BC Adventure : Part 3 : The Beach
June 16, 2017****disclaimer from previous post still applies…. even more so now****
So there we were, finally barefoot on the beach. The sun was out and setting beautifully, and the water was just bearable enough to walk in. I decided that i didn’t want to carry my shoes on the beach so we left them by a log and continued down the beach. There is a small island on this beach that you can walk to if the tide is low, now I didn’t know we were walking in the direction of the island, but Kelsey did. All of a sudden she was right beside it looking in through the trees trying ti find an place to enter through all the trees. Let me remind you, we have no shoes. She called me over as she started to climb into the forest of the island. Next thing you know I’m running barefoot through this island forest trying to keep up with Kelsey, whose legs are much longer than mine! The ground was muddy and freezing cold, so feeling escaped my feet fairly fast. Kelsey promised that it would all be worth it, then she got kinda lost and we were Barefoot and Afraid. Kelsey managed to figure out where we were and somehow we made it to the edge of the island, on a cliff overlooking the ocean and the sunset. She was right, totally worth freezing my feet off.
We sat there a while and watched the sun set. I defrosted my feet on the war rocks of the cliff and apparently there was some guy a few feet away from us trying to catch our attention. I didn’t see him because I was facing the other way, but according to Kelsey he kept throwing up peace signs to get our attention whenever she looked over…
So the sun was almost gone and we figured we should make our way back to the beach while we could still see, so my feet were once again frozen by the ground. Walking on tiny mud paths and crawling over and under tree branches and roots we were almost out of the forest. I was telling Kelsey to slow down because I couldn’t feel my feet, when out of now where this guy with a skateboard appears. **In case you were wondering, it was the guy from the cliff… he followed us through the forest… because why would something like that not happen to Kelsey and I?**. So this guy appears and says, “Barefoot! That’s the right way to do it!”, to which I responded “I feel like I’m getting frost bite!” he then responded back with “No you’re fine, actually the pores on your feet are three times larger than the rest of your body so you absorb more vitamins walking barefoot!”. It was a strange fact to know and share. Kelsey, perplexed as to why he had a skateboard on a beach, sarcastically asked if he skated up there. He chuckled, said no, bid a goodbye and sauntered away with his skateboard never to be seen by us again.****this all happened in the span of 3 hours of us arriving at the hotel…****
Unfortunately the rest of the time we were in Tofino it was quite rainy. Though that did not stop us from frolicking on the beach, or Kelsey from frolicking IN the ocean. The only other people in the water were…well they weren’t people, they were dogs… so needless to say she got some strange looks from people. She was feeling judged until she looked in a mirror and realized she looked like a drowned rat, then understood the strange looks she was being given.