Category Archives: Neat Stuff

Vancouver Island Tour & Inside Passage – Photos

Wow! Capt. Tavish Campbell sent us these photos he took last week while aboard the SV Maple Leaf on our spring Vancouver Island tour, up the Island’s inside passage and into the Great Bear Rainforest. How’d he get these shots? … Continue reading

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Reaching “Wild Heaven”: Outside Magazine Awards & Haida Gwaii

Outside Magazine Recognizes Maple Leaf Adventures and Haida Gwaii in Its 2013 Active Travel Awards VICTORIA, BC – March 12, 2013 – “This is wild heaven.” With that description, the editors of Outside magazine, one of the world’s biggest travel … Continue reading

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Prince Andrew on wilderness travel in Canada: It rekindles your youth – we agree

Maureen is at an event in London mounted by the Canadian Tourism Commission to promote some of its “Signature Experiences” of Canada. (Maple Leaf Adventures has a signature experience – our Haida Gwaii (Queen Charlotte Islands) tour.) It’s been a … Continue reading

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Artists for an Oil Free Coast – The Expedition & the Art

Maple Leaf Adventures is proud to have welcomed some of BC’s most accomplished landscape artists and carvers aboard this year as part of an art expedition, organized by Mark Hobson and Raincoast Conservation Foundation, in Canada’s Great Bear Rainforest. Now, … Continue reading

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The Wild Coast of BC & Alaska by Tall Ship

Maple Leaf Adventures and the Grant MacEwan Mountain Club Present: The Wild Coast of BC & Alaska by Tall Ship Slide Show & Story Telling Event, Saturday, May 12, 2012, 7:30 pm What: A visual story telling about the Wild … Continue reading

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Video: How We Get Maple Leaf Out of the Water

Watch the video: How We Get 95-ton SV Maple Leaf Out of the Water for Maintenance! How this film was made: Brandon Harvey and Kevin Smith set up two GoPro cameras, one on the ship and one on shore. They … Continue reading

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Killer Whale and Humpback Whale Ringtones from Maple Leaf Adventures

Whale calls from your phone! How neat is that? Maple Leaf Adventures is offering these ringtones as a free gift. They’re a bit of coastal wildlife to carry with you. Each is made from whale calls recorded during Maple Leaf … Continue reading

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Time Lapse of Maple Leaf’s Home Port: Victoria Harbour

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I took advantage of the amazing view from the roof of one of Victoria’s heritage buildings to make one of my first successful time-lapse projects. More than 3200 images were taken over about an hour one afternoon in December.  The … Continue reading

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Enchanted by the Black-eyed Hermit Crab

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

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Whale Watching – First Sighting of A30 Northern Resident Killer Whales

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

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