Two Full Days in Tofino

For our first full day in Tofino, we had a casual early morning of reading and stovetop steel cut oatmeal at our accommodations. We then journeyed to the Tofitian. On the way my wife saw the wonderful drops of water on a small tree.

At the Tofitian we each got a slice of egg pie and a ginger-lemon hot drink.

We had decided to walk downtown, around 45 minutes, and saw this new thing...bus stop, water dispenser, and garbage bin. 

The art on the garbage can was very humorous.

After looking around at familiar places in Tofino, we ate at Shed. We each got the poke bowl and drink, and I got the Brittany Spears (fried pickles). For my drink I tried the chestnut ale from Whistler Brewing company which was quite tasty. 

After doing some more shopping, we walked back to our place and then immediately walked to Chesterman's Beach, images available here. After a rest and light snack of nice brie cheese, we drove to our supper at Wolf in the Fog, a place we have eaten at many times. We decided on a sharing meal, so we started with the ever delicious potato encrusted oysters followed by a seaweed salad. Our main was the seacuterie; marinated octopus, haliwurst, and BBQ' d herring with all the accompaniments. Apologies for the dim pictures, but the lights are always low here at night.

Afterwards we returned to our place, played crib and read with chocolates, then to sleep.

On the second full day, we had breakfast at Roar (for images of the entire Hotel Zed/Roar experience go here). We then drove to town and stopped at the Tofino Distillery for my wife to do a tasting (she really liked the beach fire) while I walked across the street to the wonderful Picnic Charcuterie. The selection and taste of the locally made cured meats was marvelous and the variety of cheeses impressive. They also have a sundry of other things for picnic inside or out.

We then went to Rhino for a handmade donut each, bought some kindling for the stove at our place, picked up a picture at the Roy Henry Vickers gallery, and some bread at the Common Loaf bakery. We then went back to our place for lunch with our meats, cheeses, and bread with a little fire. Our supper was at Roar and the rest of our evening was experiencing another fire, reading, chatting then sleep before driving back home the next day.