in today's video we continue our Vancouver Island road trip and finally
began making our way south so let me warn you guys you're in for a lot of rain in this
episode the plan was to drive from Port Alice to Comox while taking a few
detours to go hiking but that didn't happen the weather had other plans and
since there was a bit of a deluge going on and we kind of wanted to stay dry we
had to adapt so if you're down for some adventuring down logging roads or random
car chats and a cute deer or two then come and join us for this rainy day of
driving good morning good morning guys greetings from Woss Woss W O S S yeah so it's a
small little town we've been driving for a while we say goodbye to port alice after
spending 4 nights there yeah really great adventure in the northern part of
Vancouver Island didn't we yeah yeah so now we are heading back down to the
Comox Valley Courtney area yes and yeah we're gonna have four more nights there
to do some more adventures maybe a bit of island hopping yep and well it's a
bit of a long drive I think it's going to take us around three and a half hours
so making stops along the way this is one of the first ones yeah earlier we
went to a Nimpkish Lake is that right Nimbus leahy river another logging road
we kind of went on trail for a little bit who's raining and then we've just
been driving for a while we filled up at a cool petrol Canada station that had
Orca paintings had some really cool murals and now we're in woss and we
kind of drove through the little town and we came out to this this is
basically like a logging road bridge and you get a fantastic view of the river
from here so we're gonna have a quick little picnic yes and then we continue south
so then we continue south so yeah we'll be making more stops along the ways yeah
bring you along for that so we've headed off to the logging roads here yeah
actually we're driving down our logging road these are roads that are open by
the logging companies you can still use them but
you have to be careful because it's all dirt and gravel and a little bit of
muddy and potholes and so if you're gonna come use these roads sometimes
it's better to come with a vehicle yeah 4x4 or all-wheel drive something with a
little bit more spunk we are driving a Toyota rav4 and we're driving on rock
and dirt mode so it's like a 4x4 right you've got more response so yeah we are
in our right in the middle of the forest here it's just beautiful beautiful total
wilderness and yeah lots of potholes or potholes you know Madison it's a nice
ride and if you come over here and you take
these logging roads that will give you a taste of what the wilderness is really
like you know when you're driving on on the highway you see the tree you see
that the forest actually but you you cannot gauge it like the way you know
you cannot feel it once you in turn yourself in this type of roads then you
get a taste of it you know and also we're trying to see if we can catch an
elk they tell us that in this area they're supposed to be a lot of them and
so far no luck but we keep on trying you know like a great luck with bear black
bears on this trip black bears yeah we've seen that tree so far
and deer we've seen a whole bunch of them too now we need to see an elk you
know that'll make the trip like cherry on the cake yeah this is this is what
it's like to drive down roads like this you know it's it's really enjoyable I
like it you know I rather drive down a road like these ones a dirt road then a
paved road you know I mean this is the type of thing I read I really enjoyed
yeah it's fascinating to take the to take the logging roads though because it
really gets you out deep into the forest yeah how you
feeling like you're you're you're really exploring out here you're really
exploring this station rugged it's a real McCoy you know like I mean this is
the real wilderness of Vancouver Island when you come over here you need to get
off the main areas where people are everybody goes and try to try to find
this out-of-the-way places and you're gonna have a surprise you know you're
always gonna find something like a lake a river you know things that are really
unexpected maybe and that's what is going to give you the wow factor okay
and like I say then on top of that you may see a lot of wildlife but otherwise
if you keep on the main traveled roads you're not gonna see them because the
animals try to have a tendency to get away from you places where there are a
lot of cars and stuff like that you know this this is the places where they were
their natural habitat let's say yeah here we are now we're gonna get out of
this I'm gonna have a lunch her lunch and keep going down south we are getting
away from the total wilderness and going towards a little bit of civilization
again you know which I don't like by then it was lunchtime and personally I
was starting to feel hungry so it was time to get some food inside of us we
found the perfect lunch spot next to an old logging train even a classy we go
one more right to one from BC to morph emergency no I'm not drinking but we
drive tonight today tonight is the night every night every day has been the night
on this trip are the sandwiches they're good salami and cheese that's basically
we have every day yeah great well guys time for an update
we've been going on a bit of a wild goose chase down
dirt roads we notice there was a lake on the map it looked really close by it's
called Schoen Lake it means beautiful lake it's got a German name so we
thought detour a small detour but I mean the roads are so bumpy and not in great
condition so it's taken us a while to get there we're the only ones here by
the way like we made it to the lake it's it's beautiful it's just raining softly
they have a few campsites but like there were no people around no tents no camper
vans now we're crossing a bridge there's a river it's also quite dark I mean the
trees are so tall and we're really shielded so that's kind of why it looks
like the sun's already gone down it's really only 3:00 in the afternoon but
yeah we're hoping we'll get to see some wildlife we still haven't seen any elk
so maybe we'll get lucky more bears I mean we've seen three black bears since
we came to Vancouver Island but we wouldn't mind seeing another one and
yeah that is the current update a rainy day here on the island I feel
like this is typical Vancouver Island weather low clouds great misty now I'll
pass the camera up and Sam can share some of his Oh guys this is fascinating
for me personally because these back logging roads remind me so much of
hockey trips I used to do way back in the day when I lived on the island my
dad sometimes would have access to his company vehicle which was a big logging
truck we just throw all of our hockey bags in
the back kind of tied up with a tarp and off we go and we would take these
logging roads to remote little towns that also had arenas and community
centers and we would play hockey there for the weekend
so this reminded me yes you can get the gold river not on this particular
stretch but there is a turning point where you can take a logging road up to
the gold river and so yeah I think our next stop is going to be in sayward so
right now we're basically gonna just keep going on the logging road for a bit
turn off back onto the main part of the highway and then I think sayward might
be like 60 or 70 kilometers so like that the back roads like here you know
something potholes jumping bottles flaps forgiving our junior dad who live in the
city yeah a run for their money up here on the back roads
we got back on the highway and tried to tack on a few more kilometers before
next up in sayward which we had been told is a good place to try and see elk
well I think the elk were probably hiding from the rain but we did see a
cute deer munching on a perfectly manicured garden so that kind of made up
for it eating apples
and that was that we continued straight down to Comox
where we checked into our home for the night and proceeded to order Sam's
favorite takeout pizza well guys it is dinner time we have our I've got our new
air B&B in Comox and this man wasted no time
yeah we just we pizza a long day on the road guys - pure rain we didn't feel
like getting groceries and getting soaked
you know what Domino's is our best friend on a day like this and what did
you get I got a pizza it has three different kinds of meat and extra cheese
and feta so if you got a pepperoni we've got sausage and we've got bacon and of
course wine yeah what did we get this time this one is from Argentina is a
Cabernet Sauvignon is called Rania's Rio Hannah's like is supposed to be
how much of a local festival but it's done in the province of la rioja in
argentina to celebrate mother earth and the wine says that is devilishly rich
and smooth now it has no year of bottling sternness of a neon sign for a
Cabernet Sauvignon I find it it is a little bit too smooth it's like a merlot
yeah now this point has been cut with something I don't know what it is but
it's not a pure Cabernet Sauvignon somehow you know like I mean no way the
way mmm Cabernet Sauvignon is a little bit aggressive you know when you when
you drink it and it's a few Cabernet you can feel it that it scratches a little
bit as much as the police one is you know like I mean is totally too smooth
we'll smooth a little sweet so I don't know what they cut it with but anyways
after a long day of driving look it's 7 o'clock in the evening we left at 11 and
it's been driving all day with their rain and rain and rain and rain and we
got off road also and I'm pretty tired you know so yeah well thanks for driving
all day with anyone we didn't wanna cook tonight
yeah so we ordered the pizza a little bit of wine and for today that's it
we've got three more full days being in this area and so we got a lot of things
planned hopefully going to Campbell River parksville well maybe some island
hopping we'll see play it by ear and check the
weather we'll see you soon cheers bone Appetit good night