Go Around!

Nootka means "go around" in the Nuu-chah-nulth language. This is basically what we did. You can sail from the ancient Nuu-chah-nulth sancuary of Nuchatliz (one of our favorite places on the coast, where we spent three nights paddleboarding, exploring and eating great spring salmon gifted to us by some locals) around Nootka Island via Tahsis (home to the great fishing camp of Westview Marina where we met new friends tasted our first draft beers in weeks) to Nootka sound (home of Santa Gertrudis cove, a great nook with a hike through a really cool old growth forest to a lake). We could have spent far more time exploring this area.