Denman & Hornby Islands: Full TRAVEL GUIDE of the Canadian CARIBBEAN! (British Columbia)

[@skippyhandleman1625]

Nah-Nigh- Moe (nigh as in sigh).

[@lancewagar5793]

Nice video. It's pronounced Nan-eye-mo.

[@johnedwardkeoniambrose1151]

Thank you.. -for pointing that out to them👍👍 nothing more aggravating than mispronunciation

[@adrienbancroft7895]

Aka Surrey by the sea". Bad joke

[@thessmedallavlogbritishcol9126]

Wow this is fantastic travel..You guys have a super detailed where we found the answer. More adventures to come and we are excited to see that. This super help

[@JERios-wv8lx]

Wow, thank you so much for the info.....Lovely beaches, and an enchanted getaway....Definately i will add it to my wishlist!

[@silvercharm]

I appreciated the effort and professionalism here. I also liked the respect for the viewer's time, by editing content and keeping things focussed on delivering content. Well done!

[@Luckwatchero_Outdoors]

Guys thanks for sharing this video, I'm from the mainland and I already heard this place, I didn't realized it's beautiful...I might check this out sometime this year...good luck to your channel...I hope you get more viewers and subscribers... More power.

[@MarvinThiessen]

Alex & MJ, your accents hint "French Canadian", are you from Montreal? Any Bigfoot sightings on either island? MJ is delightful.

[@realisticmummy5779]

I have been going there for over 20 years. I adore it.

[@mikegao9768]

a beautiful place. worth a visit.

[@YOUZANG]

such a good video for Hornsby Island. Thanks.

[@alexmjotg]

Thank you 🙏🏻

[@nvdulay]

Amazing video guys! Looking forward to my trip next month! What recording equipment are you guys using for your travels?

[@alexmjotg]

Too much stuff! Haha. Sony A7SIII, Sony A7III, 16-35mm, 24-70mm, 70-200mm, 100-400mm, DJI Mavic Pro 2, a few microphones...

[@titaruthskitchen]

Thanks, it’s so helpful and clear. Very informative.

[@rcjungle7645]

Time to island shop thank u guys

[@damandeepdhillon4592]

Great and informative video.

[@suddenlysolo2170]

I enjoyed the video. My late wife was born and raised on Hornby Island and it's one of my favourite places. Unfortunately my wife passed away a year ago and I haven't been over there since. Maybe some day, but the memories are too fresh. Have you been to gabriola Island?

[@brandonbrown3694]

So sorry to hear that:( Um is Gabriola worth visiting ?

[@Astrofling]

@@brandonbrown3694 it's a small little island, it's so cute and pretty isolated. Many deers and nice beaches too!

[@babybunnie1840]

**** @alex & MJ - On the GO, you did not mention anything about people using alternative transit and accommodations! What if people dont have a car? cost? transportation, etc?? Hours of stores open? what to do in evening? It is not very detailed, but I know you tried.

[@WindowPains]

It’s so beautiful! My family used to go every summer

[@livableincome]

It has changed. Not nice at all anymore.

[@clairvoyant_af]

Such a beautiful place full of magic ✨💜

[@livableincome]

@@clairvoyant_af You might want to google Vancouver and coyotes.

[@livableincome]

@@reubensalt3149 We have a terrible climate, bears, coyotes, cougars, mosquitoes, freak landslides, heavy rain, unfriendly citizens toward tourists and also anyone out of province - or even worse out of country. Esp. Americans. And people keep going missing too.

[@livableincome]

@@reubensalt3149 You just visit the property every year? Where do you live the rest of the time? Do you realize locals have a hard time finding property on their own island? And outsiders bring the prices up? Not okay.

[@JS-jh4cy]

Oh shit, a million people will show up now here

[@daisytwotoes]

Yep, we're overrun now.

[@Vancouver_Ohi]

I never been there yet! Really want to visit there someday 😀🤗👍

[@alexmjotg]

You should!

[@jolycious7143]

Alex and MJ! Thanks so much for your beautifully filmed and informative video. Question, where on Hornby Island did you guys go diving? I would love to go for a quick dive as I have never done it, but seems like the only place that offers diving is Hornby Island Diving which offers a package of diving, lodging, and food. I'm only looking to dive so I would love it if you could give me some recommendations!

[@Gigi-mc2zb]

Is the water Clear and is it really blue in real life? (At Tribune Bay)

[@RyanLogan01]

thank you for this! heading there in a couple of weeks I can’t wait!

[@livableincome]

Vastly over rated. Stay home.

[@RyanLogan01]

@@livableincome i respectfully disagree, it was fantastic.

[@livableincome]

@@RyanLogan01 No. The entire Vancouver island and regions are full of mosquitoes, the locals are unfriendly, the ferry line ups take for hours, we have rain 11 1/2 months of the year. With the extremely high temperatures we've just had trees are falling all over the place and it is unsafe to camp, our bears are stressed and attacking people, cougars too. And some campsites are over run with rats and mice. Strathcona park for example. Then there are the extremely high costs of hotel rooms and if you decide to stay, rents, if you can even find a place, are sky high. Therefore we have an enormous homeless population and the shelters are miserable so people prefer to sleep in the streets . Best to visit somewhere other than Vancouver Island and nearby smaller islands.

[@livableincome]

I forgot to mention we have a serious tick invasion and many people are coming down with lyme disease.

[@katerynamisko5675]

Laughing at locals trying to scare tourists away thinking they own the island

[@FortheLoveofCycling]

Great. Thanks for sharing.

[@Tanya-uo3qq]

Na-Nigh-Moh... ;-)

[@carolinecaiger6717]

Helliwell is actually a 5k loop, not 2.5k. I live here and walk it most days :)

[@anaibarangan4908]

This used to be named after my ancestor. Picture as soon as pull up the Wikipedia article. It's an environmental diversity paradise in one small island. It also was a Vietnam War draft dodger haven. That's what part of the local population. It's becoming expensive "elites", but was a bohemian artistic place.

[@glenng.8254]

I really wish we could leave tourism videos like this to locals. I like frogs but the four-legged type, only please.

[@marylawrence8470]

Look up the pronunciation o& Nanaimo

[@FBall-im8ui]

ces beau la la

[@christiantessari]

Amazing travel video !!!! Congrats 👍 I am a world traveler from Switzerland 🇨🇭and i’d love to connect with other travelers ❤️ Cheers👍

[@NotDesi]

NYE-NAMO

[@Yo-wg7tg]

Tourism is a massive problem for those of us that live here. The ferrys don't have the capacity, resulting in long (3-5hour) wait times spring, summer and fall. The islands don't have the infastructure in place to handle the amount of tourists that already come. (Good luck actually finding camping if you didn't book months in advance) The locals are being forced to move away due to complete lack of housing. It's a special place but this sort of unsolicited promotion is harmfully impactful.

[@livableincome]

Exactamundo. As locals from Vic, we had to wait hours- many ferries to get to our camping spot on Hornby because people ignored the closed country and provincial border mandates. We waited behind people from New York, Ohio, Idaho, tons from Washington and Oregon and even a Hawaiian car. Then there were tons from Alta and Sask and Ontario. (One Oregonian nurse even had the gall to talk about covid safety as she stood there maskless and illegally visiting.) Half a day was gone before we arrived around dinner time only to discover a vastly over used, dirty and no privacy campsite with a crabby owner who treated people as if she were a retired school teacher. Boy did their website mislead. Dirt and cigarette butts and hardly any grass, and trees stripped of bark or even dead - it looked like an abandoned encampment. I guess that woman had reason to be crabby. Too much business was ruining her campground? Close to a lovely harbour but so what? We had to scramble to find a better spot. Thankfully people had an overflow spot for us closer to the ferry. Unfortunately it then poured like a monsoon one night and we were ankle deep in mud until we got to one of their higher spots. Then it was nice. I get being a tourist and wanting to see the world. I just hosted someone like that. But if there are border closures, respect them. We residents are fed up. The least the ferries could do is put locals on first, then other BC plates, then the others. Or during border closures simply not let outsiders get to the gulf islands period. I'd vote for that. Making sure to exclude rental cars.

[@JERios-wv8lx]

@@livableincome Hmm, i'm not a resident from there, but i agree with you100%. I just can imagine what you have to go through because of so many visitors!

[@glenng.8254]

Same goes for my small town which will remain unnamed for now. I wish tourism would just disappear.

[@tanisetremblay4386]

You never showed the island at all you missed it

[@jessicagallagher3937]

PLEASE stop pronouncing it "Na-nee-mo"... It's "Na-nai-mo"!!!

[@livableincome]

Don't come here. You will hate it.

[@W3movedOn]

Because a few mosquitoes?

[@johnedwardkeoniambrose1151]

No lol mosquito's are nothing ..there will be far too many people that'll end up..showing up and ruin our local life👍

[@livableincome]

@@johnedwardkeoniambrose1151 Don't forget all our coyote and cougar attacks too! And unfriendly locals esp with covid pandemic. 😏

[@johnedwardkeoniambrose1151]

@@livableincome exactly🤔..I like your thinkn'😉👍

[@Gogies777]

How about we invade and do wtv the we want like us mainlanders have always done.Tourism is a big incentive for you locals,we pour in our money and you get to have all the benefits.You just have to deal with excitement and friendliness when you're around us,no harm done.

[@FiendishThingy1965]

Nuh-nigh-mo…

[@lindakopec7036]

You need to learn the local names -- Na naeye mo -- not Na nee mo

[@jakobjensen6543]

I've never heard anyone mispronounce nanaimo 😂😂

[@alsoonbrine9927]

I see you used a done to photograph Helliwell and Tribune Bay. Both are BC Provincial Parks - it is illegal to use drones in the parks, as well as noisy and rude. The dive shop on Hornby is closed. It is illegal to dive with the sea lions or approach them on land. You might tell your "followers" that a trip from Buckley Bay to Hornby in the summer can be about 4 or sometimes 5 hours in each direction due to ferry congestion. The last ferry leaves Hornby at 6 pm. There is no allowed "random camping" anywhere. Sorry to be unfriendly, but videos like this are the cause of serious degradation of our tiny island and it's fragile nature. There is no source of water other than rain in the winter. Septic systems are susceptible to overuse.

[@gaetanbrassard5486]

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