We went camping this past weekend to Uceulet (West coast Vancouver Island) with 2 other couples and all their kids. It was super-fun. I was a little nervous about the group camp thing because I'd never done it before but it worked really well. The largest problem with the whole thing was that I drank too much wine on Saturday night and didn't want to hydrate properly before bed because I didn't want to have to get up to pee in the middle of the night. Especially since there had been an ursine visitor (i.e. black bear) to the camp earlier in the day.
On the Saturday our fabulous host Paul - camp at Surf Junction if you're in the Tofino/Uceulet area! - took us surfing. It was awesome! Totally! Dude! We wore full wetsuits with gloves and booties and I was completely warm. I completely sucked at surfing and drank a fair bit of sea water (as well as the stuff that went up my nose) but I haven't had that much fun in the water since, well, ever. I am totally pumped about trying it again. The advantage of the water at Long beach being so cold in the summer is that it stays the same all year so we could go back and surf some other time over the winter. Yay! Surfing without risk of shark attack. If it wasn't for the necessary ferry ride to get there, I think I'd be heading over once a month or so. Thanks to the ferry ride, maybe twice a year.
