We are an award-winning, niche adventure travel company specializing in wildlife and cultural expeditions to Canada’s Great Bear Rainforest, the Haida Gwaii Archipelago, Northern Vancouver Island, and the Southern Gulf Islands and Salish Sea.
Outer Shores Expeditions offers intimate tours of Canada’s Great Bear Rainforest and surrounding islands, a magical region of stunning beauty and immense biodiversity. Join our Spring or Fall expeditions and let us show you a place you’ll never forget – a place that offers new surprises and captures the imagination like few places on Earth.
The remote island archipelago of Haida Gwaii stands alone in a country teeming with spectacular wilderness areas and offers unmatched wildlife viewing paired with an Indigenous cultural heritage dating back more than 16,000 years.
Observing, photographing, learning about, and simply being amazed by the spectacular populations of killer whales, humpback whales, dolphins, porpoises, sea lions, sea otters, and seabirds that congregate in the coastal waters of Northern Vancouver Island is the central focus of this expedition.
Join us in exploring Gulf Islands National Park Reserve within British Columbia’s Salish Sea and Southern Gulf Islands Archipelago.
Our West Coast Vancouver Island expeditions aboard the schooner Passing Cloud take us on a remarkable exploration of the ecosystems, wildlife, natural history, Indigenous cultures, and the post-contact era of Barkley Sound and the Broken Group Islands of Pacific Rim National Park Reserve.
Maurice Kasprowsky After humans, killer whales are likely the second most widely distributed mammal on the planet. They occur in every ocean and are considered
Few places on Earth rival the richness and complexity of the Great Bear Sea. Its sheltered fjords, kelp forests, estuaries, and archipelagoes support an extraordinary
It’s hard to believe, but with the onset of 2026, Outer Shores Expeditions has entered our 15th year of exploring and experiencing the BC coast
