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(This story is sponsored by the Tigh-Na-Mara Seaside Spa Resort & Conference Centre )

On the eastern edge of Vancouver Island, where tall firs lean gently toward the sea, Tigh-Na-Mara resort rests among 22 acres of forest and shoreline. For more than four decades, this Parksville resort has welcomed guests with genuine hospitality and warmth—the kind that lingers long after you leave.

Come fall or winter, and something in the air changes. The trees hush. The tides stretch slower across the sand. Time finds a gentler rhythm here one you begin to move with, almost without noticing.

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At Tigh-Na-Mara accommodations feel like quiet retreats. Rust

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