Telegraph Cove

Our friends in Telegraph Cove run a little company renting their cottage to vacationing visitors, and were very kind to put us up there. As you can see from the picture below, "cottage" perhaps means something else on the west coast then it does elsewhere. Needless to say we had a wonderful stay and heartily recommend their business to anyone else in the area.
Telegraph Cove seems to largely be a tourist town with a small dedicated year-round populace and an inflated population during the summer. There is a large camp ground near where we were staying and most of the business in town seems to be tourist-centric, but there is still some fishing going on in the area as shown by this fellow and his halibut.
Telegraph Cove itself is going through an odd transitional phase. The two halves of the town seem to be owned by different developers. The old half of the town is all historical buildings, museums (far left) while the new half is being developed with spacious multi-million dollar homes by the sea (development on the right). The Whale Interpretive Centre can be seen in this photo as the long red building on the far side, and the boat infront of it is the one we went on our tour in. Click the panorama below to enlarge.