If Lake Cowichan is known for one thing, this is it. You climb into an inflated tube, lean back, and let the Cowichan River carry you right through town. It sounds far too simple to be worth doing, until you've done it. Then you'll be the one telling your friends they have to go. For most of the run, the river moves at roughly walking pace. The water is cool and clear, the trees lean in overhead, and the gravel bars invite you to stretch your legs. Every so often a stretch pi

Day Trippers guide to visiting Lake Cowichan

Here's something that still makes me smile. Lake Cowichan is a town of about three thousand people, and within a few easy blocks of each other you'll find five places to get a coffee and something baked. I'd expect that in a city. In a lakeside town where half the doors are shut on a January Tuesday, it feels like a small miracle. The best part? No two of them are alike. Grab a friend (or go solo, I won't judge) and let me walk you through them. Ed's Coffeehouse 67 South Shor

Something I love. This logging town of three thousand+ has hot dogs, a sushi restaurant, a Mexican street food place, coffee, and a bubble tea counter inside a plant shop. All within a few blocks of one another. It's worth saying plainly, because the assumption about small towns is burgers or nothing, and that assumption is wrong here. Come hungry, and bring a friend who likes to share. Lakeside Sushi Unit 2, 78 Cowichan Lake Road The rolls are named after places around the l

The best guide for your Get Away weekend to Lake Cowichan