Northern Lights Expeditions Newsletter 800-754-7402

25th Anniversary

It’s our 25th season on the British Columbia coast and we’ll continue to spare no effort to bring you the finest wilderness kayaking adventures in the world. Here’s what’s in store for 2007:

Our Heritage Trips:
Revisiting Baja w/ a special 25th Anniversary Mothership adventure to the Sea of Cortez. Only one date is available, April 16-21, and there are just a few spaces left. From our departure point of La Paz on the southern Baja Peninsula, our ship travels northward from island to island in the inland sea, encountering dolphins, whales, pelicans and, while snorkeling, amazing variety of fish and even sea lions.

Our Classic Trips:
Our Inside Passage kayaking trips are the benchmark for quality wilderness sea kayaking adventures. Our two pristine camps serve as comfortable bases from which to explore some remarkably varied habitats, as well as to encounter many of the large variety of wildlife living in the sea, on the islands and in the air. Whales and eagles are the icons of these adventures.

Our Most Popular New Trips Ever:
Our Wild Orca Adventures took off immediately when we started them just five years ago. While they are the shortest trips we have offered in a long time at only four days, they’re packed with wildlife and kayaking. And if you have just one extra day, you can add a spectacular grizzly watching experience to your holiday. With whales and grizzlies, you’ll experience the two most impressive large animals in North America.

Exciting Additions for Our 25th Season

Here are some of the improvements you’ll see this season:

• We will be supplying new, soft and warm sleeping bags this season, with luxurious silk/cotton liners; no need to pack your own or to go out and buy a sleeping bag.

• In the ‘Blackfish Café’: whenever possible and practical, we will use organically produced food in our camp kitchen. We have some new recipes for you and we’ll also be providing enough wine for a taste at each evening meal.

• We’ll have a whole new set of expedition quality tents this season, roomy, comfortable and with good ventilation.

• New sleeping pads, too: softer, larger, more comfortable than ever before.

• Bar-b-Qs: at each base camp, we’ll have a great bar-b-q to help make our meals even better.

• Hydrophones: at our two camps along Johnstone Strait, we’ll have fixed hydrophones that will transmit any orca calls in the area into our camp.

• Last but not least, we’re aiming to have the finest outhouses on the coast this season.

• Guides: while some of our best guides from 2006 are returning, we have upgraded our staff by adding four excellent new guides with great personalities and lots of experience. Stay tuned for our next newsletter where we'll start to introduce you to our 2007 guides.

2007 Trips Are Filling Up

If this is the year for you to join us, you may want to give us a call now. Last season, we were forced to turn away over sixty guests who called us too late and some of our trips are already full for this season! Check out our various camping trip options and also see our schedule for the 2007 season. We look forward to having you share our 25th season with us.