Karen and Rebekah

Karen and Rebekah Hi! We are Karen and Rebekah (& Beanie) travelling the world in our truck camper and more!

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30/08/2026

Welcome to our last day on the island. Day 10! Today we are making the long drive alllll the way from Port McNeill to Nanaimo. We take a couple of breaks along the way. We picked up a package from Canada Post. A vacuum. I don’t think how much use we are going to get from this but we shall see. We also stopped in Campbell River to go to Freya - Nordic baking & kaffe cause Nick and Lorelei suggested it. It was a good suggestion! I love a lemon pastry. Lemon is one of my favourite flavours. And the croissant was very light and buttery. After that, we drove over to Nanaimo and parked near the wrong ferry terminal. We parked on the gravel lot on Port Drive and just like people on iOverlander said… it IS a local spot for crackheads! Didn’t feel unsafe but they talked quite loudly and I should have put my earplugs in… Anyway… the next morning is when we figured out we were in the wrong spot so we jumped out of bed quickly and drove over to the Duke Point one.

29/08/2026

Welcome to day 9 of our not to Vancouver island roadtrip! Today we make it to Alert Bay by taking the ferry from Port McNeill. We wanted to visit Alert Bay because of the U’mista cultural centre. We heard good things about it so yeah!
And the people were right! It was really cool. We learned about the Kwakwaka’wakw people, their potlatch regalia, their origin stories, their objects (the baskets were really nice) and about grease! What is grease? It’s made from the oily eulachon fish that is now threatened. I’d like to try grease. It was really cool what can I say.

After that we left the island and headed to eat pizza at Devils Bath Brewing. Was good pizza. The wait was pretty long though. Note to self: if we come back, I’d like to try the food truck across from petro canada.

Okay see you tomorrow!!

28/08/2026

Welcome to day 8 of our North Vancouver Island Roadtrip! Today was our last day at Side Bay and it was a good one! The sun was shining. The sea was sparkling. And the wind was blowing which made for a really short paddle board ride but whatever its fine. We made it out of the sand with the help of everyone in the beach (no pushing, just guidance) and picked up a man in need! We had really fun conversations on the way back to port Alice and he really inspired me to start my mushroom foraging journey and Rebekah to become a helicopter pilot. Rebekah and her crazy dreams aiya.
We ended the day at the marble river campsite and it was good having a campsite one last time as our Vancouver island trip is coming to an end soon. See you tomorrow!

27/08/2026

Welcome to day 7 of our northern📍 Vancouver Island trip! Our first full day in Side Bay, right on the beach of the ocean in BC! The morning started a bit rainy and foggy so it was a cozy morning but once it started to clear, we headed out with our paddle board (twice!) and caught some fish. Of course we filleted them all, ate and prepped them and it was delicious ❤️ I’d say today was a fun and adventurous day on the beach!

26/08/2026

Welcome to day 6 of our north Vancouver island roadtrip! Today we head out from our spot on Alice Lake to some “points of interest” as they are called.

First point is the Eternal Fountain. It’s a tiny waterfall that comes out of this wall and goes into the ground and you don’t know where it comes from or where it goes. We also saw a cool plant - the ghost pipe - ooolala! It’s a pretty cool plant if you google it.

Next, we went to see Devils Bath. It’s canadas largest cenote. It was kinda meh. It just looked like a small lake. I thinkkkkk you can hike down to it but on the map it said “dangerous” so take that as you will.

After that we headed into Port Alice and then headed to Side Bay! It’s a remote beach camping spot and we have heard good things from our friends so that’s why we are going. 4x4 is highly recommended to get onto the beach but there are like two spots before the beach if you can’t make it down there. The road from port Alice is also very bumpy so a lot of people don’t take the effort to go to side bay.

Anyway…. See you tomorrow 😊

25/08/2026

Welcome to day 5 of our North Vancouver Island roadtrip! Today we headed back to Port Hardy from San Josef bay to visit the salmon hatchery! It was very fun and informative time and honestly enjoyed it much more than I expected. We then walked around the port Hardy park for a bit. Read all he interpretative signs on the wild fauna and the headed back into the truck to get to our sleeping spot. We headed towards Port Alice and on the way we stopped at the free rec site on the lake. Great spot! We did some paddle boarding and even took a dip.
See you tomorrow on the next one 😊

24/08/2026

Welcome to day 4 of our North Vancouver Island roadtrip! Today we make it to Cape Scott Provincial Park. Before coming here I had this place pinned on the map and it looks so far north and you’re like wow I’m never going to make it there… but here we are!

It’s super pretty! I like it a lot. And a lot of people are camping here and I think it’s a great place to do it. The walk from the parking lot is less than an hour and flat and people even bring their wagons full of stuff. So it’s not like it’s a difficult backpacking hiking trip. If I were to come back, I would want to camp on the beach.

It was also super cool seeing such a large jellyfish. I think that’s a first for the both of us.

So that’s basically it! See you tomorrow 😊

23/08/2026

Welcome to day 3 of North Vancouver island roadtrip! Today we had a slow chill morning putting the frozen dumplings away and making clay figurines! This air dry clay that I bought is kinda hard to work with. It sags a lot as it dries. I did buy the cheapest one so maybe that’s why?

Anyway, we made the long drive to Port Hardy to see the Dakota 576 plane crash and on the way there were a lot of cool plants. I’m really loving the Seek by iNaturalist Seek app and if you’ve ever been like “I wonder what that plant is…” while doing something then maybe you should get it too. Not sponsored I just really like the app.

We then finished the day by eating Karai sushi for dinner which was really really good! We totally over ordered cause we were starving but I’m not complaining!

See you tomorrow on the next one 😊

22/08/2026

Welcome to day 2 of our North Vancouver Island roadtrip. We started the day off at the Dalrymple trailhead cause it was our sleeping spot and then we headed on over to Little Huson Caves! It’s a pretty nice spot to explore cause of the cool limestone formations carved out by water. After that, we picked some thimbleberries along the road and then went to our sleeping spot to cook dinner and end the day! See you on the next one 😊

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