this day started with an awesome breakfast from our host darleen containing coffee, a platter of various fruits, and delicious self-made scones, toast, butter, and jam. after checking out we drove to a small electronic shop named "the source" to get an cable to connect the headphone jacks of our mobile phones with the car's auxiliary in, so we don't rely on radio signal anymore to have a little entertainment while driving the long distances. our first stop should have been the old country market in coombs, famous for its goats on roofs, but we ended up at the wrong market in errington at first. but soon we found the actual market in coombs. after spotting the goats on the roof[002,012], we walked around the market, found loads of pottery[004-010], and shops with souvenir stuff. we also found a shop with good looking fruits and vegetables, where we bought some stuff. after a touristy overload at coombs we were heading on to the cathedral grove[027-085], a forest that seemed like an enchanted place. all the moss, the lichen, the trees with strangely formed branches and twigs, and the huge amount of shades of green was overwhelming. some trees were older than 800 years[029]. the largest tree is a douglas fir, 76 metres in height. this place was really impressive, awe-inspiring, and had a special atmosphere and mood. on our drive to ucluelet[086-099] we had several stops at places that looked interesting or worth stopping, like that place where they did zip-lining[086-093] (but unfortunately we just missed the last group zip-lining through the canyons). actually there would have been so many more, and we really did a good job at reducing the stops to an acceptable amount and still get some mileage. finally we arrived at our place to sleep for this night, a snug harbour inn[100-156] that has a cute dog named malcolm, and an exceptional view over the inn's very own beach. there we spotted a deer[142] that suddenly emerged out of nowhere, and reminded us that we are actually surrounded by wildlife - wildlife such as bears too. a little more cautious we proceeded to explore the beach and spotted eagles[124-125,128-131] - how awesome is that? i have never seen one of the big ones outside of a zoo so far. then it slowly got darker and we were hungry, so we asked sue, our very nice and lovely host, what the good spots in ucluelet are to grab a bite. among all kinds of restaurants she also recommended jigger's fish & chips. after a short drive to the town centre and a short stroll[156-163] we found the truck, that only stops at this specific place in the evening to sell the food, then disappear again, just to come back the next day again. the fish & chips were really delicious. wohooo, we have seen eagles - awesome. track for day 07.