Yukon Ho!

June 5, 2006: More Tofino

All the fam left Monday morning and there was a huge tearful good-bye that went from about 8-10am.
Sean and I had the villa to ourselves for an hour before check-out so we nerded out on the laptop for a while before we packed up and drove down the highway to Green Point Campground. We booked a couple nights there and immediately emptied the entire van into their parking lot so we could re-pack and separate the bike gear from the “leaving behind” gear.
When we finally finished there we drove back into Tofino and rented surfboards and wetsuits from a grizzled dude named Ralph at the Long Beach Surf Shop. Ralph strapped the boards to the roof racks of the van, waxing lament over the lack of new girls in Tofino during the winter, but loving how lovely it was once summer rolled around and wild and unknown women came in by the VW vanload. He also asked where we were surfing and gave us some tips about which beaches were best at which time of day before he bid us farewell and happy surfing and went back to razzing his staff. Since my sister had scammed us a parking pass for Pacific Sands and you have to pay to park in every lot on Tofino, we parked at the resort and surfed at Cox Bay. After a couple hours there we were starving so we drove back into Tofino and got huge awesome sandwiches at Breaker’s Cafe.
By that time we were kind of wiped out (sooooo much vacation all at once!) so we drove back to the campsite and walked down to the beach with a backpack full of beer. That lasted about an hour and a half and then we started to get cold so we hiked back up to the tent and went to bed before the sun had even set.

Amy