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Only $1650 per day based on up to 4 persons per voyage. Taxes not included.

10 day tours require a 25% deposit.

Chesapeake Charters offers you an all inclusive, world class fishing and scenic cruising Tour out of Prince Rupert, British Columbia.  Combine first class fishing and our five or ten-day wildlife, scenic adventure tour and you have the perfect holiday or relaxation package available. Enjoy feasting on shrimp and crabs, fish for salmon, halibut, cod or red snapper. View eagles, wolfs, Black, Grizzly, Spirit or Kermode bears from a front row seat on your yacht. Take a swim in sulphur free, natural hot springs.  Observe Orca and Humpback whales feeding or hunting on salmon and Krill.

Enjoy a five or ten day holiday cruising and sightseeing.  Spend some time whale watching and bear sighting.  You can fish remote, fresh water lakes and marvel in the spectacular scenery.  The beauty of this country is bountiful. Waterfalls, sheer cliffs and snow capped mountains, which disappear into the ocean.  Catch shrimp and crabs or just relax in one of several sulphur free hot springs that dot the area.

Fish a remote river that is normally only accessible by floatplane or Jet boat, then return in the late afternoon to your awaiting yacht, Tidaldeane, for Happy Hour and dinner. Avid fly fishermen may enjoy a ride up river on our jet boat where they can fish a remote river or freshwater lake. 

Our ten day excursions will take you through British Columbia’s Inside Passage and all the way to Kitimaat   The Inside Passage is an internationally significant scenic corridor and is used extensively by many yachts and cruise ships.  The Greenville Channel is reputed to be the most scenic part of the entire Inside Passage.  Discover the rich biodiversity of this temperate rainforest and the large mammals that make it their home.  These include the Black, Grizzly and the special white bear known as Spirit bear or Kermode bear. British Columbia's coastal rainforest holds some of the oldest and largest trees in the world Sitka Spruce, Douglas Fir, Western Hemlock, Red Cedar just to name a few.  These can reach heights up to 275 feet and grow to be 275 years old.  Giant snow covered mountains reach the fiord inlets and disappear into the water.  These are all likely areas to view Orcas and Humpback whales as well as white striped porpoises.  

All of our excursions start in Prince Rupert, BC.  The 10 day excursions end in Kitimat. From there passengers will be driven in our Van back to Prince Rupert.  The village of Kitimat is a beautiful small community surrounded by high mountains and salmon rivers, including the important Kitimat Salmon River.  Kitimat is also home to Canada's well known Alcan Aluminium Smelter Company. 

	An inquisitive wolverene that is rarely seen, sneaks a peak at our charter boat at Lowe Inlet.

Our excursions take us south leaving the port of Prince Rupert, passing the new container Port that accepts Asia's manufactured goods to be distributed in containers all across North America.  We will pass the grain terminal, a mayor facility from where the Western Canadian provinces’ wheat is shipped to Asian and other forgein markets.  We then pass the coal terminal another mayor starting point  for Western Canada's Coal to be shipped to world markets.  About 20 miles south we pass the Smith and Kennedy Islands.  This is the place where the mighty Skeena enters the Pacific Ocean in 3 different places.  This river, along with the Nass River is the beginning of a major river network where thousands of salmon, ready to spawn, start their journey back to the rivers and creeks where they where born.  Depending on the tides we can stop and fish for a while.  We can either try for salmon or see if we can hook up with a large Halibut.  No one ever knows what is lingering in these bountiful Northern waters.  Humpback Bay, as the area is called, is home to one of the once operating fish canneries that abound along the BC coast.  What is left of them today belongs to private individuals but is nonetheless an interesting sight to see.  It gives one an idea of the bustling economy the Northern fisheries was and still is today.  By late afternoon we stop for the night in the picturesque little community of Hunts Inlet where you can enjoy a short walk along its waterfront.  These islands offer a chance to view the interesting and unusual plant life of the area along its paths as well as the pretty, little houses that people have built here.  Next morning, after a hardy breakfast, we travel on passing the largest place where the Skeena meets the Pacific Ocean.  Millions of gallons of freshwater flow into the ocean here, turning the blue to a beautiful emerald green.  By August some huge halibut lay at the mouth of the river waiting for dead salmon to float back downstream making for an easy meal.

A pod of hungry humback whales bubble feed on Krill.

From here we have several prime anchorages to choose from.  Two of the more interesting one are Kumelean Inlet and the secluded Bakers Inlet.  Kumelean Inlet holds a freshwater lake at its north end and is separated from the ocean by a set of rapids.  This lake is only accessible by kayak and jet boat and only at high tide. Bears and other animals frequent this area especially during salmon season.  Kumelean Inlet is also the site of an operating logging camp.  And the site, where many years ago, a large wooden ship sunk in the bay.  This spot also marks the beginning of the Grenville Channel. 

Grenville Channel is a beautiful passage about 150 km long with steep, high mountains reaching out from the ocean on either side.  Many waterfalls and rapids with freshwater lakes above them are seen on this long stretching, finger-like corridor.  We pass through precipitous, Rocky Mountains covered with stunted cedar, their sides furrowed by avalanches and summits capped with white snow.  The mountains on the mainland rising to the height of 3500 feet.  Midway between the beginning and the end of this long channel the tides meet in a spectacular way.  The water takes on the appearance of having come to a boil at times and it offers quite a dramatic sight.  This is the area where we will spend our next night.  Kluenuggit Marine Park is a fiord like side arm and is located about midway through the Grenville Channel.  It sends long fingers into the abrupt hills of the mainland coast.  Freda and Brodie Lake above are part of this beautiful Park.  There are hiking trails leading to Brodie Lake near its river outlet and a trail on the NW side of the river between the two lakes. It is also a beautiful place to spend the night and boasts shrimp and crab in its waters, perfect for our planned seafood dinner.  Klewnuggit Inlet Marine Provincial Park is one of a group of marine parks along the Inside Passage of British Columbia’s spectacular coast.  It offers hiking and canoeing opportunities to Brodie and Freda lakes.  As well as scenic waterfalls on Sparkling Creek between Freda and Brodie lakes.  The next morning we can explore this area before heading on to Lowe inlet.  

Lowe Inlet is about 100 km south of Prince Rupert and is one of the most attractive stops on the Inside Passage.  This is due to the wondrous sight of the migrating salmon trying to leap up river over the waterfalls.  Watch salmon in their effort to navigate Verney Falls and observe bears catching, or trying to catch, these leaping salmon.  There is no fishing in the pool for us, as it is a protected park, but that does not stop us from watching the entire show from a front row seat in the bay.  This is also the site of an old fish cannery.  Today only a few reminders are given us to hint of its former glory days. Lowe Inlet is also an old traditional fishing place for natives of the Kitkatla Nation and we can still see the century's old stone fish traps that they once used.  Lowe inlet also has hiking trails and lakes to explore.

TIDALDEAN entering Bakers Inlet where we anchor and drop traps for crab and shrimp. Here we enjoy a fresh seafood dinner with quiet, mystical surroundings of the stately trees of the rainforest.		Stellar seals bark and bustle under the noon day sun at Prince Leboo Island.