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Ucluelet is being
discovered by Sea
Taucalea Restaurant & The Spa
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BC is
Incredible!!!
As Kim and I made it on to the ferry Vancouver Island bound,
we were so excited. We both love heading to the quiet nooks and crannies that
the Island has to offer. This time we were making
our way to the outer cost to the small town of Ucluelet. This incredible
part of the world has almost been untouched by time and the pounding surf hits
this rocky coastline hard.
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Tauca Lea Resort and Spa Ucluelet , British Columbia
This is total escapism. Located at the gateway
to Barkley Sound and the endless stretches of sand at Long Beach
on Vancouver Island , the 3-year-old Tauca Lea Resort and Spa is
worth the trouble of getting there. The rustic West Coast-style
suites all feature water views and fireplaces, and the new Spa
at Tauca Lea ("protected place" in the Nuu-Chah Nulth tribe's language)
is a safe haven on a rainy day. Services include scrubs, wraps,
polishes, massages and facials/pedicures, along with treatments
specifically for men. The Boat Basin Restaurant serves dinner every
evening-West Coast cuisine featuring local fish (including steamed
mussels in saffron cream). After all that, bundle up for a walk
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West Coast Odyssey
Storm watching on the wild Pacific coast
An ancient canopy of red cedars and Douglas firs
sheltered us as
we approached the ocean’s edge on the Wild Pacific Trail. The
old
growth forest seemed to drip down in layers. Lichens and mosses
hung from twisted branches. New trees draped themselves over
the fallen trunks of their ancestors, covered with yellow bracts
of
chicken-of-the-woods fungus that sometimes turned up on local
Vancouver Island menus.
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Spa
Tripping
Check in to these beauty hot spots
Ucluelet, Vancouver
Island
Sleep & Spa Across the island (about a two-hour drive from the
Nanaimo Ferry Terminal or five hours from the Victoria Airport),
choose an intimate suite at the luxurious Tauca Lea Resort &
Spa (www.taucalearesort.com) in Ucluelet, just south of Pacific
Rim National Park and Long Beach.
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UCLUELET,
B.C. -- Ten years ago, when environmentalists waged war against the
logging of old-growth forest in Clayoquot Sound, this rocky peninsula
on the western edge of Vancouver Island was torn between two towns.
To the north was Tofino, a postcard-perfect rain-forest sanctuary
that catered to hippies, protesters and nature-loving yuppies. Thirty
minutes south stood Ucluelet, a tough little working-class village
populated by loggers and fishermen.
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The
sun reflects off the ashen invertebrates clinging to the rocks in
the Thiepval Channel.
Two large ebony eyes break the smooth, clean, clear
ocean; the seal pup searches out its surface surroundings. The wind
carries with it the smell only a West Coast cedar can deliver and
19 metres below the surface the elusive Pacific octopus feels its
way along the ocean’s floor.
It is
calm today as it was on Feb. 27, 1930 when the HMCS Thiepval minesweeper
hit an uncharted rock and sunk to its resting-place in the channel
that now bears its name.
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Another
great new spa on the Island is at Tauca Lea Resort and Spa in Ucluelet
on the west coast. While The Spa at Tauca Lea is more compact at 3,500
sq. ft., the facilities, staff and services are exceptional.
As a first step, Judy took me on a sensory journey,
helping me select the essential oils that she would use for my massage.
Before the massage, Macayla gave me a Detoxifying
Facial for Men, a 90-minute treatment ($105) using purified algae
extract rich in calcium and magnesium. My face felt so pampered
in her skilled hands.
I was further spoiled by Judy's massage, a one-hour
($105), deep-tissue treatment that left me feeling totally relaxed
and rejuvenated.
Tauca Lea is in a beautiful setting on an island
in Ucluelet Inlet. Their deluxe suites are right on the water.
A chief attraction at the resort is the Boat Basin
Restaurant. We enjoyed two sumptuous dinners there. My favourites
included a simple salad of locally grown greens with a red miso
vinaigrette, the same kind of salad dressing that I make at home.
Chef Richard Norwood was gracious enough to print out his recipe,
which he will do for any dish on the menu.
Tauca Lea is one of the gems that is making Ucluelet
an increasingly popular destination. Tofino at the other end of
Long Beach has been the town most people have been attracted to
with its reputation as the Kathmandu of the west coast. But Ucluelet
has its own sense of cool from the sunsets at Big Beach to the easy
walking on the Wild Pacific Trail, an ideal vantage point for the
storm-watching season.
In Ucluelet, I fell in love with the candleholders
I saw everywhere carved out of beach stones. I got the best deal
at The Crow's Nest in Ucluelet village where they started at $14.95.
The
stones I didn't experience were the heated ones used for the Rainforest
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Water,
water everywhere at Ucluelet's Tauca Lea
WE arrived in the dark.
We could admire the buildings of Tauca
Lea by the Sea, stained the colour of the summer ocean; and fell
in love with the simple, rustic furnishings inside our suite; but
it wasn't until the early morning hours that we realized how close
we were to the water.
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Nature's
fury takes center stage on Vancouver Island's wild west coast
TOFINO, B.C. -- The outer coast of
Vancouver Island is the ideal setting for Shakespeare's "The
Tempest." This is a landscape of pummeling storms, terrible
if forgotten shipwrecks, romantic hideaways and fascinating creatures
such as the gray whales and rotund sea lions that frolic along its
treacherous inlets.
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Ucluelet/Tofino
Voted # 1
Getaway in B.C.
Tuesday June 4th, 2002
British Columbians brag that we don't have to leave
the province in the summer because we have everything we want right
here. And, unfortunately for the rest of the world, we really do.
Where else would you find wild mountains edging an unruly ocean,
gentle lakes, rain forest and desert.
Here are our top 10 getaways:
1. Ucluelet/Tofino
2. Okanagan
3. Sunshine Coast
4. Gulf Islands
5. Southern Vancouver Island
6. Quenn Charlottes
7. Whistler
8. Cariboo
9. Campbell River
10. The Rockies
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British
Columbia, Take a Bow
And that's just for starters. In B.C.,
the outdoors is in.
Sunday, August 3, 2003
I'd been gliding easily in my kayak
for about an hour when the skies suddenly opened up. Immediately
yanked off course, I batted the water with my two-pound wooden paddle.
None of my fellow oarsmen was anywhere in view. I had only 10 feet
of visibility, but no matter: With waves twice my height threatening
to capsize my little boat, it would have been more comforting to
keep my eyes shut
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