Another season in the BC Great Bear Rainforest! This is absolutely our favourite area and there are lots of great photos in the Gallery section of our website. Here is an entirely random sampler from our 2008 season.
Team work to relaunch a kayak . . . what a lunch stop!
Another day in the “office” for the Skipper. . . . “What a great view from here, and always changing!”
Lead Guide/Cook and Cook/Assistant Guide: Daughter and Mother: Miray and Fern.
Three time Mothership offender, Scott, looking pretty darn coastal.
Another “three timer” Dr. Ed kept us all on our toes. Erudition is his bread and butter and we had some seroius edumacating to keep up to the breadth and witt of his intellect!
Luke and Miray finally got themselves a “real” camera and telephoto lens after much cajouling by the professional photographers that join us. They are so often in the “right spot at the right time” that it really did seem a shame that they weren’t equipped properly. So this summer Luke got an amazing number of great wildlife shots which are now sprinkled through out our website.
Sea otters can be frustratingly shy and quick, so Luke was really excited to catch this shot.
A spirit bear teaser!
This is what it looks like if you stare straight into the open mouth of a bubble netting hump back whale. The whales create a circular wall of rising bubbles to corral a school of fish in one place . . . and then look out! The whale then charges straight up from below, mouth open, to scoop up dinner. It is really dramatic!
Now this is a cool shot! Oh, Oh, sorry. I’m not supposed to brag, but look at this shot! Two grizzlies feeding on salmon AND the Columbia III in the same frame. Honest, no PhotoShop manipulation.
And more birthdays. One for our daughter, Miray, and one for a guest from the United States. We always have a secret stash of candles and little “extras” . . . just in case we discover an anniversary or birthday or . . . well, any excuse for a party.
A lass from the “Emerald Isle” joined us for 6 days and liked it enough to book again for 2009 to join our 9 night tour.
Cool your heals on a mid summer snow patch left over from the winter before.
A world renowned naval architect tries to figure the GM for his latest project . . . or perhaps it is the Center of Bouyancy that is missing from this ship.
Photographer Robert Berdan: always in the best mood, always excited, always having fun, and absolutely READY to take pictures, day or night!
A couple from Britain . . . rebooked for our Broughton Archipelago tour in 2009
Doug Neasloss, Kitasoo First Nations guide, brings his quiet integrity aboard.
So everybody else gets to go paddling, and exploring, and photographing, and seeing cool stuff like Spirit Bears and whales and incredible intertidal marine life and share great camaraderie and poor, poor me left behind each day . . . to relax on arguably the nicest boat on the BC coast, catch up on my sleep and simply gaze out the window at this amazing world.
I have the best “job” in the world and I KNOW IT!!!
