West Coast Expeditions - Highlights
Geological Features
Native Culture
Intertidal Exploration
Forest Walks
Wildlife

GEOLOGICAL FEATURES

The Brooks Peninsula is one of the few glacial refugia in BC, which avoided glaciation during our most recent ice age, 11,000 years ago. We walk along its secluded beaches that stretch before primordial forests and explore islands once part of the sea floor, where fossil remains date back to the Jurassic Period.

NATIVE CULTURE

The history of the First People unfolds before you as we walk amongst uninhabited villages and some of the last original totem poles remaining on Vancouver Island. On expeditions with a strong human history focus, village elders will share their fascinating culture. The Jules family joins us at our base camp each week for an informal evening of conversation and traditional food.

West Coast Expeditions cherishes the friendship and trust we have built between First Nations and the community of Kyuquot. Using our knowledge and expertise, we also work closely with conservation agencies and government to help foster understanding and stewardship of the local environment.

INTERTIDAL EXPLORATION

The living landscape revealed at low tide is an unusual and fascinating habitat. We will find here not only a rich variety of plants and animals, but also astounding colour, form and texture layer upon layer.

FOREST WALKS

Experience the quiet splendor of an ancient temperate rainforest as we walk amongst these 250-foot giants of the Clanninnick Creek Ecological Reserve, Nasparti and lower Tahsish watersheds. Primarily dominated by Sitka Spruce, these old forests are home to wolf, elk, bear and many other forest dwellers.