Nanaimo - Beach at Piper's Lagoon Park

Sabrina was visiting, and we were blessed with gorgeous weather. To be honest, weather typical of a July on the east coast of Vancouver Island. As we were intent on showing off our local region, we visited a number of beaches. The beach at Piper's Lagoon Park was one.

I often say that this may be the most underappreciated beach in Nanaimo, because there's almost always plenty of room. Closer to the large parking lot, the beach is composed of small, rounded pebbles. Approaching the point further away from the lot, visitors can put the beach blanket down on pleasant sand.

Beach at Piper's Lagoon (2009-07-24)

Sointula - Log-strewn Bere Point Beach

After logging plenty of steps on Sointula docks in the morning and running into an exceedingly high tide during our attempt to visit Malcolm Island's lighthouse, our afternoon took us to Bere Point. Here the high tide prevented us from getting a good look at much of the beach, but thousands of logs gave Hanne lots of crannies and nooks to poke about in.

Beach at Bere Point 2016-02-09