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The Tofino Lantern Festival (voted Tofino's most popular event by Tofino Time Magazine), was a Raincoast Education Society fundraiser each August, with its cancellation announced in 2021. Since 2018, early September has the week-long Race for The Blue Tuna Shoot-Out [ 12 ] hosted by Tofino Resort + Marina, and Queen of the Peak Women's Surf ...
Tofino, a town of only a few thousand, hosts more than one million visitors each year. Many new resorts are being built in the area to accommodate surfers, beach lovers, storm watchers and golfers. Whale watching is common along the coastal areas of British Columbia as is Pacific storm watching along the west coast of Vancouver Island during ...
The island is located in the Clayoquot Sound region and is the location of Opitsat, the main village of the Tla-o-qui-aht First Nations, and was the location of Fort Defiance, a short-lived American fur-trading post founded by Captain Robert Gray. Meares Island is reachable by boat or water taxi.
In between Tofino and Ucluelet is the Long Beach unit of the Pacific Rim National Park Reserve. Barkley Sound lies southeast of Ucluelet and is a marine area that features the Broken Islands Group unit of the Pacific Rim National Park Reserve. The fishing and scientific research community of Bamfield lies on its farther shore.
Zeballos offers a multitude of outdoor adventures, such as hiking, wildlife viewing, caving, rock climbing, diving, kayaking and fishing. Camping is available in several wilderness locations such as Little Zeballos, Lake Zeballos, and Iron Mine. In Autumn, the Zeballos River draws bears and eagles as spawning salmon struggle upstream.
Kennedy Lake is the largest lake on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada. [1] Located north of Ucluelet on the island's central west coast, the lake is formed chiefly by the confluence of the Clayoquot and Kennedy Rivers.
Clayoquot Sound / ˈ k l ɑː k w ɒ t / [1] [2] is located on the west coast of Vancouver Island in the Canadian province of British Columbia.It is bordered by the Esowista Peninsula to the south, and the Hesquiaht Peninsula to the North.
The British Columbia Coast, popularly referred to as the BC Coast or simply the Coast, is a geographic region of the Canadian province of British Columbia.As the entire western continental coastline of Canada along the Pacific Ocean is in the province, it is synonymous with being the West Coast of Canada.