Activities

Enjoy long or short hikes year-round in the temperate west coast climate.

Hike 30 minutes through the ancient rainforest to a grove of  some of the largest spruce trees still standing in North America. They average 9 to 12 feet in diameter and are an absolutely breathtaking sight.

Beach comb miles of open Pacific shoreline - a photographers paradise. 

Watch whales, bear, ravens, eagles, hear the plaintive cry of wolves.

Spring
Spring brings wild flowers to the marshy meadows on the property. Grey whales usually return in March and can be seen rubbing themselves on the pebbles of the beach. Storms blowing from the south at this time of year can bring warm Hawaii air.

Summer
Calm water, friendly and inquisitive Grey whales, hot beach pebbles, stars down to the horizon in a crystal clear sky. Swim in the sparkling clean stream, or frolic in the surf. Gather around the campfire.

Fall
Lots of bears on the beach.
Spin casting for Coho or Halibut, right from shore. If you like wild mushrooms, there are many in the woods now..

Winter
Don provided raingear, or experience frighteningly wonderful storms from the comfort of your accommodation, sitting near the fire with a hot drink in one hand and a good book in the other.

For the Fossil Furious
Early tertiary stratigraphy—Nootka sound area

One of the best examples of uplifted deep sea fan in western North America.

Diagnostic fossils in the sandstone and deepwater shale of the Escalante and Hesquiat Formations, late Eocene 40-45 million yrs. B.P. to early Oligocene 35 million yrs. B.P.

The uplifted deep sea fan deposit illustrates the dynamic interaction of the colliding North American plate and the Pacific plate in the geological past.

In the same area, we have a nice exposure of Karmutsen volcanics, Jurassic 170 million yrs. B.P.
 

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