This article was produced by National Geographic Traveller (UK). Set on Vancouver Island’s wild western shore, Tofino is a town surrounded by windswept beaches and coastal rainforest. It has a hippy ...
“Have you traveled or been in contact with anyone who has visited Liberia, Sierra Leone or Guinea in the past 21 days?” The question startled me. I hadn’t been outside the U.S. since the Ebola crisis ...
In many ways, it seems the nearly 2,000 residents of Tofino, British Columbia, are folks who visited for a long weekend, a few weeks or a summer, and simply could not leave. Their bodies, or perhaps ...
A couple of years ago, I was at a house party in San Francisco when the conversation turned to a place called Tofino. “TO-WHAT-O?” I asked. “TO-FIN-O,” four people said at once, then took turns ...
Wickaninnish is a name you'll need to learn to pronounce if you plan to visit the Pacific Rim area of Vancouver Island. Wick-a-nin-nish! Hey, that's easier to say than to spell. The name is used at ...
As the burnt-orange sun sank into the sea, a half-dozen walkers on the beach stopped, stared and clapped at the particularly gorgeous sunset. That was the evening’s big entertainment at Tofino, B.C., ...
The lights are back on in Tofino and Ucluelet after about 4,000 households lost power this morning. Power was knocked out for residents of Vancouver Island’s two west coast communities just after 6 ...
Environment Canada is warning West Vancouver Island to prepare for a wet evening, issuing a rainfall warning for the region.
VANCOUVER, British Columbia -- Five people died after a whale watching boat with 27 people on board sank off Vancouver Island on Sunday, and one person remained missing, Canadian authorities said. The ...