I’m just back from a very educational trip to the Bamfield Marine Sciences Centre, located south of Tofino on the west coast of Vancouver Island. Early last Sunday morning I flew from Calgary to Victoria with 100 grade 9 students from the Calgary Science School, four teachers, one principal and 5 other parent volunteers. I’ll share highlights from the many labs, excursions and other activities in a future post (or two..or three), but wanted to start my Bamfield series of blog posts with photographs taken before breakfast and after supper (mostly) from the deck of the main lab building…