Scrub-a-dub-dub - 6/1/2017

The weather tomorrow is supposed to turn ugly.  We’d planned to stop at Bligh Cove today, possibly for two nights to sit out the coming rain and wind.  But our early start today convinced us to push on and hole up in Hot Springs Cove for an extra day instead.  Hot Springs Cove is just what it sounds: a body scrubbery.  I can’t wait.  There’s another, unanticipated reward for doubling our mileage today: we found cell (and with it internet) reception.  So not only do we get to lounge in the hot springs, but we get to check our emails and upload a week's worth of blog posts.  I posted them in chronological order and put the date in the subject line in case anyone is keeping track.

What we’ve read about the hot springs tells us there’s a boardwalk, a little over a mile long, leading to the point were geothermally heated water cascades through several pools whose temperature is moderated by tidal water.  After the water taxis and floatplanes have gone for the day, returning to Tofino, the springs are empty to all but the occasional boater anchored in the harbor.  During the summer months I’m sure it gets crowded in here, but for now, it’s just us and a crab boat.  I’m guessing they won’t be bothering with the springs.  Now if it would just stop raining...