Anemone at Schooner Bay
We rushed out of Tofino after updating our email as it was clear and sunny and we didn’t want to lose out on the sunshine on the ocean. Unfortunately it got very foggy after just ten kilometres south towards Schooner Cove. We did walk the kilometer in to the cove over a boardwalk trail that goes up and down several sets of stairs. I was carrying the video camera on the tripod, and it was very hard to pass people on the narrow boards, so several times I stepped off to let them past me.
The tide was going out when we got to the water. We walked north on the beach and over the rocks, but there were no good tide pools in that direction. After we’d done that the tide was low enough that we were able to walk out to the rocky island in the cove. There we found a pool which had a number of small black and white fish, as well as some hermit crabs. The anemones would close when the fish darted around and bumped into them, but I never saw one actually catch a fish. Most of the time the fish struck the outside stalk of the anemone, rather than going over the top mouth.
We now have our plans laid out to go home. We will stay here until Friday morning then drive to Nanaimo. From there we will take the ferry to Vancouver on Saturday morning and do some shopping at MEC. Then it should be a fairly quick trip home as we hope to be in Prince Albert in about a week from today.