Yacht Trip Day 1: Sandspit (not actually on a yacht yet)

Had a nice sleep in before a delicious hash brown and cheese sandwich. I then drove over to Sohrabh's to park my car before we hit up the skytrain for a ride to the airport. We got to the airport in time for a sneaky beer just before midday. The suns always over the yardarm somewhere! Unfortunately I had forgotten to take my pocket knife off my keyring so the trusty Swiss Army knife that I had for about 10 years (that didn't cost me anything because a backpacker had left in the hostel) was confiscated. Nevermind, I kinda always wanted one with scissors on​​ it. Plane ride was uneventful and didn't even crash once.

Once in Sandspit we found our accommodation and checked in. Hilariously low key with no keys or anything. The manager told us about a trail further up the road so after a quick trip to the liquor store for the essentials we went for a bit ​​of a run (who walks trails these days anyway)​.​ 

The trail was absolutely awesome, great to be running through the forest again after so much running on pavement in Vancouver. The track itself was a loop and quite technical with lots of roots and mud. It also kept us on our toes because a lot of the trail was obscured by lots of tree fall. A couple of times we had to stop and do a bit of route finding but it was pretty well marked. The trail was a loop with a bit of filler at the farthest point to a waterfall:

We were amused by the sign that said "Warning: difficult trail, use at your own risk" I wondered whose risk we were at when we were running on the main trail. The trail to the waterfall was pretty steep, rough and slippery but we made it OK, nice to give my trail shoes a workout again. All up it as about 10k so we felt like we had earned our dinner. We went along to a place called the Orange roof where I drank ceasars and ate a halibut burger followed closely by a fudge brownie sundae for pudding. Yum and yum. I'm writing this and its only about 9:30pm and we have no idea what we'll do for the rest of the night! Nice to be relaxing though.