The search for a couple who have been missing since Wednesday resumed Friday morning.
Cody Martin, 32, and Tamara Sandulak, 29, told family and friends that they were going to the Nanaimo Lakes area on Remembrance Day to go fishing.
They were reported missing on Thursday when they didn’t return.
Their black lab cross, called Rex, is also with them.
Martin and Sandulak are experienced in the outdoors and have been to the area a number of times to fish or pick mushrooms, RCMP said. They did not plan to spend the night.
RCMP air support was also helping in the search as the weather was clear Friday.
Search crews were also hoping to find the couple’s vehicle, a burgundy Dodge Ram 1500 pickup with BC plate number NV9240.
Carly Troubridge, search manager with Nanaimo Search and Rescue confirmed Friday afternoon the couple’s truck is still missing.
About 50 search and rescue members were deployed on Friday.
“It’s an incredibly vast area full of logging roads,” Troubridge said. “We have been searching now for about 24 hours and have yet to cover the area that we intend to.”
“Weather is our biggest concern at this point.”
Friday was cold and clear but the weather could change heading into the weekend.
The search was suspended Friday afternoon around 4 p.m. and is expected to resume Saturday morning.
Nanaimo RCMP and search crews asked people to stay away from the area, as it is an active logging site, is also hunting season and the area has had several days of snowfall.
Margaret Strandt, manager at Cobs Bread where Sandulak works, said the missing woman had worked there for about five years.
“She is an amazing baker, she has a sense of timing I don’t know where she gets it from, but she does an amazing job,” she said.
“Right now we’re missing her very much.”
Strandt added the couple loves the great outdoors and spends every free moment they can in the woods.
“It caught us all by surprise when they were no-shows for work yesterday morning.”
Martin is six-foot-four and 210 pounds with brown hair and blue eyes. He was last seen wearing a black jacket and tan-coloured pants.
Sandulak is five-foot-six and 140 pounds, with brown hair and hazel eyes. She was last seen wearing a black coat and blue jeans or leggings.
If anyone has information on their location, they are asked to call 911 or the Nanaimo RCMP non-emergency line at 250-754-2345 and quote file # 2020-41121.
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