began making our way south so let me warn you guys you're in for a lot of rain in this

episode the plan was to drive from Port Alice to Comox while taking a few

detours to go hiking but that didn't happen the weather had other plans and

since there was a bit of a deluge going on and we kind of wanted to stay dry we

had to adapt so if you're down for some adventuring down logging roads or random

car chats and a cute deer or two then come and join us for this rainy day of

driving good morning good morning guys greetings from Woss Woss W O S S yeah so it's a

small little town we've been driving for a while we say goodbye to port alice after

spending 4 nights there yeah really great adventure in the northern part of

Vancouver Island didn't we yeah yeah so now we are heading back down to the

Comox Valley Courtney area yes and yeah we're gonna have four more nights there

to do some more adventures maybe a bit of island hopping yep and well it's a

bit of a long drive I think it's going to take us around three and a half hours

so making stops along the way this is one of the first ones yeah earlier we

went to a Nimpkish Lake is that right Nimbus leahy river another logging road

we kind of went on trail for a little bit who's raining and then we've just

been driving for a while we filled up at a cool petrol Canada station that had

Orca paintings had some really cool murals and now we're in woss and we

kind of drove through the little town and we came out to this this is

basically like a logging road bridge and you get a fantastic view of the river

from here so we're gonna have a quick little picnic yes and then we continue south

so then we continue south so yeah we'll be making more stops along the ways yeah

bring you along for that so we've headed off to the logging roads here yeah

actually we're driving down our logging road these are roads that are open by

the logging companies you can still use them but

you have to be careful because it's all dirt and gravel and a little bit of

muddy and potholes and so if you're gonna come use these roads sometimes

it's better to come with a vehicle yeah 4x4 or all-wheel drive something with a

little bit more spunk we are driving a Toyota rav4 and we're driving on rock

and dirt mode so it's like a 4x4 right you've got more response so yeah we are

in our right in the middle of the forest here it's just beautiful beautiful total

wilderness and yeah lots of potholes or potholes you know Madison it's a nice

ride and if you come over here and you take

these logging roads that will give you a taste of what the wilderness is really

like you know when you're driving on on the highway you see the tree you see

that the forest actually but you you cannot gauge it like the way you know

you cannot feel it once you in turn yourself in this type of roads then you

get a taste of it you know and also we're trying to see if we can catch an

elk they tell us that in this area they're supposed to be a lot of them and

so far no luck but we keep on trying you know like a great luck with bear black

bears on this trip black bears yeah we've seen that tree so far

and deer we've seen a whole bunch of them too now we need to see an elk you

know that'll make the trip like cherry on the cake yeah this is this is what

it's like to drive down roads like this you know it's it's really enjoyable I

like it you know I rather drive down a road like these ones a dirt road then a

paved road you know I mean this is the type of thing I read I really enjoyed

yeah it's fascinating to take the to take the logging roads though because it

really gets you out deep into the forest yeah how you

feeling like you're you're you're really exploring out here you're really

exploring this station rugged it's a real McCoy you know like I mean this is

the real wilderness of Vancouver Island when you come over here you need to get

off the main areas where people are everybody goes and try to try to find

this out-of-the-way places and you're gonna have a surprise you know you're

always gonna find something like a lake a river you know things that are really

unexpected maybe and that's what is going to give you the wow factor okay

and like I say then on top of that you may see a lot of wildlife but otherwise

if you keep on the main traveled roads you're not gonna see them because the

animals try to have a tendency to get away from you places where there are a

lot of cars and stuff like that you know this this is the places where they were

their natural habitat let's say yeah here we are now we're gonna get out of

this I'm gonna have a lunch her lunch and keep going down south we are getting

away from the total wilderness and going towards a little bit of civilization

again you know which I don't like by then it was lunchtime and personally I

was starting to feel hungry so it was time to get some food inside of us we

found the perfect lunch spot next to an old logging train even a classy we go

one more right to one from BC to morph emergency no I'm not drinking but we

drive tonight today tonight is the night every night every day has been the night

on this trip are the sandwiches they're good salami and cheese that's basically

we have every day yeah great well guys time for an update

we've been going on a bit of a wild goose chase down

dirt roads we notice there was a lake on the map it looked really close by it's

called Schoen Lake it means beautiful lake it's got a German name so we

thought detour a small detour but I mean the roads are so bumpy and not in great

condition so it's taken us a while to get there we're the only ones here by

the way like we made it to the lake it's it's beautiful it's just raining softly

they have a few campsites but like there were no people around no tents no camper

vans now we're crossing a bridge there's a river it's also quite dark I mean the

trees are so tall and we're really shielded so that's kind of why it looks

like the sun's already gone down it's really only 3:00 in the afternoon but

yeah we're hoping we'll get to see some wildlife we still haven't seen any elk

so maybe we'll get lucky more bears I mean we've seen three black bears since

we came to Vancouver Island but we wouldn't mind seeing another one and

yeah that is the current update a rainy day here on the island I feel

like this is typical Vancouver Island weather low clouds great misty now I'll

pass the camera up and Sam can share some of his Oh guys this is fascinating

for me personally because these back logging roads remind me so much of

hockey trips I used to do way back in the day when I lived on the island my

dad sometimes would have access to his company vehicle which was a big logging

truck we just throw all of our hockey bags in

the back kind of tied up with a tarp and off we go and we would take these

logging roads to remote little towns that also had arenas and community

centers and we would play hockey there for the weekend

so this reminded me yes you can get the gold river not on this particular

stretch but there is a turning point where you can take a logging road up to

the gold river and so yeah I think our next stop is going to be in sayward so

right now we're basically gonna just keep going on the logging road for a bit

turn off back onto the main part of the highway and then I think sayward might

be like 60 or 70 kilometers so like that the back roads like here you know

something potholes jumping bottles flaps forgiving our junior dad who live in the

city yeah a run for their money up here on the back roads

we got back on the highway and tried to tack on a few more kilometers before

next up in sayward which we had been told is a good place to try and see elk

well I think the elk were probably hiding from the rain but we did see a

cute deer munching on a perfectly manicured garden so that kind of made up

for it eating apples

and that was that we continued straight down to Comox

where we checked into our home for the night and proceeded to order Sam's

favorite takeout pizza well guys it is dinner time we have our I've got our new

air B&B in Comox and this man wasted no time

yeah we just we pizza a long day on the road guys - pure rain we didn't feel

like getting groceries and getting soaked

you know what Domino's is our best friend on a day like this and what did

you get I got a pizza it has three different kinds of meat and extra cheese

and feta so if you got a pepperoni we've got sausage and we've got bacon and of

course wine yeah what did we get this time this one is from Argentina is a

Cabernet Sauvignon is called Rania's Rio Hannah's like is supposed to be

how much of a local festival but it's done in the province of la rioja in

argentina to celebrate mother earth and the wine says that is devilishly rich

and smooth now it has no year of bottling sternness of a neon sign for a

Cabernet Sauvignon I find it it is a little bit too smooth it's like a merlot

yeah now this point has been cut with something I don't know what it is but

it's not a pure Cabernet Sauvignon somehow you know like I mean no way the

way mmm Cabernet Sauvignon is a little bit aggressive you know when you when

you drink it and it's a few Cabernet you can feel it that it scratches a little

bit as much as the police one is you know like I mean is totally too smooth

we'll smooth a little sweet so I don't know what they cut it with but anyways

after a long day of driving look it's 7 o'clock in the evening we left at 11 and

it's been driving all day with their rain and rain and rain and rain and we

got off road also and I'm pretty tired you know so yeah well thanks for driving

all day with anyone we didn't wanna cook tonight

yeah so we ordered the pizza a little bit of wine and for today that's it

we've got three more full days being in this area and so we got a lot of things

planned hopefully going to Campbell River parksville well maybe some island

hopping we'll see play it by ear and check the

weather we'll see you soon cheers bone Appetit good night