Vancouver Island

Kennedy Lake on Vancouver Island's untamed west coast.

Leaving Port Angeles, Washington

A photo journal through Vancouver Island. All photos posted here were taken on 120 format (60mm) film.

Leaving Port Angeles, Washington. Located at the northern tip of the Olympic Peninsula on the US mainland. I crossed the Juan De Fuga Straight to Vancouver Island in Canada.

Farm outside the city of Courtney

Marina in the town of Comox

Comox Valley

I traveled up the island to the Comox Valley in hopes to climb the Comox Glacier, bad weather made me to switch to other things.

Shipwreck, Comox Bay

Reality check, logging is still a major part of the industry. The logging companies rule most of the island.

The Comox River carries the melt off of the Comox Glacier to the Straight of Georgia, separating the island from the Canadian mainland.

Logging road in the remote area northwest of Comox Lake. These roads are only open to the public after 6pm and before 6am. Between these hours, logging trucks are blazing up and down the dirt roads.

The moss covered forest of Elk Falls Provincial Park, outside of Campbell River

The 50th Parallel

The farthest north I made it was town of Campbell River, just past the 50th Parallel.

Elk Falls Provincial Park

Campground, Elk Falls Provincial Park

The maze of inlets and inlands at the southern end of Clayoquot Sound, a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve. The Pacific Ocean is just to the left.

Clayoquot Sound

The Remote West Coast /

Pacific Rim Nat'l Park

I traverse the island from the inside passage to Pacific Rim Nat'l Park along the island's only highway to the remote west coast. I crossed many lakes and inlets tucked in the Vancouver Island Ranges on the way.

Cameron Lake on the way to the west coast.

Mountains along the Kennedy River Canyon

The Pacific Coast in Pacific Rim Nat'l Park

Surfers at Combers Beach, Pacific Rim Nat'l Park

Boardwalk trails through the rainforest

Grice Bay, an inlet of Clayoquot Sound

Fishing boats, Ucluelet, West coast of Vancouver Island.

Tofino and Ucluelet

The only two towns on the west coast are Tofino and Ucluelet.

Marina, Ucluelet

A pier under rare sunny skies in the town of Tofino. Tofino is the end of the road.

The port of Tofino

Marina, Ucluelet

Marina, Ucluelet

The Pacific seen from the campground

Kennedy Lake, near Pacific Rim Nat'l Park

Old growth forest along the Pacific Rim Highway

Heading East and South

I head back to the east coast stopping off at Great Central Lake and a forest reserve. Then head south to capital city of Victoria to catch my ferry back to the US mainland.

A side road, not the highway

Great Cental Lake, located almost right smack in the center of the island.




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