VANCOUVER ISLAND: day 12

Pretty miserable day. Drove back to the beach spot to make breakfast, but it was so rainy we had to cook inside. Suddenly realised we only had 20 minutes until the the 11am ferry left. I very hastily tried to pack up/secure things whilst Isaac started driving. Not our best idea. Sadly, we lost both wine glasses to the first sharp corner, as well as covering the van with breakfast stuff. Annoyingly, there was a huge queue at the ferry terminal and we missed the 11am one anyway. A tragic and unnecessary loss of borrowed wine glasses.

Back on the mainland, we sat in the same coffee shop as before, trying to make a plan of where to go next. Decided to head towards Campbell Lake but to stop at Forbidden Plateau on the way, an alpine meadow area with apparently some of the most scenic hikes in the world!! oo la la. Set up camp in the parking lot of the abandoned ski area, not the scenic views we were promised, but it will do the job.

After we pulled up, for some reason I was overcome with tiredness resulting in the best nap of my life thus far. It’s really handy having a bed on tap for whenever you need it. Whilst we were cooking dinner, a bunch of cars started pulling up beside us and out hopped a group of overly excited adults in neon PVC. A few jokes later about my name being Molly, it was revealed they were setting up a doof!!?! (forest rave) An interesting development for this quiet night in a mountain parking lot.

Ate our dinner, cracked open the last of the mead (my first mead pre-drinking experience) then went to check out the doof. The way they’d set up meant that you could sneakily peak in from above, and thank god you could. The scene below was 6 people pinging about to some very, very heavy EDM. Not for us, so retreated back to the van for our own doof. Polished off the rest of the mead under the fattest moon I have ever seen, the faint beats of EDM pumping in the distance.