Vancouver Island - Tofino

 

Hi Everyone,

After 1 night in Nanaimo, we took a van ride to Tofino!! If this was a Maori place, I think it would be spelled Te Whino. But it is in Canada, not NZ. Anyway, we had to walk for 1 hour with heavy backpacks from town to our caravan park beacsue there were no taxi companies! It wasn't that bad, but Mum and Dad got us ice cream afterwards. Mum, Lily and I all had double caramel Magnums 😋.  Our cabin is really cool and it looks like a lg cabin! It also has a raised walkway to... A STEAM ROOM!!! Which we are trying out soon before we leave. There is also a playground nearby with cool tire horse swings. There was a cute collie dog playing in the sandpit yesterday, and I found that quite funny. Speaking of dogs, there is a little fluffy dog that belongs to one of the gardeners here; he sits in the golf cart and he is very cute. There is a big tree near our cabin that has a funny face on it, so I also put a photo of it below. 

We live right next to the beach here! It is really cool! I like climbing on the rocks and making cool things in the sand like castles and stuff. Dad and I actually found some green sea anemones! They were called Giant anemones, but they were only the size of my hand. There were also cool raspberry like berries that grow here called Salmon berries. I also found 2 sand dollars!! I have never found them before and I was very happy. I won't take them home though, because they might smell a bit bad (because they are shells and because they are dead animals). 

Yesterday we had lunch at a burger place and they had very big chicken burgers and yummy poutine (chips with gravy and cheese curds on top). Then we had ice cream in chocolate cones afterwards. I had one called Hedgehog (chocolate and hazelnut, yum!) and Lily had one called Hammerhead (a secret recipe!! I think it was cardamon flavoured and had dry activated charcoal for the colouring). 

Write more soon,

-Emily