Ucluelet BC

Wya Point Resort is located a few kilometres outside Ucluelet and within minutes of the Pacific Rim National Park. The Resort has lodge accommodations, rustic eco yurts and a campground. We stayed in the campground for 4 nights and were sad to leave. This resort sits amongst 600 acres of old-growth rainforest, located on an old village site of the Ucluelet First Nation. The beaches are amazing. The west coast of Vancouver Island has been and still is my favourite place to be.

Wya Beach at sunset

My sister and her family stayed in the yurt in background. Enjoying a glass of wine around the fire.

Some interesting facts (may just be me that finds it interesting) on plate tectonics: Vancouver Island is part of a large piece of crust called Wrangellia, that also includes southeast Alaska, the Queen Charlotte Islands and part of the Coast Mountains. Approximately 380 million years ago, some of the oldest rock that makes up present day Vancouver Island was formed by undersea lava deposits and calcium shells of marine animals added layers that became limestone. About 100 million years ago, Wrangellia collided with the North American continent slowly forcing some regions to fold and buckle into mountain ridges and others to crumble and erode. 42 to 55 million years ago, the Pacific Rim and Crescent terranes collided with and joined onto Vancouver Island. The Crescent terrane is composed of marine volcanic rock and forms the land of Sooke, Metchosin and Colwood. The region that the rest of Greater Victoria is built upon is granite and gneiss (metamorphic rock) that is thought to have formed from magma deep within the layers of rock. It was exposed during the uplift and erosion associated with the collisions of the Pacific Rim and Crescent terranes.