8-Nights Great Bear Rainforest: In Search of Spirit Bears, Grizzlies & Whales

Explore British Columbia's Coastal Wilderness Aboard a Private Sailboat

In the remote valleys of the Coast Range on Canada’s far western edge, some of the planet's oldest and tallest trees rise along salmon-studded rivers that rush to the Pacific. Pockets of centuries-old cedars and Sitka spruce soar 250 feet into the rain clouds, sheltering the pale spirit bear of Native legend. Just a few hundred of these rarely seen bears live in this isolated wilderness, and we go in search of them with local Gitga’at guides, First Nations people who have lived among them for millennia. The Great Bear Rainforest is also home to grizzlies and wolves and bald eagles that nest atop ancient hemlocks while deer and elk browse the undergrowth. Humpback whales, orcas and porpoises ply the jade-green fjords. We join them as we sail a maze of inlets in British Columbia's Inside Passage—a wilderness voyage into one of Earth’s most magnificent, pristine and at-risk natural realms.