Mooritzzz in Canada: Tofino

Hello my dear audience. Last weekend we went to an amazing trip to Tofino. Tofino is a little town on Vancouver Island and is 369 km away from Whistler. We rented 3 cars for 16 people and after everybody arrived in the school the journey could begin. We drove into the direction of Vancouver and took the ferry to Vancouver Island. On this Friday it was raining cats and dogs (funny expression, isn't it?) and so it wasn't so comfortable to wait about 1.5 h in the car in the line-up in front of the ferry. They had the police on the ferry who frisked the whole boat for a reason they wouldn't tell us.
After the arrival on the island and a big shopping in one of those huge malls next to the highway we headed towards Tofino which is on the other side of the island. But a trip with 3 cars isn't so easy. A lot of the times we were too fast so the others couldn't follow us, hehe.. :-) It took us always a lot of time to meet again. We left the highway and took the road through the island. It was as dark as in the ass of a cow (sorry about this coarse expression) and it still rained as if the was a leak in the sewage system of Petrus. While we driving and enjoying the noise of the bad radion reception suddenly every car in front of us stopped. We had to pass a intersection where there was at least 25 cm of water on the street!! This section of the road was about 50 m long. On the left and the right side you could see water falls running down the hills towards the street. That was quite sick!
Another thing which was funny was that you could see a lot of pumpkins everywhere right next to the road. This must be a kind of tradition that you put your pumpkin after halloween just next to the main road. After every turn you could see the pumpkin staring the passing cars out of the forest.
After a 8-h-drive we finally arrived in Tofino. We installed ourselves in the two condos we booked for our 5-days-stay. Then we cooked a nice dinner and made a little house party.
The next day it was still raining but that couldn't keep us from going to the sea to watch the Volcom Stone's Beaverfish Surf Series Contest on Long Beach. To see them surfing motivated me so much I almoust grabbed any surfboard and jumped into the freezing sea. But I had to be patient.
Next day after curing everyone's hangover we packed our boardshorts and towels and headed to the surfschool. With all the equipment in a swiss army truck (yes that's true) we went to the Long Beach and tried to surf the Canadian waves. It was really different to my first surftrip this sommer in France. The water was about 12 degres cold so you have to wear a thick wetsuit with gloves, a hoodie and also some neoprene shoes. Fitted with all this equipment the surf could begin. We had a lot of fun although we didn't catch a lot of waves. After the surf session everybody needed something to drink because the saltwater dried up every throat. The owner of the our condos who also arragend the appointment whith the surfschool invited us to a 5 star hotel on the Beach. For mere mortals (Normalsterbliche?) like us it was impossible to stay there for a night. One suite costs about 400 to 1000 dollars a night.. But for one drink it was ok. Jorge the owner told us to drink a "Caesar" which is a special North American drink. I expected nothing special but after I tried I was shocked. The drink was spicy as chili and not really drinkable. :-) I don't reccomend it to you but if you are curious here is the recipe: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caesar_(cocktail)
The next day a lot of us went to a whalewatching trip, but me and 3 others stayed at home und went surfing again! I took a shorter board but I had to make a lot more effort on this one also because we partied very hard the night before.. :-)
On Tuesday it was time for us to leave this nice town. We said goodbye to jorge, the owner of the condos who housed us (beherbergen?) very good. On the return journey everybody was asleep in the car and exhausted of this long weekend. We had a great time and partied every night.. :-)
Jorge described Tofino like this: This drinking town has a surfing problem...

Now we are back in the every day life of Whistler, which is not so bad either. I'm still looking for a job as an instructor and hope that it'll work. Beside that there's a lot to do, even if there's no snow yet.
That's it for now. Below some pictures of Tofino. I have to go climbing now. See you guys!