ABSTRACT
This chapter describes and understands lifestyle migration in the geographical context of Clayoquot Sound, a region located on the western side of Vancouver Island encompassing the aforementioned towns of Tofino and Ucluelet. It is primarily driven by the need to make sense of how a uniquely wet and relatively cold climate can draw short-term tourists, residential tourists and lifestyle migrants. But in broader terms, the author aim is to interpret the significance of climate and weather in the phenomenon of lifestyle mobilities. To this purpose the case of Clayoquot Sound is of great interest because it highlights how lifestyle migrants and short-term and residential tourists alike incorporate climatic characteristics of a region into their own treasured everyday practices, challenging their common values and meanings. To understand storm watching author colleagues and he began data collection by inventorying publically available experiences of wet weather and storms, such as narratives and reflections contained in blogs, web-based diaries and other published writings.
