Vancouver-ation

Our honeymoon vacation to Vancouver Island in British Columbia was easily the best vacation I've had in life to date.  Sure, we were running high on the good mood of just married, but it was also extremely beautiful scenery and extremely quiet there.  The first day, we took a ferry to Saturna Island which has a population of about 300 and there were just 12 people on our ferry.  A fellow passenger suggested we follow a "goat trail" sort of hike and we found a lonely tree swing there, a vineyard that was closed for the season, and dreamy redwood trees and ocean vistas.  After that, we hired a local floatplane pilot to give us a tour from the air, and within a minute of take-off we spotted orcas in the water.

The rest of the trip we spent at a really quiet B&B in the rainforest of Tofino, a surfer town just on the outskirts of the West Coast's Pacific Rim National Park.  And on our last day before flying home, we rented bikes in Vancouver city and spent Monday riding along the sea wall and redwood forest of Stanley Park.  It was pretty unbelievable.

I've been playing with the Incredibooth app on my phone a lot this year, which turns any location into an instant photobooth - it does a pretty amazing job with blurs and backgrounds.  I also have been finally getting familiar with instagram and you can find a sample of my photos from this trip on there.