On my third day at the farm (10/5), the sun was shining, so Lori told me to borrow the car and go do some sight seeing right after breakfast. So I packed my camera and an extra jacket, and left for Cathedral Grove.
Cathedral Grove is actually one of the most visited sights on the island. Since the highway from Nanaimo to Tofino and Ucluelet goes right through the tiny park, it’s easy to just turn in on the parking lot and take a quick turn among the old, big Douglas firs. Luckily for me, the park is only a fifteen minute drive from Lori’s farm.
As I arrived at the park early, I was the only one there. I could walk around for an hour all by my self, before the other tourists started dropping in.
It was a really small park. The trail was barely long enough to even call what you did there for a walk. But the trees were beautiful, and the river next to the park was glittering in the morning light.
The biggest tree in the park is a Douglas fir. It’s more than eight hundred years old, nine meters wide and 76 meters high. Since I was the only person in the park, I was a bit perplexed to start with. How would I get a person into the picture to make the impressive size of the tree obvious? With the timer in the camera, of course! Beautiful things that my camera can do. So here I am, admiring the magnificent tree.
Next to the park lies Cameron Lake. Beautifully blue and still in the morning.
Katja Malmborg 