Taking a short drive [40 km] to the smaller nearby town, Ucluelet, for a little hike was more than worth it.
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The Wild Pacific Trail, nice and easy, is a 3K loop with endless numbers of lookouts like this ...
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and this ...
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and this ...
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and lots of greenery ...
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And places to stop and take it in ...
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and a few of these ... bald eagles ... in flight and calling ...
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In the Afternoon
We spent the afternoon on Chesterman Beach.
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On the menu? We brought our Dutch oven and made roasted chicken on the beach ... so yummy!
And when we were done, the wind came up for a spell and some of us went kite boarding, well, one of us [ummm, not me].
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[image source: ejb]
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