I tried surfing in TOFINO. Was it WORTH IT?

Hello! Our west west coast adventure continues today and we are in Tofino. What brings so many people up and over the windy mountain pass to visit this town? We're gonna find out. Canada's premier storm watching and surfing destination can be found on the western coast of Vancouver Island in British Columbia. All right so our first stop of the day was at the visitor centre. We've learned quite a bit of information actually. So several of the beaches are within the Pacific Rim National Park and you do require a parks pass in order to go to those beaches on any of the trails, lookouts, etc. There's also a free shuttle that goes from the visitor centre into town near the co-op. You can take your surfboard if you want. I should also mention that you can buy the parks pass either at the visitor centre or at the parking lot kiosks within the park. For example, for just the day is $21. If you're just going to Long Beach, which is a very popular surf beach, you can pay a four-hour beach pass for I think it was $6.50. All right I got my breakfast. I bought a fruit and nut tea and a oat muffin from the Tahitian Cafe and Bakery. It smells really, it smells like an oatmeal cookie. At the local park they have all sorts of shoes hanging on a wire up above. Someone even put some ski boots up there. So they've given me this wetsuit. It's kind of wet. So what is the number one activity in Tofino? Surfing. And Mel is learning how to surf right back there. Mel has never surfed before so this is going to be fun. Now it's the exciting part. Mel is heading down to the water. Mel just got back in from surfing. How was it? I'm exhausted. I didn't think two and a half hours was going to be a very long lesson but honestly I don't think I could go any longer. I'm just, oh my gosh, so tired. It is hard but really fun. Gosh the instructors are awesome. They're so encouraging. They get you through the safety stuff, the warm-up, the details, and then they get you out in the water and like just go for it. It's so much fun. All I've got in my head right now is power peanut, crowd seal, four point, ninja. Hopefully I will remember that for one day when I get to surf again. So this is Long Beach just about 15 minutes outside of Tofino and it is a really long beach. It's also a very beautiful beach. The sand here is super silky soft. It just stretches for such a long distance as far as the eye can see and as you can see from the people all around us it's very popular. Just before you come down onto the beach there is some signs posted about the different rip currents here and areas to avoid like around the rock just here. They've got washrooms, they've got change rooms. We are just taking a quick break in the shade. We've had a lot of sun today. Remember if you're out here and it's sunny put on lots of sunscreen. I got a sunburn on my legs. I completely forgot to put suntan lotion on the back of my legs. Make sure every inch of you is covered. We found the secret quiet beach. Calmer waters for swimming. The water's cold but Mel went in earlier today so I've got to go for a dip too. How you feeling? You're gonna get it boo. Oh you really want it. No birds today. Sorry. All right we are back at Long Beach and if surfing in Tofino isn't an option for you or maybe just not your thing you can go boogie boarding. A wetsuit for me because you know the water is cold and I'm a We're just gonna frolic in the waves. One of these is definitely cheaper than a surfboard. It's about 20 bucks just for the board. If you happen to want a wetsuit like me then wetsuit and board is somewhere around like 35-40 bucks or so. For our trip to Tofino we actually had to stay in Ucluelet at the Ucluelet campground and that is because we apparently did not book early enough. We booked our campgrounds two months in advance for this trip and everything in Tofino was fully booked. We were lucky to get something here in Ucluelet actually. So hot tip if you are wanting to come out to Tofino to camp plan very very well in advance and get your campgrounds booked early. Oh there's so many cars the noise is loud. Okay is information about Make sure you don't miss the next video by liking subscribing and turning on notifications. Thanks for joining us and we'll see you in the next one.