Still feeling tight, and at times very sleepy (maybe not fully adjusted to the timezone) - didn't feel properly awake until after 10, despite having gone to bed at a normal time.
Made my way back across the island today, in better conditions than yesterday (although still with only limited views of the higher peaks). The coasts look even wilder at high tide than they did at low; on the other hand, the rivers have dropped quite significantly. It would also be fair to say that the economic transition from logging to tourism is less well advanced in Port Alberni than it is in Tofino (which is where, I found out via a 'year in review' piece in the local paper, is where Justin Trudeau goes for his summer holidays).
Ended the day in Campbell River, the northernmost end of the populated part of east Vancouver Island (from here it's 250km of forest and not much else to the ferry terminal at Port Hardy). Hoping to get to a couple of waterfalls inland tomorrow morning before heading back to Nanaimo and Vancouver, although from experience so far not a lot of park walking tracks have been opened.
Saw lots of driftwood on the beaches on both the west and east coasts, but nothing more unusual. Perhaps
I wasn't looking hard enough.