Tofino tops list of best spring trips in 2015
National Geographic's Reader's Choice for best spring trip in 2015 is Tofino.Best spring trips in 2015? According to National Geographic, Tofino is a top choice.
In National Geographic's Reader's Choice for best spring trips in 2015, Tofino was named reader's choice destination for its gorgeous beachfront resorts, fine dining surfing, camping, fishing, kayaking and hiking.However, the activity that helped Tofino capture the coveted reader's choice title was whale-watching.
"The waters of Clayoquot Sound off Tofino, a remote hamlet on Vancouver Island’s west coast, are spring feeding grounds for gray and humpback whales and the occasional orca. Up to 20,000 gray whales pass through here each year on their trek north from Mexico’s Baja Peninsula to Alaska’s Bering Strait. The Whale Centre and local tour boat operators offer whale-watching trips, plus bear- and bird-watching tours and excursions to natural hot springs with whale sightings along the way. Since the whales chase salmon, herring, and baitfish into inlet waters, it’s also possible, at times, to spot the giant cetaceans from shore," wrote National Geographic.
Tofino's whale-watching season officially kicked off Saturday, March 14 with the annual Pacific Rim Whale Festival. The event welcomes an estimated 22,000 gray whales to the coastal waters of the communities of Tofino, Ucluelet and Pacific Rim National Park Reserve.
To celebrate the return of the gray whales, Long Beach Lodge Resort is offering two-for-one Marine Adventures throughout March. Resort guests can experience an exclusive, inspiring ocean excursion to view the return of the majestic whales.
