Whale Watching The waters around Vancouver Island are well-known for many species of whales, the humpback, the grey and the killer whale amongst others. To see them in their natural habitat, you can book a boat excursion.


Ucluelet This fishing village is situated on the edge of Barkley Sound bay on Vancouver Island and has 1,753 inhabitants. In the harbour you can see many fishing and whale watching boats. The village has beautiful beaches and there are also a number of trails to walk. The Wild Pacific Trail, which runs alongside the nearby lighthouse, is certainly a recommendation.

Pacific Rim National Park This park of almost 50,000 hectares is the only National Park on Vancouver Island. It is situated on the west coast of the island and consists of 3 parts, namely Long Beach, Broken Group Islands and the West Coast Trail. Long Beach is the most well-known of them and attracts most of the tourists. The area runs from Tofino to Ucluelet and has beautiful sandy beaches and old rain forests. The Broken Group Islands consist of more than 100 little islands in the middle of Barkley Sound bay. Finally the West Coast Trail is a 77 km long trail from Bamfield to Port Renfrew in the southwest of Vancouver Island. Originally this trail was formed to help shipwrecked persons to get back to the civilized world. You can walk the trail in approximately 6 days.

Cathedral Grove One of the most popular places of interest in the MacMillan Provincial Park is the Cathedral Grove. Here, there are enormous Douglas pines some of which are more than 800 years old and 76m high. You can find trails through these primaeval forests at both sides of the road. On some of these trails you can still see the marks of the storm which struck the park in January 1997.