[Metro-One]

Yeah, love that area, but the Thompson Valley is much drier than the Okanagan.

Anyways, I was in Tofino over the weekend (Tofino is a small beach / fishing town on the west coast of Vancouver Island, it is about a 5 hour trip from Vancouver west) and I took many pics of the palm trees they have there. In general they do not grow the windmill palm (save a few that I saw) but instead grow another variety that I have only seen a couple times in Vancouver. The couple in Vancouver are far smaller than the ones in Tofino, i believe this is because Tofino's winter is a couple degrees milder than Vancouver's (being moderated by the open Pacific Ocean and having the mountains on Vancouver Island shield the area from the worst of the winter cold spells). I am going to post a more full separate thread on Tofino soon, but here is a teaser for the palms they have there:















All pics are my own:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/30634635@N03/

Cheers