Weir's Beach, BC

Don't be confused, we're at Weir's Beach, but it's the one on Vancouver Island, BC, not the Weir's Beach on Lake Winnipesaukee in New Hampshire. We arrived here late this afternoon after a 200 mile drive from Tofino. Towing 200 miles shouldn't take almost 6 hours, but for half that distance we were on the cross-island highway, #16, which is narrow and winding and we had to keep our speed way down.

We have been in the rain forest for the past 5 days, but today we drove inland and saw densely forested mountain peaks.

Narrow, winding road with...

some steep grades!

Interior mountains on Vancouver Island.

Of course there were lots of logging trucks, including this one with some pretty good-sized logs.

Frederick suggests the title - "Before & After" - for this picture.

Toward the east coast the forests were inhabited by some very impressive trees.

Groves of old growth trees.

View from our site at Weir's Beach. The Airstream is parked one RV back from this beach.

We can see this sand bar off the beach from the kitchen window. That's a Blue Heron (click the picture to enlarge), we've been told. We were also told that she has three youngsters, but we haven't seen them yet.

Across the bay from our RV park is Victoria.

This ship, we were told, has been sitting out in the bay for about two weeks. The owning company, Hanjin, has gone bankrupt and ships all over the world are just sitting outside ports waiting for the funds to pay the docking fees before they can unload their cargo.

You might be able to just make out Mt. Baker which is a huge mountain located in the Cascades of northwestern Washington State, due east of Bellingham.