Name: Visiting COMOX VALLEY + WINE TASTING ?? | Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada
Uploaded: 2020-04-28T02:05:45.000Z
Duration: 17 min 14 s
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in today's video we continue our Vancouver Island road trip in

partnership with trover this time doing a little exploring along the Comox area

this was another exciting day that featured our closest bear encounter to

date a chance visit to a winery owned by a famous Hollywood film director and

some fun at a beach with a name that will make you chuckle all that and more

in today's episode well good morning good morning guys

morning guys from goose spit Park yeah if you're in Comox Vancouver

Island I know that's the best name ever oh man we were so amused by in here yeah

yeah it's another day when we woke up this morning it was so foggy yeah like

the fog started rolling in the clouds and we could not see the mountains from

our balcony it was just like a complete whiteout and then then it lifted for a

bit but it started raining again and again the carts are coming down it

started pouring rain so we thought like oh man what are we gonna do today but we

got down here and it's cleared yeah so the plan so the plan today is we're

gonna walk along here it's a beautiful beach by the ocean then I think we're

gonna do a little bit of hiking and there's also a vineyard and a winery to

visit so we're thinking of having a picnic we've already grabbed some

sandwiches and the coolest thing that we've seen so far today as we were

driving down from Mount Washington we had

an intimate encounter with the bear on the side of the road yeah he was just

grazing on berries and oh my gosh we got so close to it rolled down the window

and the bear was just in its own little world then yeah I just going about his

day he didn't mind that we were lying over him yeah and obviously obviously

for for safety's sake you when you're that close to bear you never never jump

out of the car stay in the car yeah so the telephoto lens came in very handy

for that and anyways yeah we're just at this beautiful beach here and there's a

lot of families out with their dogs there's a lot of people walking around

let's see yeah we're just gonna have a nice relaxing time here to start off our

day so how did we end up at this beach you asked well as usual we started the

morning scrolling through the trover app using the near me feature to find things

to do that's when we noticed a photo of this beach was named that just begged a

visit we can't say we saw any spitting geese on the beach but it was a nice

place for a morning stroll plus we met some friendly pups

so you got to see a bear on the ski lift but this is the first time to be really

close to it on the side of the road what did you think that was a beautiful

encounter yeah it was an encounter of the first kind that's amazing

oh wow I'm getting so close up now I have to ultrazoom Roger this is amazing

wow it's getting away from the berries now yeah look at them go

I've got to see the black bear it's the second one that we see in this trip one

yes a cub and this one was a grown up adult and it was nice because the way it

happened is that that we were coming down the hill I saw it through the side

of the window I saw this big black ball fur and I said that's a bear but we

couldn't swing around so we had to go to the next place where we could make a

u-turn and we came back an amazing he was still there huh he was eating

berries huh his own little world in the only world he ignored us royally and

then he looked at us and we got to film him really nice and it was just amazing

you know like I mean wildlife at his best that I thought that made my day I

mean the rest of the day is a bonus yeah now we're looking for the elusive elk

we're hoping that we're going to be able to see one once we do then on the trip

we've seen everything we've seen the bear within six deer and now we saw

another tool and the only one left it would be like the elk we still have a

few days left on we're confident right we're confident yeah we're gonna see it

so yeah we're gonna enjoy the the beach with the gooses name you know name yeah

we're gonna have some lunch here and then we will keep going on now we'll

bring you along okay so let's go check it out let's go yeah

now time for a little bird-watching we're seeing lots of Canadian geese and

we'll see what else it's the boost loose the goose is loose

this little pond area actually you know where the official observation deck is

but safer there you know what we're seeing the same birds just from a

different vantage point exactly exactly nice little pit stop and I think we're

gonna go get some wine with our food come be known

guys how lucky are we there's it's a seal the seal is like

swimming and splashing around and we've got to paddle boarders as well how lucky

any other fans of Arrested Development I think that's my favorite joke from the

whole show when looking for things to do in the

Comox area we were surprised to find that there were several local wineries

to visit we chose one at random and ended up at Beaufort vineyard and Estate

Winery which is owned by the Cameron family as in James Cameron the film

director with movies like Titanic avatar and Terminator 2 his name we decided to

do a wine tasting while we were here and paid $5.00 to sample five wines which is

an excellent deal if you ask me so we're taken grape but it grows really

well on Vancouver island we grow a lot of Ortega we make a lot of this

what are we doing guys today we are doing a wine tasting at

Beaufort here in the Comox Valley and we are starting off with a German grape

it's called Ortega it was named after a Spanish philosopher and yeah it has a

lovely fruity aroma I would say pine apples and pears to describe it

my dad hates wine being described I'm gonna cover my ears I I don't hear that

yeah I I don't go for the berry the strawberry the Apple they leather the

tastes for the wine what do you what did you think of the first one I thought I'd

you know it's a it's a good table wine that would be good for like whitefish or

something light like that you know and we we're gonna be having I believe five

five tasting only $5 per person great great beautiful setting and we're gonna

probably buy a bottle of wine to take back home so let's go in for round two

and the word borealis means true north so on Vancouver Island we are the most

northern commercial vineyard so the grapes we grow here are ones that do

well with a shorter growing season we get a lot of rain here so they have to

be horrible to a lot of rain and we don't get the big hot heat that

Argentina gets or Okanagan gets or California gets okay round two next wine

another white one this one is called borealis and it's actually a blend of

three different grapes and has been genetically modified to be able

to deal with the rain and the weather here on the island yes pacifically

design so very unique wine sweet I like it yeah the sweeter than the other one

and very very very soft to the palate so how we made this rosy is the main grape

is show number which is a white grape and then we've added 7% marichal foix

grapes which is a dark red grape so the white and the red next makes a lovely