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Welcome to the latest series of Super, Neighbours blog posts where we highlight incredible travel destinations in British Columbia!Feast Tofino is back for it’s third year and it’s better and longer than ever. Stretching throughout May, it features “Stay and Dine” packages as well as $29, $39 and $49 “Dine About” set price menus, special events, and celebrates “the abundance of seasonal produce, seafood and sustainable “boat-to-table” practices commonly adopted by the area’s restaurants” and the Tofino-Ucluelet Culinary Guild. In this 5 part series I’m going to show you everything from the ease of travelling to Tofino, to the amazing food you can eat, activities you can try, places you can stay and people you can meet. If you missed it, here’s Part One: Getting There! and Part Two: Ocean Village Resort Presenting Part Three: FEAST!

Okay, I’ve teased you for a few posts now, but it’s finally time to make your mouth water and show off what my trip was actually about…FEAST!

Feast Tofino runs from May 1 to May 31st, and includes events at various restaurants in the area, guests chef dinners, and the $29, $39, and $49 Dine About Town meals!

There are TONS of events happening over the next few weeks, which you can check out by CLICKING HERE, and below I’ll show you a few of the delicious meals that I had while in town!

So on my first evening in town I was guided around by the wonderful Bobby Lax, the Community Food Coordinator for the Tofino-Ucluelet Culinary Guild (which I’ll talk about in my next post!).

Our first stop was SOBO (which I learned stands for Sophisticated Bohemian), where I got to sample some of the best …READ THE REST OF THIS ENTRY>>>

Trish Friesen from Tripstyler and I are now appearing semi-regularly on Global’s new 24 hour news station, BC1! Every couple of weeks we join Jill Krop on her AM/BC program to discuss travel tips. Trish focuses on an international destination and I’m all about places to visit in BC, in the spirit of my Super, Neighbours feature here on our blog.

In our most recent segment, Trish presented London, England as a destination and I countered with Harrison Hot Springs, BC. Check out the segment below and have a great long weekend, whether you spend it in Vancouver or get out of town.

Welcome to the latest series of Super, Neighbours blog posts where we highlight incredible travel destinations in British Columbia! Feast Tofino is back for it’s third year and it’s better and longer than ever. Stretching throughout May, it features “Stay and Dine” packages as well as $29, $39 and $49 “Dine About” set price menus, special events, and celebrates “the abundance of seasonal produce, seafood and sustainable “boat-to-table” practices commonly adopted by the area’s restaurants” and the Tofino-Ucluelet Culinary Guild. In this 5 part series I’m going to show you everything from the ease of travelling to Tofino, to the amazing food you can eat, activities you can try, places you can stay and people you can meet. If you missed it, here’s Part One: Getting There! Presenting Part Two: Where to Stay!

So I told you about how to get to Tofino in my last post and today I get to share one of the places you can call home on your trip!

There are so many incredible places to stay in Tofino, and Bob has highlighted a few on his previous trips, but when I saw I would be staying at the Ocean Village Resort I was pretty excited…

They’re located on beautiful McKenzie Beach just a few minutes from the airport and downtown Tofino and have a wide range of housing options!

The cabins at Ocean Village are known for their “beehive” design, and are available in single-story 1-2 bedroom units or upper and lower studios. Each cabin features a private bathroom with a shower and full size tub, full kitchen, bed linens and towels, private entrance, private patio and …READ THE REST OF THIS ENTRY>>>

Welcome to the latest series of Super, Neighbours blog posts where we highlight incredible travel destinations in British Columbia!Feast Tofino is back for it’s third year and it’s better and longer than ever. Stretching throughout May, it features “Stay and Dine” packages as well as $29, $39 and $49 “Dine About” set price menus, special events, and celebrates “the abundance of seasonal produce, seafood and sustainable “boat-to-table” practices commonly adopted by the area’s restaurants” and the Tofino-Ucluelet Culinary Guild. In this 5 part series I’m going to show you everything from the ease of travelling to Tofino, to the amazing food you can eat, activities you can try, places you can stay and people you can meet.Here is Part One: Getting There!

I haven’t been to Tofino in almost 10 years I’d say…and after this trip, I don’t know what I was thinking waiting so long. As I’m sure you’ve noticed, our fearless leader, Bob Kronbauer, has frequented this oceanside paradise more than a few times in the last few years, and I’m glad he let me have the chance to cover Feast Tofino this go around!

I had never been to the South Terminal at YVR before, nor had I even flown in a plane to Tofino, so this was all new to me! The kind people at Destination British Columbia set me up with a flight on Orca Airways, and I navigated my way to the terminal with ease: Canada Line to the airport, down the elevator and sauntered over to the shuttle pick up for the South Terminal.

Once there, I checked in, in a matter of 2 minutes (seriously), and decided to have a beer and lunch on the patio (no lies) of the cafe attached to the airport.
Yes, I’m not making this up…it’s the heaven of airports.

I’ve been in a floatplane once before, and flew around Howe Sound last year, but never travelled in one of this awesome little planes that …READ THE REST OF THIS ENTRY>>>

Welcome to the latest series of Super, Neighbours blog posts where we highlight incredible travel destinations in British Columbia! Last summer during Tofino’s Feast BC celebration I went out on THIS salmon fishing adventure with a premium outfit called Cleanline Sportfishing who offer every type of guided fishing trip you could want. The previous April I went on what I deemed THE ULTIMATE FISHING EXCURSION with them. Cleanline has taken me on a couple of unforgettable trips on the water and this last one was no exception; here I learned that “ultimate” is entirely relative. This trip was actually the ultimate family fishing excursion in Tofino, which was also great from a sportfisherman’s point of view.

Our Christine McAvoy was in Tofino this past weekend gathering a Feast BC story to share, so I fiugured I’d better hurry up and write part 2 before we overlap!

So in PART 1 I brought you along with my wife, our 4 year old son and I as we brought up a crab trap then also a bounty of spot prawns. A couple of hours was all our little guy could muster, so we dropped him and my wife (and the haul of prawns and crabs!) off out the dock and headed back out onto the seas to drop some lines.

Our guide Blake on Cleanline’s primary vessel, holding a couple of our crabs

This was the second day that the halibut fishery was open for the year, and so far none of the local guides had reeled any in with their clients. There had been a gale warning for the area the previous day, and the same warning was in place the day we went out, so nobody could even get out into the deeper water where the halibut lurk. It’s my favourite fish to eat and I really wanted to bring one home but instead of risking a shipwreck we put out some lines for salmon fairly close to shore.
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Trish Friesen from Tripstyler and I are now appearing semi-regularly on Global’s new 24 hour news station, BC1! Every couple of weeks we join Jill Krop on her AM/BC program to discuss travel tips. Trish will focus on an international destination and I’ll be all about places to visit in BC, in the spirit of my Super, Neighbours feature here on our blog.

Today I attempted to weigh quaint and rural Galiano Island against the glitz of Dubai! Watch the segment below.