The coast of British Columbia is a drowned mountain range, and the Inside Passage threads it ’ hundreds of miles of protected water between islands, with the Pacific held off by Vancouver Island.
Two things distinguish it. Desolation Sound is warm, improbably, because the tides meet there and the water sits and heats through the summer. And Princess Louisa Inlet is a fjord of granite walls with a waterfall at the head of it that Rockefeller called the closest thing to heaven he had seen.
Every route we shape is a starting point, not a fixed schedule. Stay a second day where the light is right, move with the weather, or follow a captain who knows the cove worth the detour. That freedom is the point of chartering. What follows is one considered way to read British Columbia; the rest we tailor to you.
