A new award that recognizes visitors’ great experiences in the Island region went to Victoria-based Maple Leaf Adventures this week. It’s an award whose time has come, says its sponsor. Tourism Vancouver Island’s Remarkable Experience Award recognized Maple Leaf Adventures, a boutique expedition cruise company, for its Salish Sea expedition that enriched and transformed the […]
Dear Friends, A phrase bubbling up more and more in travel industry circles these days is transformational travel. It’s a short-cut that some guides use to explain a trip that gives you such a great experience, it takes you out of your everyday to a place of bliss or to a new sense of place […]
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge splash light on two spectacular but little-known parts of Canada this month, with their royal tour visit to the Great Bear Rainforest and Haida Gwaii. How can you explore the protected rainforest, bears, and monumental cultural sites that they will see, yourself? Local companies have been pioneering safari-like trips […]
Although Maple Leaf Adventures’ trips in the Great Bear Rainforest this autumn are full, we have found a way to offer those interested another great trip here in September – and you’ll be directly helping to protect bears at the same time. You can book passage, through us, on a trip in the Great Bear […]
by Kevin Smith It is a milestone for many people, including me: the finalization of the Great Bear Rainforest agreement was announced this month. The agreement enshrines protection for forest land and ecosystems in the 6.4 million hectare Great Bear Rainforest, on the central and north coast of BC, Canada. What does it mean? Some […]
by Maureen Gordon, Maple Leaf Adventures Here we are, April 1, 2015, and unbelievably it is the opening of another season in which people are permitted to enter our protected areas and kill grizzly bears just for fun. But April 1 is also about the time that adventure tourism starts to pick up in British […]
November 4, 2014 – The international sustainable tourism certification body, Green Tourism, has shortlisted three Canadian companies for its GoldStar awards next month, and British Columbia’s Maple Leaf Adventures is one of them. Maple Leaf operates boutique expedition cruises in the fjords and archipelagos of British Columbia and Alaska. Focussing on providing peak experiences for […]
A classic tug refit into an expedition yacht offers adventures in British Columbia and Alaska May 27, 2014, Victoria, BC – British Columbia-based Maple Leaf Adventures is adding a new ship to its fleet for 2015: Swell is an 80-foot, classic wooden tugboat which has been beautifully restored to offer boutique expedition cruises along the dramatic […]
As a company that’s part of British Columbia’s important eco-adventure tourism industry, we’ve written a lot about bear viewing tourism versus bear trophy hunting (as opposed to hunting for food). Some of the concepts are summarized like this: If you are in Victoria, BC, on Saturday, Feb. 15 at 2 pm, and you support this […]
Today the legacy pole is raised at Windy Bay, Gwaii Haanas, in Haida Gwaii! – A 5-minute video from the Haida Nation and Parks Canada about the pole: This beautiful pole, carved over the last year by Jaalen Edenshaw, commemorates the 20th anniversary of the creation of the Gwaii Haanas agreement, between the Haida Nation […]