When you are looking for a peaceful place to stay on Vancouver Island, there are many resorts with spas or just resorts to stay at. The area is beautiful and we spent a day and a half there.

What I found interesting was the bald eagles. I was fortunate enough to capture him on the treetop outside our place at the resort Tigh Na Mara. He was watching his three offspring who were trying to catch fish as the tide went out. To me it looked more like they were playing. I did capture a few pictures of them just standing around looking like they were talking to each other.

The tide goes out about two miles so you can walk to the waters edge and find all kinds of sea life. There were signs though of red tide and not to eat any of the shell fish. I didn't know what red tide was. I recently discovered that the ocean floor becomes very warm and the cold water near the bottom becomes warm and the shell fish some how get a bacteria. Maybe it is because they feel like they are being cooked but not completely.

I finished reading Deception Point by Dan Brown and it explains about underwater volcanoes. There are lava channels under the surface and sometimes they blow their tops or ooze out steam making the cold water warm at the bottom of the ocean.

I do know that there are many volcanoes north of Vancouver Island and that planes flying over them see the steam coming out once in a while.

Anyway, at the time I didn't worry about red tide I just enjoyed the moment with my daughter and husband walking and discovering the floor of the ocean that was available when the tide went out. Besides when the tide came in the water was warm and you can walk in it. Other places on Vancouver Island I found the water freezing and didn't want to walk in it at all.