Incoming Tide at Hot Springs Cove
Watercolour and oil pastels
©2018 Charlene Brown
This park is located northwest of Tofino in
the Clayoquot Sound region of the West Coast of Vancouver Island. Twenty-five
years ago the area was widely known as the site of the ‘War in the Woods,’ a
series of protests related to clearcutting in Clayoquot Sound, which culminating
in the arrest of 900 people in 1993 – the largest
act of civil disobedience in Canadian History.
Hot Springs Cove is only accessible by
water or air plus a slippery two-kilometre hike through old growth rainforest.
The geothermally heated water starts out at 50 C degrees, then cools down through
a series of pools and waterfalls. Unlike the folks shown here, very
few people actually get all the way into the top pool.
