So it was my birthday today, and I decided to head on over to Tofino, and get some surfing in. Sadly, the swell this week has been fairly weak, and today turned out to be the worst of the week, so I spent most of the day at the skate park, which is sick. Overall Tofino is Amazing, by far my favourite small town I've been to. If anyone happens to be headin over the Tofino way, there's two places I reccomend checkin out.

First is Breakers Cafe, it's a great little coffee shop slash bakery downtown. Like any good coffee shop it was packed with dreadlocked hippies, and behind the counter were good lookin friendly baristas. Best part of all they're open untill 10pm! and if you ask me, hot barista's, hippies, and open late are the three key ingredients to any good coffee shop( Other than the obvious of a good Espresso). And if Luke reads this, No they're not like the usual that i'd point out to you guys, these girls are normal. They have a great menu and use lots of local ingredients and have many dishes that are deemed as "Ocean Friendly" seafood dishes.

The second place you should check out is a restaurant called Shelters. This is a restaurant that hosts everyone but is geared towards a 19+ crowd, as it has the bar right there as you walk in. Anyways though, the staff was super friendly. The food is good, it's not amazing, but it is good, and made with local ingredients, which is always a good thing. From what I saw it is the classiest and most expensive place in town, but from my experience it was worth it. I went there for lunch right around noon and I was the only one in there, so that was the only downside, but one group did show up as I was leaving, I don't know if that's normal or how busy it would be for dinner. Even still it was a good experience and i'd reccomend it.

Now I don't know what I was thinking in the morning, BUT I didn't take my camera with me. Call me an Idiot all you want, I should have had it, it was a beautiful day and Tofino makes for an amazing scene. But I will be back there to surf and I will take my camera next time.