Visiting Pretty Little Telegraph Cove, Vancouver Island plus Mass Eagle Sighting

[@LoveYourRV]

See More of our Vancouver Island Adventures in the video playlist - kzbin.info/aero/PLp14lzXh07unMRhHqsqpdwm2aUQvKR-zK

[@bretlenhart8280]

I grew up around here, along with Port McNeil, Tahsis, Nimpkish, and Woss Lake. Miss this place

[@greggallen6283]

We really like your Google Earth presentation at the beginning of your videos. It really helps to give perspective on where you are. Love your videos! Be safe out there.

[@leighsheppard8614]

This is the area of the world where my wife was raised (Sointula). We have now been married 41 years and it has been over 18 years since we've been back. This made us very homesick... especially on such a beautiful day. We really do miss the ocean. Thanks for taking us on this moment of nostalgia.

[@mssixty3426]

Fabulous! Thank you for your time and effort to make these lovely videos. I enjoyed having a virtual vacation trip 😊

[@56chevy11]

Thanks for the ride along....beautiful scenery.

[@LoveYourRV]

You bet. :)

[@SergeCousineau]

Vancouver Island is so beautiful! Been there 7 days in 2016 and just love it ! ATB Serge 👍😉🏔🎥

[@tick_magnetedschaper5611]

I really enjoyed riding along. Thanks!

[@lloydhowell9686]

Thanks for sharing, the eagles we’re awesome to see.

[@royallen9698]

Wow that is awesome.

[@jwmiller1995]

Good morning! I don’t know what y’all did/do for a living but you live a beautiful life! Arizona in the winter and the Vancouver area in the summer. You guys are blessed and I appreciate you sharing it and your knowledge with us. Thanks!

[@remitremblay2091]

Good afternoon, thank you for this. From the East coast, in Montreal, this looks amazing and interesting. We can’t wait to come and visit! Thank you for sharing the beautiful places we can see, right in Canada! Safe travels! Remi from Montreal, QC.

[@LoveYourRV]

You're welcome, Cheers! from BC. Ray

[@brighton_dude]

It is great to know about this beautiful part of the world.

[@williamkeil8414]

You have a very good channel Ray, thank you

[@tmorton922]

Those eagles are acting more like seagulls than eagles. I never knew they were carrion eaters. Thanks for the road trip. Really appreciate the map tutorial to show relative locations.

[@LoveYourRV]

Funny enough, some of the largest congregations of eagles are found at the local landfills or in the streams and rivers when the salmon return to spawn and die off.

[@camrodger5381]

Thanks Ray. Another great video.

[@williamkeil8414]

Outstanding video.......... thanks

[@gailrobinson7125]

Wow, that’s a lot of bald eagles in one location! Must be something they’re using in the soil remediation that’s attracting them. I’ve seen a fair amount of eagles feeding on salmon in southeast Alaska but never that many. All that beautiful scenery makes me homesick for Alaska. Thanks for sharing.

[@DC-gy3wj]

Thank you

[@yc3613]

Loved this, thanks.

[@jameshodgins1937]

Ray, I really like your the content and quality of your videos. Your verbal descriptions and Videography skills are more that adequate. No need to point in the frame.

[@PentaxLife]

Very nice Thanks Ray

[@arkansastraveler7698]

When we did the Alaskan cruise, we came back on the inside passage. Saw one town from ship, that had a lot of totum poles

[@ptcclatlptcclatl1683]

I would really like to spend Wednesday's doing that. Thx!

[@toddramsay977]

Great video Ray, no "cheers" at the end? Not feeling well? LOL

[@LoveYourRV]

Must have missed happy hour that day. :)

[@imageitinerary]

gotta go on a whale watch tour from here!

[@LoveYourRV]

Yeah great area! My wife had her boat moored in Campbell River for a half dozen summers so got to go see the whales and dolphins quite often. :)

[@imageitinerary]

@@LoveYourRV oh ok that's awesome!

[@stuartstuart866]

That was insane ..... all those eagles

[@garyanderson9467]

How come you don't stay where you did last year? BC is one of the most beautiful places on earth.

[@LoveYourRV]

I'm actually in the exact same RV park as last year, even same site number. :)

[@garyanderson9467]

@@LoveYourRV Oh, it looked different than I remembered. Cool.

[@timf6916]

Nice video, but it looks to COLD TO SWIM. and love the Eagles

[@LoveYourRV]

Lakes need another month or so to warm up

[@royallen9698]

When your in these areas do you carry any bear spray for protection?

[@LoveYourRV]

Only if I'm headed out on an extended hike. I'm usually more fearful of cougars, not bears, so carry a knife on my belt when hiking deeper into the wilderness. But overall the chances of getting injured or killed by a bear, wolf or cougar on Vancouver Island is pretty remote, much more likely to get killed driving, drowning or falling when hiking, that sort of thing.

[@royallen9698]

@@LoveYourRV thanks for the quick response and great information Ray. Happy trails... 🤠

[@donmorgan3873]

Aamzing all the eagles! What is the typical daytime temperature up there this time of year? Looked like long sleeves from the video! Thanks for the video!

[@LoveYourRV]

It can vary quite a bit. Campbell River is usually high 60s in May sometimes up to 80 or dives down to 50 Pacific fronts move through, Telegraph Cove and north Island usually around 10 degrees cooler and cloudier more chance of rain. Next week is gonna be short pant weather. www.accuweather.com/en/ca/campbell-river/v9w/may-weather/52857

[@DarylPitts]

Ray, thanks for another enjoyable video. Are there any good boondocking opportunities in the Vancouver Island area? A more general question... does Canada have an equivalent of BLM land for boondocking?

[@LoveYourRV]

That depends a lot on the size of the rig. Back in the day when I tented then had a camper van, we camped all over the Island for cheap or free on whats called Crown Land (like the BLM or US Forest), native lands or public land that is leased to the forest companies. Most of it is accessed via logging roads and is in heavily forested areas often with steep terrain. Because of this most areas aren't suitable for larger RVs or trailers. Most of the flatter lands on Vancouver Island are privately owned or have been developed. Any that is suitable for boondocking in a large RV is, of course, heavily competed for in the busy summer season Here are some websites to locate free or cheap camping on the Island www.sitesandtrailsbc.ca/default.aspx freecampsites.net/ www.ultimatecampgrounds.com/index.php/products/full-map and a couple sites with good info britishcolumbia.com/things-to-do-and-see/parks-and-trails/recreation-sites/ offtracktravel.ca/free-camping-in-canada/ Cheers! Ray

[@WhoaNellieRVAdventures]

I've never seen so may eagles in one place before. Incredible! An idea about the audio... maybe mute the wind rather than trying to erase it? Great video otherwise!

[@LoveYourRV]

Thanks, I never touched the audio, that's how it sounds even with my wind sock on it. The breeze was pretty stiff that day. Need to upgrade to a more expensive mic so I can get a bigger wind sock. Cheers, Ray Cheers, Ray

[@WhoaNellieRVAdventures]

@@LoveYourRV Yes, we are in need of a new mic as well. Cheers.

[@asquithmainlines699]

I have never understood people that feel the need to travel to a remote, pristine location and then complain that it is rustic and only has 30 amp power. Many folks go for just that, the chance to experience what nature has to offer. If I wanted to camp in a place with perfect paved roads and all the comforts of the big city I would stay in a five star hotel.

[@LoveYourRV]

Telegraph Cove is hardly remote it's like 10 miles off a major highway and a total tourist attraction and the rates they charge obviously reflect that, but the imho they have let camping sites get run down over the years, used to be much nicer. Take away the pretty little harbor and I doubt anyone would want to camp there. You can visit many of the provincial parks or forestry/first nations campsites on the island and they are much nicer, and far more pristine for less money.

[@johnmaggs769]

I think the camping in the woods is better than a parking lot of an RV park, no trees no privacy, not my cup of tea ! also expensive. Beaver Cove was where we took the ferry from before the road to Port Hardy was cut through the bush.the ferry went from Beaver Cove to Kelsey Bay,then you drove to Port Hardy. If you did miss the ferry you had to take the gravel road to Gold River and on to Port Hardy. beautiful country even though it does rain a lot more than in the south. Thanks for the day trip Ray.

[@LoveYourRV]

Woods are nice and cozy but much cooler, less sun and the rig gets pretty gummed up with pine needles and pitch. We spent one summer at the Living Forest campground in Nanaimo and even on hot days it was chilly and everyone would have fires to keep warm and man did it get smokey in there! felt like smoking a pack of cigarettes every day. haha Cheers, Ray

[@Ivansgarage]

Ray why aren't you out there floating on a inter-tube drinking a cold beer...

[@LoveYourRV]

Average sea water temp = 53 degrees. ;)

[@Ivansgarage]

@@LoveYourRV what does that have to do with anything, drink whiskey then...

[@LoveYourRV]

haha, yeah, that'll work

[@arkansastraveler7698]

When the eagles winter here in AR, part of their diet is dead animals throw out by farmers.

[@mjm3852]

I thought eagles ate only live fish. Hmmm. Maybe they have changed their diet if fishing isn't so great?

[@LoveYourRV]

No, they are quite the scavengers as well and eat small mammals, even house cats.

[@marianfrances4959]

Sweet little cove. Not loving the rv parking lot!

[@klyonsden]

The park campground looked like a slum area. Shesh. The campground looked like a Walmart parking lot with some grass thrown in. Well, wont be going there. Thanks for the heads up.

[@LoveYourRV]

You bet, cheers

[@bonniehartup1969]

Don’t go here if you are driving an RV. No RVs are allowed to park in any of the paid parking areas