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Lighthouse Loop, Wild Pacific Trail, Ucluelet

The Wild Pacific Trail is an easy and well maintained trail located in Ucluelet on Vancouver Island, BC. The trail is still in development and is expanding every single year, drawing more and more visitors to the area. This post will focus on the Lighthouse Loop section of the trail which is probably the most popular section of the Wild Pacific Trail. If you want more info on the other sections or on the Wild Pacific Trail in general, visit the official website: http://www.wildpacifictrail.com/. When we first hiked the Lighthouse Loop section 3 years ago, 50 percent of the trail was boardwalk....

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Schooner Cove, Pacific Rim National Park

Schooner Cove is a beach located in the Pacific Rim National Park near Tofino and Ucluelet, British Columbia, Canada. To reach the beach you have to take an easy 1km boardwalk trail through beautiful lush rain forest. At the end of the trail you'll reach the sandy beach with beatiful views of the Pacific Ocean. The best time to do the trail is at low tide as you are not able to reach the rocky "islands" on foot when the tide is high.

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Pacific Ocean Sunset

Sunset on the Coast of the Pacific Ocean in Ucluelet on Vancouver Island.

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Ucluelet Pictures Part 1

Found some time on this lazy Sunday to process the pictures from our Ucluelet trip a couple of weeks ago. I'll spread them over a couple of posts and here's the first batch: View from Radar hill in Pacific Rim National Park Mr Tinybird, the hummingbird. A Tide Pool along the Wild Pacific Trail Relaxing in the Jacuzzi in our Terrace Beach Resort Cabin Stay tuned for more. :)

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Mr Coney

Grizzly had surgery last week to remove a small lump and to prevent him from scratching the wound, he has to wear a cone for a while. That doesn't prevent him from traveling and sunbathing though. This is Grizzly sunbathing in the Victoria Harbor at the float plane dock and he doesn't want to be disturbed, not even for food!

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Vancouver Island

It's been a couple of months already but I've just got around taking a look at some of the pictures I took while we were on Vancouver Island during our New Year holiday. Not too much text in this post, just some pictures. Hope you like them. Mount Washington Panorama, Vancouver Island. Campbell river sunset, Vancouver Island. Blue Heron on the Vancouver Island Coast. And a final one not from the island, but from Stanley Park in Vancouver: Prospect Point Panorama, Vancouver

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