Multi-Day Kayak Trips

North Shore Kayaks offers overnight adventures to many of B.C.'s most notoriously beautiful areas on Vancouver Island and the Sunshine Coast! Each trip is a unique and memorable experience that will allow you to explore pristine wilderness and view magnificent creatures of the sea and land. These trips are a genuine escape into the wild and North Shore Kayaks guides and cooks help to make the experience especially worry-free.

At North Shore Kayaks, we provide our clients with a decadent paddling experience. On our trips, guests will enjoy three delicious meals a day prepared by professional chefs with years of outdoor cooking experience. Our guides will provide all necessary safety, kayak and camping equipment to ensure a safe and comfortable paddling experience and we usually pack a guitar or two to make sure you stay entertained around the fire.

To insure a smooth and comfortable kayak experience, we use the best kayaks being built today: Canadian-made fiberglass and Kevlar Nimbus boats.

Multi-Day Kayak Trip Locations

1. Johnstone Strait	6. Princess Louisa Inlet	11. Day Trips and Rentals
2. Kyuquot Sound	7. Hotham Sound
3. Nootka Sound	8. Nelson Island
4. Clayoquot Sound	9. Egmont
5. Broken Islands	10. Texada / Jededaih Islands

 

Included in multi-day trip cost: professional kayak guides, kayak instructions, kayak rental including paddles and PFD's, tents and camping gear, all meals and food, a professional photographer and a professional chef

1. Johnstone Strait

• July 20 to July 25, 2008
• August 11 to August 17, 2008

If seeing orcas is an objective for your sea kayaking adventure, then look no further than the Johnstone Strait. This passageway between Vancouver Island and the British Columbia mainland is home to the largest known population of killer whales- about 200! There is no experience more exhilirating than seeing the dorsal fin of one of these magnificent creatures as it rises from the water within feet of your kayak.

In addition to sharing the waters with orcas, this trip includes explorations of B.C. forests and abandoned Kwakiutl First Nations Villages. Ancient Indian pictographs, midden sites and totem poles will awaken you to this area's rich native history.

This trip departs from Telegraph Cove.

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2. Kyuquot Sound, Bunsby Islands, Brooks Penninsula

• August 22 to August 28th, 2008

Escape into the raw isolated beauty of Vancouver Island's west coast! Paddle through the calm, sheltered water of the Kyuquot Sound where there is much to be explored. Mountains blanketed by old-growth forest lower into the sea at this destination. On land, there are many ancient Nuu-chah-nulth sites to explore, in fact, this location is as good as any for explorations of ancient native civilization.

The temperate rainforest here is home to countless species of plants, animals, birds and ancient cedar, douglas fir and western hemlock trees. Kyuquot is truly a wilderness wonderland where days can be spent taking in the environment.

Our Kyuquot trip includes a stop in the isolated and unique Bunsby Islands as well as on the Brooks Peninsula. No matter where you paddle in this area, prepare to see plenty of wildlife including bears, bald eagles and marine mammals.

This trip departs from Fair Harbour.

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3. Nootka Sound

• June 28 to July 3 2008

About 70 km north of Tofino is this Vancouver Island west coast kayaking gem. Nootka Sound, the longtime home of the Nuu-chah-nulth First Nations, have been inhabiting this area for thousands of years, sustaining themselves off the area's rich sea life and the forest's resources. Nootka Sound has countless sheltered inlets and islands and is largely sheltered paddling, making this trip an ideal kayaking experience for paddlers of all ability levels.

Nature and wildlife lovers will delight on this trip, which gives paddlers an opporunity to walk through temperate rainforests on foot and to spot animals of the land and sea such as bears, orcas, gray whales, sea otters, seals, salmon and eagles.

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4. Clayoquot Sound

• June 20 to June 25, 2008
• August 22 to August 28, 2008

Clayoquot Sound is often referred to as the "eighth wonder of the world" or "Hawaii of the north." Once you arrive, you will not question why. Clayoquot is recognized as one of the world's most pristine temperate ecosystems and within it, you will explore an array of islands, fjords, narrows, estuaries, mudflats, rocky shores, sandy beaches, mountains, forests, lakes, streams and ocean. Most of the land here is blanketed with temperate coastal old-growth rainforest which means that 90 meter tall western hemlock, red cedar, spruce and douglas fir trees rise from the trails you will walk.

The rainforest here is truly unique, some of the last of its kind that remains intact and unlogged on the planet. We maintain that there is no better place to sea kayak in North America than the Clayoquot Sound and we celebrate our summer solstice here annually!

This trip departs from Tofino.

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