{"id":21764,"date":"2010-02-01T22:01:27","date_gmt":"2010-02-02T05:01:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/?p=4782"},"modified":"2016-09-13T18:48:32","modified_gmt":"2016-09-13T15:48:32","slug":"a-tofino-morning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/a-tofino-morning\/","title":{"rendered":"A Tofino Morning"},"content":{"rendered":"

Quiet hour at Whaler’s on the Point starts at 11, so that’s when I shut off the computer and went up to have a shower. The showers here are very roomy and clean with good pressure. By the time I got back to the room, my two roomies were sound asleep, so I decided to turn in also. I can’t remember the last time I went to bed before midnight!<\/p>\n

I had a pretty good night, even with one roomie snoring and there being a bright orange streetlight illuminating the room. I got up around quarter to nine and hiked down to the ‘Uncommon Bakery’ to get coffee since I hadn’t thought to bring my French press and own coffee supplies. A cup of joe was $1.75, and this with my bringing my own mug. Were my stay longer than a couple of days, I would have turned around and gone to the supermarket to get my own supplies.<\/p>\n

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virew from dorm room \\’N\\’, which is very similiar to the view from the atrium, directly below<\/p><\/div>\n

Coffee in hand, I returned to the hostel to make breakfast and plan my day. There are numerous hiking options near Tofino, so I decided to spend my day exploring the trails. There weren’t really any other frugal options for today, with museums and shops being shut tight for the winter. I would have loved to take a cruise to Hot Springs Cove, but that’s something that my budget this week just can’t absorb. I’m just grateful to be in Tofino and getting a taste of the area.<\/p>\n

Since all the hiking trails and beaches are located in Pacific Rim National Park, visitors require a day pass to use the facilities. At least, unlike Banff<\/a>, you don’t need a pass to just drive through the park. A day pass is almost eight dollars, but the hostel rents them for just five dollars, so that was one more reduced expense.<\/p>\n

There’s a small full-service ‘Co-Op’ grocery store in Tofino, so I stopped there to get snack materials, intending to return to the hostel for a late pasta lunch before going out for dinner at a restaurant on the edge of town offering good Monday night specials.<\/p>\n

The sky was misting as I pulled out of Tofino and I knew that rain was forthcoming. I had brought my full rain gear, so I had no excuse not to get out into the rain forest and the beach even if spending the day by a hot fire with a good book sounded pretty appealing.<\/p>\n

First stop, the Bog Trail…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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