On Saturday, March 15th, Norma and I drove out to the West Coast of the Island for a day of photography. We started the day off with a whale watching trip with Jamie's Whaling Station in Tofino. It was a beautiful sunny day but unfortunately very windy and the ocean was rough. We saw three gray whales but it was hard to track them and photograph them. The boat also took us to a sea-lion colony and then we went past Stubbs Island back into Clayoquot Sound. We saw the historic village of Opitsaht, inhabited for the past 5000 years. After our boat trip we toured the beaches and also went to Grice Bay to see the Tofino mudflats.