Maple Leaf Adventures, we believe that amazing travel experiences can be good for conservation, too. We celebrate the fjords, rainforests, whales, bears, seabirds and the entire food chain of the BC/Alaska coast. It is an immeasurable treasure worth exploring and protecting. We … Continue reading
From the Great Bear Rainforest trip by Maple Leaf Adventures. Don’t know where the Great Bear Rainforest is? It’s part of the Inside Passage, specifically Canada’s Inside Passage. You can learn about the area here.
Canadian filmmaker, author and naturalist known for his amazing studies of bear behaviour will guide guests to wildlife on the BC coast with Maple Leaf Adventures Above is a video excerpt of Charlie in Bear Man of Kamchatka. Above is … Continue reading
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In the valley where this photo was taken, there was a time when grizzlies who showed their faces and trusted humans could be killed for sport. But the trophy hunting ceased in the first part of the decade and we’ve … Continue reading
By journalist Ole Helmhausen, of Mein Kanada Reiseplaner, from a June 2010 Great Bear Rainforest adventure. Beautiful work, Ole! You can see more of Ole’s work on Canada adventures at his site, Mein Kanada Reiseplaner. You can also see more … Continue reading
Maple Leaf Naturalist Briony Penn Reflects on Our Recent Great Bear Rainforest Tour in June 2010 by naturalist Briony Penn photos, from the trip, by Greg Shea (eagle) and Kevin J. Smith (bear) The division between air, land and water … Continue reading
Haida Gwaii, May 2010 The whales and bears on the B.C. coast get a lot of attention, being what we sometimes call “charismatic megafauna”. But this rich coastline is full of amazing creatures who may be small, like this black-eyed … Continue reading
We were excited to be the first people we know of to see the A30s this year, while on our Great Bear Rainforest summer trip. The A30s are one of the matrilines in the northern resident killer whale community that … Continue reading
REPORT FROM THE SHIP Here is an update we received via satellite from the ship. The crew and 8 guests are on a sailing cruise along the entire B.C. coast, from Prince Rupert to Comox, B.C. This report was sent … Continue reading
This beautiful photo by first mate Paul Smith shows a grizzly sow in her autumn world: a brilliant green and gold estuary, where a small river lets salmon penetrate the rainforest after a journey up a coastal fjord. In the … Continue reading
