Beach walks

Beaches are an ever changing landscape, depending on the time of day, where the tide is, the weather, and so on.  It's always interesting.

Snow in the foreground, Frank Island in the distance

Frank Island, privately owned, can only be reached at low tide.  Once there, on the far side, there's a good view of the lighthouse on Lennard Island.  Caroline Woodward has written an excellent book, Light Years: a Memoir of a Modern Lighthouse Keeper, which tells how she and her husband started working on the lights, and the challenges they faced.  This CBC interview from 2015 has photos taken from the Lennard light, where they were working, and may still be living.

These people are about to fall off the edge of the world...

Of course at the end of the day, a beach is a wonderful place to watch the sunset:

Sculptures

It's fun to come across interesting sculptures when you're least expecting them.  The first was between the beach and the Wickaninnish Inn:

Three crows with snowy backs look out to sea

Salmonwolf

One night we went for dinner at the Wolf in the Fog restaurant, and were seated near this driftwood sculpture.  It's by Guthrie Gloag  - he's a BC biologist and artist.

Of course Nature provides transient natural sculptures, like this one:

Kelp on the beach, with dog

Tofino weather

We had the most delightful week in Tofino, experiencing a range of weather that amazed even the locals.  Some days we had quite a variety all in one day: sun, cloud, rain, sleet, and snow! Oh and hail too!

Surfers in the water despite the sleet coming down...

Of course when the sun came out the beach was transformed:

The sun came out while we were in town walking around:

The Coast Guard station and Meares Island

And a few days later we were back to winter snow:

The world became grey and white...