Calendar of Events

Wild Pacific Trail Parking Lot down Coast Guard Rd.

Meet 'Oyster Jim' Martin who will take you on a guided walk on & off the Wild Pacific Trail. Hikers from last year’s B-Bop Walks came away with wonderful footage spotting migrating whales from the trail. This is a once-a-year opportunity to experience the trail with the visionary behind its existence! This will be an invigorating forest walk - bring your walking shoes and athletic spirit, and breathe in the fresh air!

Join guest guide & local birder Artie Ahier

It’s the perfect time of year for an exciting adventure where our guides take you touring into stretching inlet waters and along the outer coast of Clayoquot Sound seeking coastal and inlet birds and migrating grey whales all in one experience! An inspiring daytrip for most ages with informative and engaging guides! Thanks to Remote Passages Marine Excursions for continued Festival support!

Remote Passages Marine Excursions, 51 Wharf Street, Tofino.
Call 250-725-3330 to Book.

Bring the little one's down to Jamie's Whaling Station in Ucluelet and hop aboard the Leviathan II! Although we won't be leaving the shore what would be better then being read a story by the author herself while sitting on a big boat and being served hot chocolate! For adults and children.

Learn about the exciting world of sharks and skates, their relationship to their environment, and the delicate balance of their lives. 

Renowned First Nation artist Roy Henry Vickers intimately shares personal stories of coastal life and inspirations, in his own longhouse gallery. He will be releasing Limited Edition prints and Roy will be available for signing following the storytelling. Everyone welcome!

Thanks to Eagle Aerie Gallery for years of Whale Festival support.

Join Dan Harrison with the Raincoast Education Society for a Rainforest Walk on the Schooner Trail in the Pacific Rim National Park. Our backyard is a lush coastal temperate rainforest, complete with rain, large coniferous trees with moss-laden branches, nurse logs and much, much more! Discover some of the ‘ingredients’ that make this ecosystem so unique. Please bring appropriate outdoor gear; sturdy shoes recommended gumboots not necessary. We will be meeting at the mouth of the Schooner Trail for this walk. 

Thank you Raincoast Education Society!

What is seining, you ask?

 Join Ucluelet Aquarium curator Dave Hurwitz 'in his shoes' for an actual Aquarium-bound specimen collection from Terrace Beach. Oh! The life in our own backyard! A net, chest waders, some biologist friends, and you. Dave will be joined by Ucluelet Aquarium staff for some seining fun. All ages welcome and boots recommended.

Get up close and personal with the Ucluelet Aquarium crew as they demonstrate beach seining and dip netting collection techniques at Terrace Beach. 

Brought to you by the Ucluelet Aquarium Society. Refreshments provided by Terrace Beach Resort, Ucluelet B.C.  

Join this local author for an exciting look into the past of Cougar Annie!

Join this local author for an exciting look into the past of Cougar Annie! A remote garden blooms at the head of Hesquiat Harbour on the West Coast of Vancouver Island. Surrounded by rainforest and mountains, this garden has endured for over ninety years. It is powerful with story!

Part 1 Sew Tuff Shop, Tofino
Students will learn to applique using simple Orca-shaped appliques that are satin stitched onto blocks creating a lovely, complex patterns when the finished blocks are sewn together.

Please contact Erin atinfo@sewtuffquiltingco.com
PH 250.725.2991

(Supplies not included)
Part 2: March 26th, 2012. 

Sweet Indulgence All you can eat dessert affair! 
Ucluelet Community Centre

 An evening of decadence that featuring favorites from family recipe archives from up and down the coast. All-you-can-eat desserts & People's Choice Awards, and so much more. This event features live musical guests. Sweet Indulgence gives locals the chance to shine and show off their baking skill and gives the rest of us the chance to come and enjoy those incredibly tasty treats!

Sweet Indulgence originally sold tickets at the door but due to its popularity and the huge lineups, advanced tickets have been sold in the last few years, selling out each time! Even after adding multiple seating times!

SAVE Advanced pre-sale tickets for sale here. Family Rates Apply! 
Advance tickets only: $10 adults/$5 kids 12 & under

THE WHALE tells the true story of a young, wild killer whale - an orca - nicknamed Luna, who lost contact with his family on the coast of British Columbia and turned up alone in a narrow stretch of sea between mountains, a place called Nootka Sound.

 Orcas are social. They live with their families all their lives. An orca who gets separated usually just fades away and dies. Luna was alone, but he didn’t fade away. There weren’t any familiar orcas in Nootka Sound, but there were people, in boats and on the shore. So he started trying to make contact. And people welcomed him. Most of them. This contact did not turn out to be simple. It was as if we humans weren’t ready for him.

Inspired by myths, we look into the sky, not the depths, for others who might think and dream like us. We train radio telescopes on the stars, and listen for code in the static of space. But maybe we’re looking in the wrong place. So far, space just crackles, but the sea whistles back. And, in Nootka Sound, it sent us an open-hearted child.

This story is about what happened then. For many years we have been curious about what it will be like when an extraterrestrial appears among us. Will things be chaotic? Will they be exciting? Will they be dangerous? Will there be controversy? How will we recognize this stranger? What will we share? Will this be joyful? Will it be sad? Will it be the best thing that ever happened?

Maybe it will be all those things. Maybe it will be just like what happened when a little lonely whale tried to make friends with us lonely humans in a place called Nootka Sound.

THE WHALE celebrates the life of a smart, friendly, determined, transcendent being from the other world of the sea who appeared among us like a promise out of the blue: that the greatest secrets in life are still to be discovered.