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.

Take advantage of all Tofino has to offer by starting your day with breakfast at the spectacular Long Beach Lodge Resort.

This five-hour sea kayaking tour will take you on a journey to experience extensive areas of prime shorebird habitat only accessible by water.

Join us for an introduction to birding and shorebird identification. We will go over some key points to help you identify and recognize the common shorebird species you can expect to see around Tofino in the spring.

This is the best opportunity to spend some time down on the Tofino mudflats to view flocks of shorebirds foraging and resting during their annual migration north.

with Allison Tremain and Coral Barclay 10:00 am – 4:00 pm Darwin’s Café @ the Tofino Botanical Gardens (1084 Pacific Rim Highway) FREE event, items available for purchase Join local artist Allison Tremain and Cowichan Bay artist Coral Barclay at the Tofino Botanical Gardens celebrating the return of spring with an art show focusing on botanicals and regional and […]

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.

We will get together after a full day of adventure and birding to recap the highlights of the day and share observations.