Multi-day ocean kayaking courses in Clayoquot Sound with Rainforest Kayaking
2 nights accommodation – at Long Beach Lodge Resort, Wickanninish Inn or Middle Beach Resort in a luxurious suite or cottage with first class amenities, includes breakfast.
Plus the following options:
Return Airfare from Vancouver Airport, VIP charter plane leaves from executive airport in Vancouver plus
Luxury SUV shuttle service with Pacific Navigator
Each course is offered at different times of the year, check the dates that each course is offered to see what is available during your visit to Tofino.
These courses are designed for paddlers with previous training and experience who are ready for adventure! Rainforest Kayak Adventures provides the best available hands-on training in practical seamanship and navigation for sea kayakers. Take advantage of their combined 40 years of expedition and teaching experience. The course content have been distilled down to the essential knowledge and techniques you need to cope with ocean conditions such as tides, currents, weather, wind, waves, fog, traffic, ocean swell, and surf.
With extensive experience teaching adventure kayaking, and the benefit of smaller group size (maximum 8 participants), they are able to give you maximum personal attention. Their focus is to meet each individual where they are at, and to help you to progress towards your personal learning goals.
Each day you will look over the charts and tide tables, listen to the marine weather report, and come up with a paddling plan. While on the water, you will have the opportunity to take a turn navigating under the expert guidance of Bonny Glambeck and Dan Lewis.
Outdoor living stimulates a healthy appetite that will be satisfied with wholesome and delicious meals, using a variety of quality ingredients. The menu includes home-baked desserts, wild salmon, and organically grown fresh fruit and vegetables.
All kayaking equipment and accessories, tents, and group camping gear are provided.
Adventure Kayaking 101
Dates: July 24-29, August 7-12, 2006
Price start at $1500 per person
The goal of this course is to prepare intermediate paddlers to plan kayak camping trips with friends in open coastal waters. It would be an exciting challenge for a keen beginner with previous training or experience, and will benefit even the most seasoned touring kayakers.
General Itinerary:
The first two days will be spent in Tofino developing skills and knowledge. You will spend the first day learning intermediate strokes, and playing in a small tidal rapid near Tofino. The second day is spent surfing at Long Beach. Day three you leave on a 4-day camping trip on Clayoquot Sound's open coastal waters.
Pre-requisite: AK 101 or equivalent training or experience
Dates: August 28 - September 2, 2006
Price start at $1500 per person
This course is the follow-up to the AK 101 course. Apply and further develop the surf and open coast touring skills from 101 in an expedition setting! After getting dropped off by boat at Hot Springs Cove at the north end of Clayoquot Sound, participants will jointly develop a plan for the return trip by kayak. Theory will be reviewed on an as-needed basis, and the navigation and paddling skills presented in AK 101 will be put to use daily.
General Itinerary:
Don't miss this opportunity to join an expedition down some of the most spectacular and challenging open coastline on Vancouver Island. You may have to deal with everything from fog, to big seas, to dream-like, windless days with sun sparkling off the gentle swell!
You will travel in comfort aboard the MV Browning Pass, to Hot Springs Cove, at the north end of Clayoquot Sound. Here you’ll set up a base camp, and head for a soak after preparing for the expedition.
Next morning, you will embark on a 5-day, 25 nautical mile trip, traversing the outer coast of Clayoquot Sound. The trip includes a number of "crux moves" -- challenges which will hone your seamanship and paddling skills. Highlights include a soak at Hot Springs Cove, surf landings on remote wilderness beaches, sea otter sightings, and the summer resident gray whales of Cow Bay.TF-PK-AKfrm.htm
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