Vancouver Island Landscapes

A land inhabited and cared for by the Kwakwaka’wakw, Nuu-chah-nulth, and Coast Salish peoples for millennia, a land battered by Pacific storms and home to a large variety of species. On the coast, Douglas fir, red cedar and hemlock form a rampart against the wind and big waves coming from the Pacific Ocean, waves sometimes so powerful that they carry entire logs and debris all the way up to the tree line.

Once you leave the driftwood-covered coastline for the temperate rainforest, you find yourself surrounded by giant trees draped in moss. The forest floor is like a thick green carpet, it is so soft that it might just swallow a distracted hiker without warning.