As we headed north past Nanaimo I could only think to myself that every city on Vancouver Island is a "harbour city."




On the highway between Nanaimo and Port Alberni is Cathedral Grove, a stunning collection of giant trees protected in a national park.




That's a really big tree!




After failing to find a suitable lunch location in Port Alberni itself, we stopped at a small fruit and vegetable market outside the town. We picked up some excellent blueberries, cherries, strawberries and green peas, with the latter consumed by the time we got to Tofino.




Simultaneously the most expensive and poorest-rated hotel on our trip, the Days Inn Tofino actually gave us a decent room. Sure, the fish-processing pier did kind of dominate the view from the balcony, but we were able to look beyond that.

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