The F-ing Adventure!

Float / Fly / Food / Fun / fall / Fabulous / Fanciful / Fantastic / Fascinating / Flavorful

Please call for pricing, tours incur taxes and applicable fuel surcharge day of trip

Trip Times: 8:30 am to 3:15 pm OR Noon to 6:15 pm.

Season: May to end of September. Trips available daily.

Minimum 2 guests

Corilair Charters and Destiny River Adventures have partnered to treat our guests to an amazing combination of flight seeing, scenic river rafting, food, and experiencing the lifestyle of locals who live “off the grid” at two remote coastal locations. Choose a morning departure starting with the river tour – or a noon departure that starts with your flight. The tour combination is approximately 6 1/2 hours from start to finish.

Experience the latest addition to BC’s Heritage Rivers by floating the Campbell River. Explore the canyon before running the fun splashy section past the island. Float past Roderick Haig-Brown’s Heritage House looking for salmon, eagles, kingfishers, seals and other wildlife to the river estuary.

From late July to October rafters can also snorkel with the salmon. The crystal clear water allows rafters to view salmon in their natural environment – or get into the river pools teeming with thousands of salmon. All five species of Pacific salmon can be found over the course of the fall run, starting with pinks in late July and finishing with chum in October.

This is an easy trip suitable for almost everyone, with past participants ranging in age from 5 to 95 years old. A great introduction to rafting with the option of paddling or just sightseeing and going for the ride!

The river tour finishes at the Corilair floatplane terminal. After experiencing the beauty and diversity of the river there’s time to change before heading out on the aerial adventure.

Your journey off the path begins with a super scenic floatplane flight to the settlement of Refuge Cove, which borders Desolation Sound. Completely off the grid (no public access via ferries, roads or public utilities), Refuge offers our guests the unique experience of a visit at a remote community rich in history from the pioneering days of the coast. After a pause to soak up the local ambiance of this truly unique lifestyle, our aerial tour continues as we traverse Teakerne Arm (making sure everyone takes in the picturesque Teakerne Falls) enroute to a wilderness lodge for the chance to meet and eat with the locals, taste some fresh locally prepared foods and further experience the remote coastal lifestyle. The local hospitality and history, is enhanced by the final leg of our journey through the Discovery Islands back to beautiful downtown Campbell River, where our journey cumulates, with wonderful memories of rivers, rafts, wildlife, wilderness, pioneers, history, floatplanes and great local cuisine.

A 50% non-refundable deposit is required upon booking due to the nature of the combined tour. The balance is due the day of the trip. Within 5 days 100 percent non refundable.

• Youth 12 years old and under must be at least 50 lbs to fit the rafting safety equipment.
• Prices do not include 12% government HST and 2% environmental sustainability levy.

Blind Channel Trading Post Floatplane Journey

Blind Channel highlights:

The area first navigated by Vancouver 1792 . By 1910, a sawmill was in full operation at Blind channel. Approximately 8 people lived here at this time. By 1918, there was 120 people at Blind Channel and changes abounded the next few decades. By the 1930’s nine various bootleggers operated from Blind Channel. Blind Channel became a regular stop of the Union steamships, the mainstream transportation of the era. Consequently the population grew into the forties, with a cannery and a shingle mill on sight along with two dance halls. As centralization crept onto the coast of BC the population at Blind Channel, along with many other coastal communities slowly began to wane. The current owners purchased the property in 1969 and have transformed the site to what greets you today, a full service marina and resort.

Hiking Trails

Forest trails with varying degrees of difficulty lead from the resort. One pleasant loop takes visitors up to a huge first growth Western Red Cedar. Further along, the next loop intersects with logging roads, which meander up the valley and around the island.

Meals

Lunch on the deck or dinner in the restaurant. Lunch generally is barbequed hamburgers or schnitzel on a beautifully situation barbeque area and deck.

Excursion One Details

Sightseeing flight to/from Blind Channel with lunch and a hike at Blind Channel

Highlights:

• Floatplane Flight in rugged coastal British Columbia, encompassing or passing near, the Discovery Islands, Aaron Rapids, Bute Inlet, Blind Channel, Seymour Narrows, and Campbell River Spit.
• Short Layover at Blind Channel Resort
• Lunch on the barbeque at Blind Channel
• Hiking the trails- varying degrees of difficulty available

Please call for pricing, tours incur taxes and applicable fuel surcharge day of trip

Available Daily, July and August

Min 2 Guests

Advance Notice required