TOFINO: day 29

Woke up to the thickest layer of fog, it’s easy to forget how quickly island weather changes when you’ve been teased with 3 days of glorious sunshine. Feeling very, very hormonal today. Pathetic fallacy? Not sure. But it does feel as if the fog has trickled inside of me. Grrr. Went for a beach walk before breakfast, which was v atmospheric and moody. Found loads of sea dollars washed up on the shore, nature is cool.

Waited for the mist to clear, then went for a surf. Every time I go surfing, I forget how bad I am at it. All I want in life is to be a surfer babe, why are you not just born with this talent. It was pretty choppy, Isaac disappeared into the proper surf, I stayed in the shallows (mostly because I couldn’t seem to paddle out any further??) It’s definitely not as fun sucking at something when you’re by yourself. I can just about stand up, but that’s it. One day I will be somewhere for a long time and learn to surf properly. You get no where with a few days here and there.

Isaac made a thai noodle broth for lunch, was yummmm. Had a very lengthy shower, then accidentally had a nap. It’s exhausting constantly being swallowed by waves. 

Woke up from my nap feeling even more crazy hormonal than I did before, like crazy. Feel bad for Isaac but he is v patient. Weirdly feeling homesick? Think because the last time I was in Tofino was with my family this time last year. Miss them lots. 

Went for an evening bike ride down the beach, fog still too thick to see more than 50m in front of you. We climbed up some rocks at the end. Would’ve been a nice view, but, y’know, fog. The tide was out, I inspected the barnacles and the other bizarre crustaceans wrapped around the base of the cliffs, collected some sea glass and shell fragments, then cycled back to camp.

old pic from the year before of what the view actually looks like

Isaac made fake chicken tacos for dinner, then a cheese board to finish (?!) I have been absolutely foul all day and he is still this good to me. V lucky