All attendees are welcome.

Whale watching

The bus will leave at 11:30 am from Tigh-Na-Mara to Victoria. A box luncheon will be provided. The whale watching tour will start around 2:00 pm until 5:00 pm and will take place in open zodiacs, which are safe and great fun. You will be fitted with appropriate clothing for the tour in the zodiac. A professional crew, who consider safety the highest priority, will guide you. In order to give you a chance to see something of Victoria, we will leave Victoria at 8:00 pm and expect to arrive back at Tigh-Na-Mara around 10:00 pm

For more information on the whale watching, please visit www.springtidecharters.com

Kayaking

Alberni Outpost gives kayaking trips for a wide range of experience levels, even for the first time paddler. This is a chance for you to experience the wild life of the pacific coast.
This tour, of course is, weather dependable, but alternative arrangements will be made should the weather be inadequate for your adventure. The tour will be approximately 3 hours, starting at 12:00 noon and finish around 3:00 pm Kayaks and necessary equipment will be provided as well as a box luncheon

For more info please visit the website http://www.albernioutpost.com/tours/kayak/index.jsp

Hiking to Cathedral Grove

Vancouver Island known as Canada's "Paradise on the Pacific" is famous for it's beaches, forests and artisans. Our Cathedral Grove nature tour has a taste of it all, from Parksville beach to Cameron Lake and Cathedral Grove (MacMillan Park) where the largest Douglas Fir trees and the largest accessible, intact Douglas Fir old growth forest on the east side of Vancouver Island grows. Enjoy the exceptional and awesome experience of standing next to trees 250 feet tall, 9 feet in diameter which are over 800 years old. Many rare and endangered plants and animals live in this ancient forest. This will be a 4 hours hike/walk to Cathedral Grove, which includes a stop at Qualicum Falls and Coombs Country Market. A box luncheon will be provided.

For more information please visit www.rainforestnaturehikes.com