Grizzly Tour - Bute

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Rates

• August 20 - 27 & Sept 27 - Oct 15 $499 + fees and taxes
• August 28 - Sept 26 $545 + fees and taxes

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Duration

8-9 Hours

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About

Booking a Grizzly Bear tour will be an experience like no other. You will journey to the Orford River Valley aboard a comfortable, modern, high speed covered vessel. The Orford River offers some of the best Grizzly Bear viewing on the west coast. Bring your camera as the specially designed viewing platforms provide ideal photo opportunities. Campbell River Whale Watching and Wildlife Adventure tours will the Grizzly Bear experience of a lifetime.

• Comfortable modern high speed covered vessel
• Specially designed viewing platforms
• Ideal photo opportunities
• Experienced guides

You will journey to the Orford River Valley aboard a comfortable, modern, high speed covered vessel. The Orford River offers some of the best Grizzly Bear viewing on the west coast. We will travel 2 hours, by boat, through the Discovery Islands and up Bute Inlet as far as the Orford River. When we arrive, we will be met by the Homalco First Nation guides and transfer to our van. After a short orientation, we then drive to the bear viewing platforms. From our perch in the viewing towers, situated above the salmon spawning channel, you will have an unobstructed view of Grizzly Bears as they roam the river banks.

What is Included

We supply

• Light snack during the tour
• Lunch and coffee/hot chocolate/tea
• Boat transport to and from the Orford River
• Transport to and from the viewing platforms
• Interpretive guides

What to bring

• Cameras/binoculars
• Your sense of adventure

What to Wear

• Dress in layers with a rainproof jacket
• Sturdy walking shoes (hiking boots are not necessary)

The boat has a heater and the viewing platforms are covered and protected from the elements, but the weather changes.

Bear Viewing Guidelines

• Food or beverage other than water must not be consumed or carried on your person near the river, estuary, or viewing stands to avoid any possible food conditioning of the bears.
• Smoking is not permitted on the Grizzly Tour (which is 3 hours). You will have the opportunity to before and after.
• Photographic flash devices startle the bears and may chase them off. Please turn your camera flash off.
• Please keep noise and movement on the viewing stands to a minimum to avoid displacing the bears from their food source.
• Please do not signal to the bears in any way using hand motions or auditory signals. The bear will ignore you but will soon drift off into the bush. Just be patient and ready for when a good picture opportunity presents itself.
• Be aware that bears are particularly sensitive to smell. Please avoid wearing strong smelling perfumes or deodorants, and citronella insect repellent.
• No pepper spray, bear spray, or firearms