Some days on the water stay with you forever. On June 15, 2026, while guiding a wildlife tour off northern Vancouver Island in the territory of the ’Nakwaxda’xw First Nation, our guests and crew encountered a North Pacific right whale — one of the rarest whales on the planet and […]

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The last few days have been a bit windy but today was much calmer and the wildlife viewing was fantastic, We had at least nine different humpback whales spotted, dozens of sea otters, hundreds of sea lions, and loads of fishing bald eagles. Our most reliably sighted humpback whale this

A great evening to be on the water with a full trip of eight guests. Even though our boat comfortably seats twelve passengers we find eight is a much better number for wildlife viewing as no one has to sit in the middle seat. This evening we stated off by

Today we ran a custom charter tour for an end of year staff trip for the K’ak’ot’lats’i School. We started the trip by heading out west where we found quite a few sea otter mothers and pups. We were scanning for blow as we headed to an isolated sea lion

A beautiful evening to be on the water with six guests, including two who have both joined over five trips with us since we started last year. We were fortunate to have a small group of Dall’s porpoises speed over to our boat and surf our bow wave to the

It was a little windier today so we didn’t go as far west as we often do, but it didn’t matter as we saw a raft of sea otters just as we left Hardy Bay. As we cruised through some of the more protected passages among the local islands we

A beautiful day on the water. We  saw a few sea otters as we departed Hardy Bay. We made our way through some nearby islands and then headed west in Goletas Channel. Today we got to the very northern tip of Vancouver Island, Cape Sutil. Lots of rhinoceros auklets were

Wow! What a day with sightings of a coastal wolf, breaching humpback whales, feeding eagles, plus lots more. We started off in the drizzle and were soon rewarded with a rare sight. At first we thought it was drift wood but as we got closer we saw a wolf standing

Today was a beautiful sunny day and both Coastal Rainforest Safaris and our sister company, Sea Wolf Adventures, brought out students from the Gwasala Nakwaxdaxw School here in Port Hardy! We love bringing kids into their homelands! Before we got very far we stopped to watch sea otters and as