Last Day in Paradise

It's 4.30am and the full moon shines brightly on our last night at the He-Tin-Kis (translates to 'By The Sea' in the Nuu-Chah-Nulth language) Lodge we have been staying in. The light streams through the large picture windows that front onto our balcony and it seems entirely appropriate that this should be our parting memory of what I can only describe as a small part of paradise. It's rather afected us both and we will be sad to leave later this morning.

Yesterday developed into another sunny and relatively (for this latitude) warm day which we spent just pottering about really. We did manage to find Jan a keyring to add to her collection and loitered down at the harbourside in the late afternoon watching (and photographing) the sea lions and gulls that have made this their home. One of the sea lions even waved goodbye!

So just a few hours now and we will be packing our bags once more to embark on the next part of our adventure. Not looking forward to the 6 hour drive. It will probably be longer as I expect we will have plenty of picture-stops on the way to Port Hardy at the very north of the island. So a final memory - the happy couple in Ucluelet: