Go to the beach

Long Beach is the longest sandy shoreline on Vancouver Island. In Pacific Rim National Park Reserve amongst Tofino and Ucluelet, it's 16.6 km of unblemished sand washed by a cool beating surf. Search for joggers, kayakers, ocean lions and sun admirers, with scenery of rainforest and mountains. There's a late spring Tofino Beach Bus, and in case you're an unpracticed surfer, you can get lessons. Twenty thousand dim whales relocate up this drift each spring and summer – visits work from Tofino and Ucluelet.

For a nation with a notoriety for unforgiving winters, it's anything but difficult to overlook that there's a lot of sand to go around on Canada's shorelines. Ruler Edward Island's Cavendish Beach, Manitoba's Grand Beach and Alberta's Devonshire Beach have yearly sand-mold challenges, yet they've likewise got, individually, a live-lobster touch tank, three kilometers of hills and many campgrounds.