We loved our four nights stay at Black Otter Cove. This quite, stylish and comfortable ground floor apartment, suited four adults cooking our meals and lounging about extremely well.
The location is in a quite wooded cove on Sooke Basin, bring binoculars to spy passing eagles and diving ducks.
The house is out of the way of passing traffic with a handful of destinations here and there on the East Sooke peninsula. Our favorite was the East Sooke Regional Park, with lovely and dynamic trails for seemingly endless day hikes through lush forests and along cliffs following the Straight of Juan de Fuca. For a car free day we hiked up the hill from the house to the park entrance off Copper Mine Rd.
Janet was very welcoming, and responsive to messaging, though we only saw her once at check in, for us this was a perfect amount of contact.
The space, location and surroundings made it especially hard to leave, be warned.