There are many places in BC I haven't visited, but one I must see is Vancouver Island, mainly to visit Pacific Rim National Park as currently I only have one other park on the coast for my planned National Park book.
My first stop once leaving the ferry was Cathedral grove, an amazing old growth forest with huge trees everywhere.
The busy trails meant I was waiting most of the time for people to pass but also for the wind to die down so all the leaves and plants wouldn't be blurry.
Next I drove straight for the coast looking to find a great sunset spot, which I found but sadly I wasn't given a great sunset to go with it.
The weather didn't look good for my whole time here so I needed another plan which was shore life. I found this the next day on a hike down to Halfmoon bay clambering over the rocks.
The best time for these shots is at low tide so I ended spending all day here to get 2 low tides and maximise my time which I needed to get the water flow just right. I would spend almost on hour at each spot.
The park also had lots of old growth forest around so a hike along some of the trails found these gems. It's tough to get the scale of these trees to come across, especially in a panoramic.
On the way back to the ferry to head back to Vancouver I visited Juan de Fuca Park, not much shore life could be found as the tide was high but the bays had some rock and I also finally got a sunset!
After a crazy amount of driving and exploring it is time to relax so I headed up BCs sunshine coast to stay with a friend of my Aunty, Jeany, who kindly had us stay in her cabin in the woods near Lund.
It was perfect weather which was nice as apparently BC has had the worse weather in years which makes me happy I missed it traveling.
I spent a few afternoons relaxing in this hammock, it was actually the first time I've been in one.
Apparently I can't come to the sunshine coast and not go in a boat into desolation sound, normally tours are $95 and you don't get much choice on what you see, so I found a local guy with a boat called Dustin who took me around for $100 so I can direct where I wanted to go.
I hate shooting from a boat as I love to use a tripod but I made it work but as I live to take long exposures of water I knew I wouldn't get what I wanted.
First I was met by a pack of dolphins circling a bay, sadly they never came close to our boat and my landscape gear isn't best suited for wildlife that moves all the time.
But I did manage to pull off a great shot with the beautiful coastal mountains BC has.
I was also on the lookout for some shore life like star fish but sadly I could see any here.
Once I arrived back on shore I rushed to find a spot on the docks just in time for a nice sunset.
For the last evening in Lund we had a lovely meal on the balcony of this perfect lighthouse like house with a great view over the ocean. This would be the perfect place if only the winters were as nice.
