Vancouver Island Vacation Recommendations

[christyf5]

I agree with Steve, Tofino is a bloody long drive for a walk on the beach and a 5 minute tour through town. You don't want to spend your whole day driving. If you need to go to the beach, Botanical Beach or Rathtrevor get the job done for me.

[StirCrazy]

Originally Posted by TheReefGeek

Thanks Steve for the info, I had read about Horn Lake Caving and was planning to go there, I do enjoy caving and they have some neat 3 and 4 hour tours there.

Most people seem to enjoy the west end of the island around Tofino, what is there to do there? It seems to me that most of the stuff to do is alone the east side.

Im not into sitting on the beach, so maybe Tonfino is not the place for me?

the west side is beautiful, bug waves, windy rainy but what you have is the main road running up the east side then there will be a turn off to tofino, so you go there, now to get to another place say north of tofino you have to go all the way ears again to the main road and go north until you find the next west turn off, that is unless you are into logging roads with no directions depending what time of summer you are looking at you might want to go to long beach over night if there is a festival going on like the sand castle competition, it is pretty amazing.

Steve