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sealions on haul-out rock |
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Michigan Creek beach access markers |
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Kamel using the local furniture |
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Since you're fixing up your feet, so will I! |
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C&K in cable car crossing the Klanawa River |
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Tsusiat Falls with driftwood furniture |
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C&E in the "hole in wall" at Tsusiat Point |
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Boardwalk through the Dididat Reserve land |
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Kamel hiking beside Tsuquadra Point, one of the many impassible headlands. |
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Awesome tidepools on flats below the Carmana Lighthouse |
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Tide pools and the inter-tidal zone along Pacific Rim NP are protected by Parks Canada, but pictures like this are allowed. |
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Erin steping across the slippery, fractured layers of sandstone and shale alone the tide flats |
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Erin spotted this nurse log beside the trail. Massive, fallen, decayed trees are seed germination beds, and they feed the roots of developing trees - Western Hemlock. |
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Most ladders on the trail like lots of company. Sometimes you'll find eight in a row, strung together down the steep valley walls. Christine is stepping down only one here. |
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I think my dad took this same shot when he hiked the trail in '96. |
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Grateful for her hiking poles, Erin steps across a water-filled mud pool along a slippery, bobbing log. Ah yeah, that's the trail! |
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Winning her battle against fear of heights, Christine takes her last steps across the Logan Creek suspension bridge. |
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On our last day of hiking, we start out early to cross Owen Point, passible at low tides only. |
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Amazingly, none of us slipped to our deaths as we jumped across this 3 foot surge channel. Doesn't look like much, but it was really scary, ask Christine. |
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Nifty caves along the shore at low tide between Owen Pt and Thrasher Cove. In '96, Dad, Andy, Peter and I hiked the inland trail. Look what we missed! |
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Chris and Chris outside the caves |
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Our last day was the most challanging, here are more reasons - big boulders |
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There are 108 bridges along the 75 km West Coast Trail. The last bridge crossing! |
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