I had the time and joy of visiting Canada’s Pacific Rim National Park Reserve over the past weekend with my lovely girlfriend. We stayed in a nice little cottage in Ucluelet (just south of the actual park, on Canada’s wet coast) where we had the luxury of a dry roof over our heads. Did I mention that it rained while we were there? As we were driving from Port Alberni to Ucluelet, we had to go over Sutton Pass. With the windshield wipers on full, we drove the rain, then the slush, then the snow, and finally the rain. Never once going over around 60 km/h or turning down the wiper speed from super fast. It was our second day, we decided to go for a walk. It was raining. Not like a typical rainfall on Canada’s west coast. It was like taking a shower, with a fire hose, for an hour; only it took just 5 minutes to be that wet. Once arriving at Wickaninnish beach we (read: I) found ourselves overloaded with camera gear.
I made a quick trip back to the car to drop off a few, unnecessary items. The beach was in it’s west coast beauty. Fog surrounded our small wet bodies as we wandered through the seaweed and driftwood.
