Your
guides to discovery on the Queen Charlotte Islands, Dr. Norm Carsley
& associates will take you to the wildest and most remote places
in complete comfort and safety. Our fully narrated bus tours will
bring you to places you could not likely reach by independent travel.
Do you know where to see beavers swimming through the water or building
dams and beaver houses? Well, we will take you to these special places.
Beavers are immediately identifiable by the slaps they make with their
tails onto the surface of the water. All around these wilderness islands
there are special places to see each of the many different forms of
wildlife. We will use specially chosen minibuses and buses to travel
through the backroads in order to reach these most exciting, yet relatively
unknown, locations.
On our way, we will encounter many birds and several large wildlife
species such as the black bear and sitka deer. We will also encounter
many species of smaller animals such as the ermine, the marten, the
river otter and the weasel. Birds, of too many varieties to list,
will be seen all along the way sometimes appearing at the least expected
times. The rarest and most secretive deep forest birds will also be
encountered. In addition, we will visit the Delkatla Bird Sanctuary
where we will be guided by a learned birder to see all manner of wading
birds and shorebirds. Delightful trumpeter swans, sandhill cranes,
geese and many varieties of ducks will be found to be very plentiful.
As we travel towards and through Rennell Sound on the west coast of
the islands, yet different species of birds will again be seen. We
will walk along several picturesque beaches such as Gregory Beach
and Bonanza Beach to spot the birds but there is a good chance we
will also see whales as we walk the shoreline along these beaches.
We
will park the buses and, in nature walks, study the various unique
plant forms some of which exist only on these islands. We will likely
see many species of ferns and the uncanny orchids. Many kinds of berry
shrubs and trees also proliferate throughout these areas. In addition,
we will study the medicinal qualities of certain special herbs used
by the Haidas since their ancestors, thousands of years ago, established
these islands as their home.
