Port Renfrew: Tide Pools & Big Trees

Tofino in winter: 20-foot swells and a fireplace. In summer: surf lessons. Ucluelet is the quieter locals' version of both.

Two islands stitched by a wooden bridge, an Airstream in the woods, and a hot tub pointed at the stars.

A 35-minute ferry to Salt Spring's 140-vendor Saturday market, lavender fields, cheese farms, and a fireplace waiting at the end.

Twenty-five oceanfront cabins one hour west of Victoria, each with a private hot tub and the Olympic Mountains across the water.

BC's warmest wine country doubles as a float-home cheese crawl and tubing river, all under an hour from Victoria.

A 120-year-old garden in an old limestone quarry, where Jennie Butchart invented romance out of an industrial problem.

A 25-minute summer ferry to a national-park sandbar where the crowds simply do not come.

A flat, mile-long breakwater into Sooke Harbour, where the eagles and seals show up and the Olympic Mountains do the rest.

Six ziplines and a treetop obstacle course in Langford: the cure for every polite, seated, sitting-across-a-table date.

Wander fifty-five acres of illuminated gardens at dusk, then find a lawn spot as a choreographed fireworks show bursts over the Sunken Garden.

Eagle Wing hunts orcas and humpbacks in the Salish Sea while a marine biologist narrates and you quietly grip the bow rail.

Canada's only Booktown, where the plan is to pick a book for each other and compare notes over a cinnamon bun.

A flat, shaded rail trail that ends at a peaceful cove and a beloved local swimming hole near Sooke.

A full Nordic circuit on a restored 1943 barge at Ship Point, three saunas, cold plunges and hot tubs with the Inner Harbour lapping beside you.