LONG WEEKEND IN TOFINO: OCEAN VILLAGE, EATS, ISLANDS, SURFING
Well, it’s back to reality after an amazing long weekend in Tofino to celebrate our three year anniversary! We stayed at Ocean Village Resort and arrived Friday night to some beautiful views.
Ocean Village Resort is a number of cabins with gorgeous beachfront views, basically right in Tofino on Middle Beach.
Our cabins worked perfectly for our surf weekend… cozy, a full kitchen, hot shower, great views, and close to the beach.
Not to mention that they don’t charge extra for long weekends unlike everywhere else in Tofino and they are quite reasonable.
Great location! They are doing some renovations for summer so I’m looking forward to seeing what they are going to be adding in or updating.
They also have an indoor salt water pool and hot tub which I thought was rad since I’m not a fan of chlorine.
Unfortunately I didn’t take many photos this weekend, especially not while surfing since we were just trying to enjoy ourselves so bear with me here.
On Saturday we spent some time exploring Ucluelet…
Then it was off to dinner at the Spotted Bear Bistro with our friends Liv and Rob. Wonderful company, good food.
Then we headed out to surf that night with Liv. Not too bad… small waves at Chesterman’s and a gorgeous sunset. Too bad we were super rusty after a winter away from the surf!
On Sunday we headed out with a number of friends to the Clayoquot Island Open House… on a boat!
This island is amazingly beautiful… maintained by two people, completely private, except for the open house that they host once a year. The gardens are stunning… they are fully self-sustainable with solar power, full vegetable and fruit gardens etc…
We had a lot of fun exploring with friends.
I loved that they grew their own mushrooms to eat!
So many beautiful plants and flowers.
Time to head home!
Then we had our special 3 year anniversary dinner at our favourite restaurant in Tofino, the Pointe Restaurant at the Wickaninnish Inn.
We ate way too much food…
I had the scallops and dungeness crab (a custom order I always get when I am there), Allan had the tuna in a miso broth, for entrees I ordered the Sloping Hills Pork three ways (so good) and Allan had the lamb two ways… we split an order of the pea and marscapone ravioli with our mains. The ravioli was incredible.
Then we headed out to surf again… this time at long beach with Greg. The waves were HUGE and while I caught one amazing wave… it was way overhead and much too big for our first weekend back in the water… so we dropped Greg and Sanazj off at our cabin so they could take a hot shower and then headed out to North Chesterman’s at around 10:00 PM and surfed till about 11 PM. Yeah, it was reaaaaally dark. Surfing by moonlight pretty much.
In the morning we woke up and surfed North Chesterman’s again and checked out of Ocean Village. We caught some amazing waves and the conditions were fabulous. Best surf session of the weekend.
Overall an amazing weekend… a great anniversary with the best man in the world, and we can’t wait to get in the water again soon!
Tags: boat, Clayoquot Island, food, friends, gardens, Ocean Village, open house, Resort, Spotted Bear Bistro, Surfing, The Pointe Restaurant, Tofino, Tofino blog, Travel, Ucluelet, Wickaninnish Inn
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May 25th, 2010 at 12:10 pm
You have been eating non-stop! haha
Cool you had good waves finally and had so much fun!
The gardens looks amazing
Love!
xxx
May 25th, 2010 at 12:32 pm
what a great weekend and i’m so glad rob and I got to hang out with you and Allen. It was a lot of fun and lots of great conversation.
love your sunset photo at ocean village and looks like you had a yummy meal at the Wik. We ended up at Shelter and were fully stuffed! pretty pictures too from the garden day tour – what a neat experience.
when i woke up this morning to the light drizzle all i could think about was being out in the water again….i really wished I came out to surf with you on mon morning at north chesterman but we had to get going. I won’t be back til Sept. Boo.
May 25th, 2010 at 1:02 pm
I love the shot with the swing in Clayoquot Island:)
May 25th, 2010 at 6:26 pm
Oh my goodness. Tofino is calling to me. So amazing that you got to spend some quality time with Liv. Love that woman.
Your photos are beautiful and that food looks downright delicious!
*Kelsey
May 25th, 2010 at 7:34 pm
I just love it when you write about Tofino. It makes me miss that beautiful place so much. Pining for Vancouver Island from the other side of the world!
May 26th, 2010 at 5:39 am
Seeing those pics makes me wanna visit Tofino! If I’ll have the chance to go to Canada some day I’ll try to go over there.
It seems like a full and great trip! And the gardens are amazing!
I’m glad you had a good time celebrating your 3 years aniversary!:)
xxx
- Laura
May 26th, 2010 at 12:00 pm
Great pics as always! Happy Anniversary!
May 26th, 2010 at 12:25 pm
I used to stay at the Ocean Village Resort every summer with my family when I was a kid. Your photos brought back so many good memories of fun times.
Happy Anniversary- looks like you had a wonderful trip!
June 7th, 2010 at 1:56 am
Wow you really had fun! The photos were awesome. And the food, nom nom! They look yummy. I can’t wait to see Tofino. We’re heading there this summer and I am so excited!