The west coast of the island is amazing. Buy a park permit which is a bargain - about $19 dollars for two days - and allows you access to all the car parks, trails and centres. Every trail between Uclulet and Torfino is worth doing for diversity. If you have a chance to join a trail walk with ranger Carl you must do so. His knowledge, enthusiasm and charm was a highlight of our holiday and changed the way I think about Banana slugs. This is genuinely a paradise park.

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If you’re really lucky, you’ll get to see grizzly bears, black bears, seals, orcas, woodpeckers and bald eagles, and maybe even cougars, on tours of the Knight Inlet wilderness organised by the lodge.

On an early morning estuary tour in a kayak, for instance, we watched a grizzly wandering along the shoreline, flipping over large rocks looking for molluscs. Then on a motor boat tour of the fjord, a pod of Pacific dolphins surfed the wake of the boat.

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