News Article
SPIN THE GLOBE
by Thayer Walker, Outside Magazine
March 2007
The New, New Places
Go Here Now – before the secret gets out
BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA
Tofino
Take a province with no more than 16,700 miles of coastline and a few hundred thousand snowboarders itching to embrace the coming summer and you get the British Columbia surf scene. Tofino, a sleepy town of 1,711 on Vancouver Island’s Pacific side, explodes into a mini-metropolis every season as a horde of surfers descends in pursuit of consistent beginner and intermediate breaks. For the student who wants to mix surfing with celebrity, there’s Bruhwiler Surf School, owned by one of Canada’s renowned big-wave riders, Raf Bruhwiler (two-and-a-half-hour group lessons, $75; 250-726-5481,bruhwilersurf.com). At the Wickaninnish Inn, every room has an ocean view (doubles, $208-$398; 800-333-4604, wickinn.com).