Day 1: At Port Renfrew, waiting to start the trail. Left to right: Me, Herman, Andrew, Cassandra, Sam, Sandy
Day 1: Sam on a ladder
Day 1: The campsite at Thrasher Cove.
Day 2: Morning at Thrasher Cove Campsite
Day 2: Andrew, Sandy, and Sam relaxing
Day 2: Climbing over and around boulders along the ocean. We spent half the day on this kind of terrain.
Day 2: more boulders
Day 2: The skull Herman found on the beach.
Day 2: Sea caves at Owen Point
Day 2
Day 2: On the rock shelf after Owen Point, probably the easiest terrain for hiking.
Day 2: A surge channel cut into the stone shelf.
Day 3: Cassandra and Herman crossing a log. There were a bunch of these crossings, though most are easier than they look.
Day 3: ladders...
Day 3: another ladder
Day 3: Dinner at Cullite Creek campsite with Natalie (above) and Sue (right) who we met a couple times along the trail.
Day 4
Day 4: Andrew and Cassandra coasting away in the cable car. They had these over the major creeks though the water was low enough we usually didn't need them.
Day 4: Sandy with myself in the cable car.
Day 4: Herman and Andrew puling us across.
Day 4: more ladders
Day 4: A short break on the boardwalk through a bog.
Day 4: another log crossing
Day 4: Bald Eagle at Walbran Creek
Day 4: Andrew and Cassandra working on dinner at Carmanah Creek campsite.
Day 4: Sunset at Carmanah
Day 5: Morning at Carmanah
Day 5: Morning with Carmanah Lighthouse in the background
Day 5: Natalie and Sue at Chez Monique's restaurant. It's a little restaurant (patio furniture under a tarp) where you can get a meal and buy some other supplies.
Day 5: Herman, Sam, and Andrew relaxing at Chez Monique's
Day 5: Carmanah Lighthouse
Day 5: The moonscape, an interesting stone shelf along the ocean.
Day 5: Andrew on the moonscape.
Day 6: Our one day of somewhat miserable weather. Raining and barely over 10 Celsius (50 Fahrenheit)
Day 6
Day 6: The group on one of the more interesting bridges.
Day 6: Warming up around a stove before taking a short boatride across the Nitinat Narrows. Ate some crab here just taken out of the water.
Day 6: The hole in the wall.
Day 7: Tsusiat Falls
Day 7: Haven't seen me in awhile, so, self portrait in front of the falls after a swim.
Day 7
Day 7: A creek near Tsusiat
Day 7: What was a nice boardwalk before a storm threw driftwood and other trees onto it. The photo doesn't really do the damage justice.
Day 8: The boiler from the Michigan, a wooden steamship that wrecked about a century ago.
Day 8
Day 8: The final bridge. There are 108 if you stick to the inland trails.