This course focuses on the rich marine environment that plays an integral role in life on this coast.
Learn about local history, cross-cultural understanding, businesses and activities, festivals, host etiquette, and important civic information.
We will kick off the Tofino Shorebird Festival with a social evening to celebrate the migration of the shorebirds, meet other bird enthusiasts, and go over the festival schedule while enjoying food and drink.
This trip will be an all-day excursion to some of the offshore banks and canyons in search of albatrosses, shearwaters, storm-petrels and other pelagic birds.
This five-hour sea kayaking tour will take you on a journey to experience extensive areas of prime shorebird habitat only accessible by water.
Coral will guide you through watercolour techniques for painting birds and flowers and an ancient technique of printing with real plants from the rainforest.
One of the most unique experiences in Tofino, join a Nuu-chah nulth guide for a paddle in a traditional dugout cedar canoe up Lemmens Inlet to the mudflat area to explore the mudflats at high tide
For this fun event, we will craft our own sets of ‘binoculars’ and go for a walk to see what we can see.
Allison will guide you through an ancient technique of printing with real plants from the rainforest. You will bring a visual and personal representation of the west coast home creating your very own authentic botanical print.
Join us aboard the M.V. Lukwa for a unique trip through some of the most ecologically important and spectacular habitats on the west coast.
This trip leaves Tofino and explores the waterways of Clayoquot Sound as we venture offshore to the Cleland Island Ecological Reserve, one of the premier sites in Clayoquot Sound for seabirds.
Learn about local history, cross-cultural understanding, businesses and activities, festivals, host etiquette, and important civic information.
Shaping an environmentally sustainable future for the Clayoquot and Barkley Sound region through education and community stewardship
