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Excellent, the islands, the cliffs, the native ruins and the ORCA - the best viewing possible. The menu was truly a wilderness cuisines, especially the salmon and the crab." Jim McGlynn, Fort Churchill, Manitoba
Sea Kayaking Vancouver Island has never been better. Access to major transportation hubs like Campbell River, Nanaimo and Comox are improving with every season since 1999. Access to destinations like Port McNeill and Port Hardy can be found by bus, auto or plane flights. Summer tranportation is offered to these destinations multiple times a day and offer conveyance to the traveller.
For the past twenty-three years we have provided reliable and seaworthy kayak trips to one of our favourite destinations, the Telegraph Cove Area of Johnstone Strait. Our trips have their roots set back in 1986 when we were one of a small number of guiding companies that operated in Johnstone Strait. Since then large changes have taken place and many have followed our lead. We maintain that we are operating the trips that developed around three essentials for any sea kayak trip. If you read through our website these three essentials will separate us out from the rest of the pack. It is impossible to operate in a region without becoming a steward of the environment and specifically the preservation of the wildlife. Hopefully, this is one of the reasons you might like to make Discovery Expeditions the company you would like to travel with in Orca waters.
We operate four different trips to experience the wonders of the Johnstone Strait/Robson Bight corridor. Each trip approaching your comfort level differently but maintains our documented ability to provide a safe thrilling experience around the waters and wildlife of this area. Whether you are out for a kayak vacation, kayak tour or the great escape we have a trip that will invigorate the youthful in you.
The thrill of kayaking the waters of Johnstone Strait and viewing Killer Whales in their natural setting cannot be described! It truly is a thrill that needs to be experienced to fully appreciate.
We have a variety of trips to satisfy the adventurer in you and make you a little wiser about protecting the sensitive environment we have left on the BC Coast. Johnstone Strait trips give you the option of approaching wilderness from a newly designed Park Conservatory.
Smith Sound Expeditions give you a experience of flighting into a remote area and only seeing wildlife and wilderness for six days. The original Great Bear Rainforest Trips offer a rare experience to co-habitat with coastal wolves and the spirit bears of the Central Coast.
Tour Overviews....
Summer Trips 2008
....Johnstone Strait - Original trips since 1986 from Broughton Archipleago to the core area for whale activity in Johnstone Strait. Choice from three different trips and one expedition in this area of the Inside Passage.
... Smith Sound - These trips are 6 day nomadic expeditions into the southern portion of the Inside Passage
... Great Bear Rain Forest - a 6 day sea kayaking expeditions into the land of the Spirit Bear of Princess Royal Island
... Barkley Sound - a 4 day trip into the broken island group of Pacific Rim National Park on the westcoast of Vancouver Island.
Winter Escapes 2008/9
... Cuba -Island Paradise - a 10 day trip of sea kayaking and human culture of this island paradise.
... Belize - Paddle in Paradise - a 8 day sea kayaking trip into the beaches and culture of the many cayes of Belize, CA