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 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.

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.

The rugged coastal scramble locals call the West Coast Trail you can do in a day, with ancient petroglyphs and the Pacific doing its best.

Ocean River's guided paddle from Oak Bay to a wild marine-park island where seals shadow your hull and the city completely disappears.