the rest of Vancouver Island. It’s amazing how quickly the beautiful and clean city transitions into some of the most lush and wild forests you can drive through. Props to the Canadians for having some pretty well maintained roads with halfway decent cell service across most of the island.

As luck would have it, the weather turned gray as we drove around for 2 weeks. We got just a small handful of sunny days, but rain showers make for really nice photographic additions. They provide mood, mist in the hills, and really bring the green out of the already green scenery.

We spent our time in Tofino, Campbell River, Port McNeil, and made it all the way up to San Josef Bay. Between these cute towns, we saw orcas, black bears, more bald eagles than we had ever seen, and tons of otters. We hiked the coast, we hiked up hills, we hiked to a decades old plane crash, and we saw an incredible number of waterfalls.

Definitely going to be back… but hopefully the weather will be a bit more cooperative next time.