British Columbia's Coast offers travellers opportunities to see wildlife in its true habitat. We have spent thrilling times watching a variety of whales and marine mammals from our boat and kayaks. The amazing and speedy Dall porpoises will bow ride and swim past at amazing speeds, their surfacing causing rooster tail splashes. Quiet and shy Harbour porpoises can be seen from the boat as crescent shaped surfacings. The playful and acrobatic Pacific White-sided Dolphin are often encountered and enjoyed, often in a profound "connection" between species.

The coastline of the North Pacific can have several ecosystems within close proximity of each other. We have walked from tidal beaches, through bog and marshlands into old growth rainforest in just a few hundred feet. Given that the many of the fjord-like channels have sheer rock faces measuring a thousand feet or more both above and below the waterline, alpine growing conditions can exist only a short distance from the shoreline.