#145 Mar 2017 Goats and Groves

In Nanaimo we settled into Living Forest Oceanside Campground and RV Park for a week. It’s a beautiful, treed park with some ocean view sites. One advantage of travelling in March is that we are up in time for sunrise.

We had a view of the Nanaimo River Estuary. Watching the tide change is endlessly fascinating.

Lindsay came over for the weekend and we explored more old growth forest at Cathedral Grove.

Once again, signs can't convey the size of the trees.

This Douglas Fir is over 800 years old.

I almost got the top of the tree in my photo.

Nature does not give up when a tree falls.

Coombs is well known for the goats on the roof of the market.

They're only up there in the summer but we were able to see them in their winter home.

Rathtrevor Park has a great beach to explore. The wind was so strong it almost blew us back to the car but the kite boarders and birds took it in stride.

March 31^st we took the ferry back to the mainland. We could see the estuary and the RV Park from the ocean side.

We never tire of watching everything in, on and around the ocean.

As the ferry arrived at the Tsawwassen Ferry Terminal we knew this trip was just a sample of Vancouver Islands treasures.