Whales, Wildlife & World Class Wines: British Columbia's Bounty

Have you ever been so close to a foraging black bear in Canada's Pacific Rim National Park you could hear the crack! of a crab shell between its teeth? Have you ever watched a crimson sun drop over the horizon while sipping a glass of Okanagan pinot noir in an outdoor hot tub? Have you ever snuggled up for a peaceful night's sleep in a private safari tent perched on the side of a vast alpine lake, accessible only by seaplane? Chances are if you've been on one of Austin-Lehman's British Columbia adventures, your answer is yes.

Pacific Rim National Park occupies a thin strip of land along the southwestern coast of British Columbia’s Vancouver Island in Canada. To the east of the park is the rugged Vancouver Island Range; to the west, the endless blue of the Pacific Ocean. Spend your days exploring calm water bays in search of orcas, ospreys and seals. Stroll barefoot along rainforest-lined beaches beneath 600-year-old Douglas firs. Explore quiet streets, Native art galleries, markets and pubs and get to know friendly locals. At night, feast on gourmet Pacific Northwestern cuisine and sip on savory wines from one of the finest grape-growing regions in the world.

Relax your mind, energize your body ignite the adventurer within with Austin-Lehman on one of our British Columbia Pacific Rim National Park Adventures.

Did You Know…

Pacific Rim National Park was first occupied by the Nuu-chah-nulth First Nations people who lived, fished and hunted the wild coastline for thousands of years.
Pacific Rim National Park consists of three areas: Long Beach, the Broken Group Islands and the West Coast Trail. The Long Beach area is named for the longest of a series of beaches on Vancouver Island's west coast, the Broken Group Islands is an archipelago of over 100 islets in the Barkley Sound and the West Coast Trail boasts 48 miles of hiking, originally used as a life saving trail for shipwrecked mariners.
"Intertidal" means "between the tides," and refers to all the land or shoreline exposed to the air at low tides, and covered by the ocean at high tides. There's an incredible abundance of life in Pacific Rim National Park's intertidal "tide pools," due largely to nutrient-rich water and a lack of pack ice and plant-eating fish.
Pacific Rim National Park experiences two high and two low tides in a typical day with roughly six hours between each low and high. The times and heights of the high and low tides change slightly with every succeeding day in response to the relative changes in location of the sun, moon and earth.

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