It is recently that I was given the honour to introduce one of the dearest places on earth to one of my dearest friends! You see, my friend Anita had never been to Tofino. Some of you may know that this is my home town, and the homestead of my family since 1905.
Anita had been having some difficulties with her new gear and was wanting to come out for a weekend so that we could spend some time out in the field getting her familiarized with some of the manual settings and all the other greek language that comes along with photography!
She arrived on Thursday and we were promptly off to the photography store spending all her hard earned money getting some much needed gear for the weekend, then Friday morning we hit the road. I gotta tell you that in all my years of travelling back and forth, this has to have been my longest trip ever.... it took us 13 hours to travel those roads. After two hours in the ferry lineup, a trip to Chapters in Nanaimo, an hour long shooting session in Cathedral grove, dinner in Port Alberni and a couple of six month old screaming sessions on the side of the highway, we arrived at our doorstep at 10:30. Well, we got the kids settled into bed, and I promptly had Anita off shooting some long exposures down on Chesterman Beach!
I warned her that in about five minutes we would be heading home again.... sure enough three days passed by in the blink of an eye and we were trying to convince her to stay another night! Tofino is some sort of vortex that sucks you in and doesn't let you go!! But we are home now.... she has returned to her loving husband (my fantabulously talented Chiropractor), and I am trying to make my way through the hundreds of shots that I came home with! One shoot in the pouring down rain after hiking a kilometre and a half board walk, three late night long exposure sessions and a boat ride to see a dead Fin Whale..... I have some spectacular photos in my library now! Oh, what to do with them???
As you read in a recent post, we made a trip back home to the West Coast. Typical west coast style we hit the water.... and this is what we found! Thanks Dad for the fantastic boat trip.... and thank you Neeter for being such a great shooting partner! The only thing this site is missing is the smells and the sounds!!
