Cathedral Grove

This place is so amazing. We stopped in so I could use the outhouse (naturally I had to pee right after we got onto the highway) and we ended up wandering around the trails for a while because it's so beautiful.

This trip was so nice because we just took our time and had really nice drive up the island which we don't really get to do very often. Sure we go up to Qualicum a couple times a year for family fun, but I've only ever been to Tofino once before this trip and I've lived on the Island since I was 11!

The trees are all HUGE and all throughout the park there are information boards telling you all about the history of the forest, the trees and all of the natural processes that happen in the Deep Woods.

This tree looks like an angry maw!

A Honeymoon, in three parts

I realized as I was going through all of our photos from our trip that we took a lot of them. And that if I was going to share them all at once your brains might ooze out of your ears a little bit.

So I have broken them up into three sections...

ahem...

Part one Cathedral Grove. We stopped here on our drive up Island. It's a beautiful National Park full of crazy huge Old Growth Forest style trees.

Like hundreds and hundreds of years old. Totally amazing.

Part Two Long Beach. Pretty self explanatory really. We went to Long Beach a couple of times while we were there and it's awesome.

Part Three Hot Springs. Holy Sweet Jesus this place is amazing. A naturally occurring hot spring just outside of Tofino where the water is a scalding 106 degrees where it comes out of the ground and a series of stepped pools leading to the ocean. All totally natural with zero interference from Humans. Unless you count the thousands of tourists who check it out every year and clamber around the rocks like mountain goats. But besides that there has been no human intervention in the awesomeness.

So starting tomorrow I will share a series of pictures from each mazing part of our trip!

Right now I have to polish a ring so that I can get it set already.
Duty calls.

This week is busy one too, it's my birthday on Friday so I have to get everything done before then so that I don't have to stress about ANYTHING all day long!