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hiking trails and various facilities are
clearly indicated and easy to reach.
The setting is enchanting, relaxing and
stimulating at once, as well as being ac-
cessible year-round.
Bamfield
Situated on the Barkley Sound fjord on
Vancouver Island's west coast, Bamfi eld
is a charming, rather remote little village
that can be reached from Port Alberni
or Lake Cowichan via a network of for-
est roads that are dusty in summer and
muddy in winter.
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Pacifi c Rim National Park Reserve, Long Beach
Unit.
© Pierre Longnus
The region and its thousand-year-old
forests are a little paradise for out-
door activity buffs and nature enthusi-
asts. Bamfi eld is also one of the start-
ing points of the famous West Coast
Trail
, which cuts through Pacifi c
Rim National Park. This trail extends
over the southeast coast of Barkley
Sound, between the villages of Bamfi eld
and Port Renfrew. This “Lifesaving
Trail,” a 75km-long path, was laid out
at the turn of the century to help res-
cue shipwrecked sailors whose vessels
frequently crashed against the coast's
ominous reefs.
be found around Ucluelet. Migrating
grey whales swim in the coves and near
the beaches here between the months
of March to May, making whale-watch-
ing one of the main attractions on the
west coast.
At the south end of the village, in He
Tin Kis Park
, there is a wooden
walkway leading through a small tem-
perate rain forest beside Terrace Beach.
This short walk highlights the beauty of
this type of vegetation.
Pacific Rim National Park
Reserve, Long Beach
Unit
Tofino
Tofi no, situated at the northwest end of
Long Beach, is a lively town where the
many visitors chat about sunsets and
the outdoors. Spanish explorers Galiano
and Valdes, who discovered this coast
in the summer of 1792, named the
place after Vincente Tofi no, their hy-
drography professor. From mid-March
to mid-April, Tofi no lives for the Whale
Festival, a month in which the global
grey whale population passes through
the region. Every year, close to 19,000
grey whales undertake a 16,000km mi-
Pacifi c Rim National Park Reserve, Long
Beach Unit, generally simply referred
to as Long Beach, begins just outside
Ucluelet and follows the coast until just
before Cox Bay, outside of Tofi no. Along
the way, it offers nine different trails, all
less than 5km long and well indicated
along the Pacifi c Rim Highway.
The park is trimmed with kilometres
of deserted beaches running alongside
temperate rain forests. The beaches,
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