{"title":"Tofino, British Columbia","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTOFINO, BRITISH COLUMBIA\u003c\/strong\u003e | \u003cem\u003e\"Storm Capital of the Pacific Northwest\"\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTofino is the most dramatically positioned small town on the Pacific coast of North America — a community of 2,000 people at the end of Highway 4 on the outer coast of Vancouver Island, where the full fetch of the open North Pacific arrives across 8,000 kilometres from Japan and the Clayoquot Sound temperate rainforest grows in constant saturation from the 3,200 millimetres of annual rainfall the coastal ranges intercept. Long Beach stretches sixteen kilometres of hard-packed grey Pacific sand through the Pacific Rim National Park Reserve, and the consistent 1.5-to-3-metre surf has made it the surf capital of Canada. The Wickaninnish Inn established storm-watching as luxury travel in 1996, and the specific experience of watching a full North Pacific storm from inside a cedar room above the surge channel is available nowhere else on the continent.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe colors are the temperate rainforest coast palette: the deep blue-grey of the North Pacific under a storm sky, the dark green-black of the old-growth Sitka spruce above Cox Bay, the pale silver of Long Beach at low tide when wet sand mirrors the overcast sky, and the deep amber of the cedar interiors that every Tofino building uses as the primary material of living at this latitude.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"tofino-british-columbia-original-series-gallery-canvas","title":"Tofino, British Columbia | Original Series Gallery Canvas | The Painted Passport®","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTOFINO, BRITISH COLUMBIA\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTofino is the most remote and most beautiful coastal town on the Pacific coast of Canada — a small fishing and surf community at the western tip of Vancouver Island, where Clayoquot Sound meets the open Pacific Ocean and where the quality of light at the edge of the continent produces the specific warm amber of a west coast sunset over still harbour water that painters and photographers have been coming here to capture for decades. The harbour at golden hour — when the warm amber and rose of the sky reflects in the still grey water of the inlet, the deep red of the waterfront buildings glows against the dark silhouette of the coastal forest, and a single kayak moves through the calm water below the mountains — is the defining image of Tofino at its most atmospheric and most itself. The surrounding Clayoquot Sound, a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve, contains the largest remaining tract of temperate rainforest on Vancouver Island, and the combination of old-growth cedar and Sitka spruce rising above the shoreline, the grey whale migration routes passing directly through the sound, and the world-class surf breaks of Cox Bay and Chesterman Beach make Tofino one of the most ecologically extraordinary places in North America. The town itself — a small community of artists, surfers, fishermen, and wilderness guides at the end of Highway 4 — has developed a distinctive culture of environmental consciousness and outdoor living that is expressed in everything from the architecture of the cedar-clad lodges to the food sourced from the intertidal zone and the old-growth forest.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis high-quality canvas print brings the extraordinary warmth and stillness of Tofino at golden hour into your living space — the warm amber and rose of the Pacific sunset sky, the deep red of the harbour buildings glowing in the last light, the ranks of blue and yellow kayaks along the dock, and the dark coastal mountains fading into the evening haze across the still inlet. 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