Ucluelet, Vancouver Island

Our summer holiday in 2008 was a trip to Vancouver Island, staying in Victoria and Ucluelet. It was a fantastic place to visit, marred only by the people on the campsite and poor management of the site itself. Why fly and drive all the way to Ucluelet to sit outside your tent, making a racket, never leaving the site except to shop, and strewing your food and rubbish around, attracting bears? I really can't get to grips with this concept; even from the tent we watched otters, eagles and bears foraging the far shore, yet the people camped around us never even turned their heads towards the sea. We left the site early as we got fed up with the situation - two young, hungry bears had come into the area, attracted by food that people were leaving out overnight. Eventually, when it was looking inevitable that the bears would be shot, we headed south a day early. I wouldn't recommend the Ucluelet campsite to anybody until they sort out their wildlife management policy and start cracking down on some of the idiots that stay there. Unfortunately it's not in a national park, so the only recourse for complaint was the RCMP.