Road Trippin.....

It's road tripping time again.  Finally hubby and I had a few days off together and there is nothing we love to do more than to just randomly go on a road trip.

Before I tell and show you where our travels took us yesterday, let me provide you with a little background.

Last spring hubby and his brother bought a boat...what they like to call their "baby".

It's a pretty scukum boat...it has a ton of power and when we are out of the open seas I am truly thankful for that.  Anyhow, the purpose of the boat was of course to go out fishing on the wild west coast, and fishing we did.

My first day out we caught some great tasting salmon.  The seas were a bit rough that day, but we had a great time all the same.  Those were beginning of season spring salmon, they got much bigger as the season progressed.  I also caught my first Halibut that year.  There were many sights to behold out on the wild seas whales being the primary feature.  There were days that there we so many whales you could walk across them.  There were Grey's, Humpbacks and Killer whales aka Orca's.  Here are a couple of photos my brother in law captured....considering  the sea conditions were not ideal on this day and by that I mean there were  6 - 8 foot swells with a 2 foot chop on the water, so I was suitably impress by how well  these photos turned out simply amazing!

That was such a spectacular sight!  Needless to say we were pretty darn happy in Ucluelet last year!
In order that we would be able to enjoy the fishing and the sights we decided that we were going to move our camper up to the campground next to the docks.  That campsite was our home base for almost 5 months.  It was a great fishing season and as a result we are going back for more.

So this brings me to our road trip yesterday. This spring hubby and I purchased a new to us 30 foot 5th wheel.  As much as I enjoyed the camper(she says with tongue in cheek) it was a bit small and we recognized we needed something a little larger.  Hubby searched Craiglist and lo and behold he came across this smokin deal on the 5th wheel....here's My new to me baby....

This will be our home away from home this summer.  This now brings us to our road trip. Of course we could have made our reservations online but what fun would that be.  Hubby and I decided that we needed to go out to Ucluelet and see what they had to accommodate us and to just make a day of it.  So we packed a picnic lunch got Bert into the truck and off we went.  Our journey took us through some mountain passes and I was shocked to see how much snow was still on the ground at certain spots.  We made it to Ucluelet in just over 2 hours.  We went to the office and got the map of sites that they thought we would like, and off we went in search of the site we were going to call home for the next 4 months. After much humming we decided on our spot.  In our travel we came across one of the campers who was there last year.  He told us he had been there for a month already...and by the looks of things he certainly had set up home.  We had a lovely chat and told him we would see him in a month and looked forward to another season.  We picked our spot made our reservations and off we went.

We were not far out of Ucluelet when I asked my hubby to make a turn as I wanted to check out another campground just out of curiosity.  After about 16 or so kilometers on a logging road we figured we missed a turn somewhere but came across the road to Toquart Bay and what a treat this ended up being.
I had often wanted to go and see Toquart Bay as it is a favourite spot for kayakers heading out to the Broken Island group.  I wasn't disappointed once we arrived at our destination.

Toquaht (aboriginal pronounced)Bay is situated between Ucluelet and Bamfield just in off of Barkley sound
http://www.toquartbay.com/history.html It's a beautiful place.  We had our first black bear sighting on the road into Toquart.  It actually came right in front of  truck and santered into the woods.  It happened so quickly that I wasn't able to get a photo of it, but it was a mighty big black bear. I must say I was thankful to be in my truck.
Upon arrival the site was pretty empty except for some vehicles for people who were out kayaking.  We came across the caretaker/owner who told us that in just a few short weeks the park will be full and based on what I saw I can see why.

My photos don't do the place justice, you should check out the link I provided about Toquart the photos they have on their site are amazing!

After our visit to Toquart we decided it was time to start heading home.  We never did end up having our picnic, but I was full from all the beautiful sights that I had the opportunity to behold!