It may be the Friday of the August long weekend—Vancouver Island’s busiest travel season—but you’d never know it standing out on the cedar deck of a months-old Wya Point Resort luxury lodge, trying to make out Ucluth Beach through the surreal blue-sky fog 200 metres below. Incredibly, even as traffic on the Port Alberni-Tofino highway is reaching its usual congestion, there’s still no one on this particular band of sand located between the Highway 4 junction and the town of Ucluelet. And to accentuate the point, a bear cub suddenly scampers by, and then another in hot pursuit. This in addition to the wheeling bald eagles who’ve been here since check-in.
(Originally published in BC Business, November 2014 issue)
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