Luxury fly-in fishing & wilderness retreat - Princess Royal Island, BC

3, 4 and 7 night luxury packages at a floating wilderness Lodge, May - September

• All-inclusive packages (roundtrip flights Vancouver to Lodge, all food & beverage, premium bar, all guided activities included*)
• Ocean fishing in June, family picnics and long summer days in July/August
• World class fly-out fly-fishing, hiking, kayaking, helicopter and wildlife viewing adventures
• Spirit (Kermode) Bear trips in September

 
*excluding Spa treatments, helicopter activities & bear viewing

Activities offered at this luxury wilderness lodge:
Guided ocean fishing ^#,  guided fly-fishing ^#,  guided hiking & heli-hiking, guided kayaking, guided wildlife viewing, and cultural activities.
A wildlife species activity calendar will help you to decide on the best vacation and viewing times.

Click here to see a 3 min. video about this unique location.


^# Bottom Fish, various Rock Fish, Greenling, Ling Cod, Rock Cod, Yellow Eye (aka Red Snapper), Halibut, Salmon (5 species), Chinook (aka Spring or King), Chum (aka Dog Salmon), Coho (aka Silver), Pink (aka Humpback Salmon), Sockeye (aka Red)

Photo Gallery

The Spa at the Lodge offers sauna, steam bath, plunge pool and Jacuzzi:

• Therapeutic massages (Custom Massage, Deep Tissue Massage, Hot Stone Massage, Hot Stone with Deep Tissue Massage, Reflexology & Leg Massage, Teen Wellness Massage, Raindrop Therapy)
• Exfoliation & Body Wraps

Princess Royal Island, in British Columbia, is part of the Great Bear Rain Forest, the largest remaining temperate coastal rain forest. That area, containing more than 15 million acres, has only about 25,000 inhabitants. The island is located amongst the isolated inlets and islands of Canada’s Pacific shore, the British Columbia Coast, and is the largest island on BC's central coast. This is an extremely remote area of British Columbia, 520 kilometers north of Vancouver and 200 kilometers south of Prince Rupert, accessible only by boat or air. Aside from the Tsimshian, who once inhabited a coastal village on the island but now no longer live here, almost no people have entered the inland rainforest of Princess Royal Island. The island is best known as being home to the legendary white Kermode bear, Spirit Bear of the North Coast of British Columbia. These magnificent bears are not found anywhere else in the entire world. Other wildlife on Princess Royal Island includes a large population of black bears, grizzly bears, deer, wolves and foxes, and nesting populations of golden eagles, bald eagles, and the endangered marbled murrelet. Marine life around the island includes abundant salmon, elephant seals, orcas and porpoises (Wikipedia).

It is one of the most spectacular landscapes on Earth, with towering peaks, granite-faced cliffs that plunge to indigo fjords, and valleys laced with rushing streams. Humpback, gray, and killer whales cruise the inlets and channels. And deep in the hemlock rain forests of this, British Columbia's central coast, dwells an unusually rare, white form of the common black bear. There may be no more than a few hundred in all, about 160 of them on Princess Royal Island, living amid ten times as many standard black bears. For decades, they have been known as Kermode bears, after B.C.'s early-20th-century provincial museum curator Francis Kermode, the first naturalist to acquire a specimen.

The Kermode bear plays a part in local First Nations lore and religion. Legend has it that long ago the area where the spirit bear lives was covered in ice and snow. Raven saw this and decided to make the land lush and green for the people. But as a reminder to the people of the misery they had once lived in, he made every tenth bear white like ice. This is perhaps a memory of the ice ages transmitted through folklore. Today the Tsimshian people call white Kermode bears moskÓgm'ol, which simply means "white bear". It can also be translated into a word meaning "To be fresh".

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* Please Note: All prices quoted are per person and do not include GST and applicable taxes. Helicopter excursions, Kermode Bear viewing, spa services, gratuities, and conservation charge are not included in rates. Please inquire about group rates. Round-trip flights from Vancouver to the lodge with a light meal on board are included.

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