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Telegraph Cove Sea Kayak Company Offering Sea Kayak Day Trips, Overnight Trips, Nature Tours and Transports to Broughton Archipelago. We offer a consultant service for $100.

A locally based company residing in Port Mcneill, BC year round. Specializes in guided kayak tours, group transport with kayak rentals to the Broughton Archipelago. Other services include contracts with flim crews ( BBC, CBS and UK tv shows) and scuba dive charters. Our focal areas are Johnstone Strait, Blackfish Sound and the Broughton Archipelago. tckayaks maintains two offices, winter office is

located in Nanaimo @ 1-888-756-0099....summer office in Port McNeill and on the boat "Discovery Skiff" @ 1-250-619-2714. Summer operations include visitations to Telegraph Cove and Alert Bay for pickups and drop-off. We offer transport to groups in association with special kayak rentals from Port McNeill from May to October. We offer groups and families professional guided sea kayak trips. We require specific knowledge of the area or we cannot provide services to groups. Boat capacity is (8) guests and 8 kayaks. Trip planning service are available upon request and costs $100.We feel confident in offering adventurers a consultant service for trip planning which includes planning months before your departure with updated information on campsite use, tides, currents, general marine weather trends and wildlife activity. Your business allows us to financially support BC Parks, Orcalab and Strait Watch, Explore.Org, Raincoast Conservation, These agencies ensure that our area will stay pristine and wild.

With Alexandra Morton Gwayum'dzi – I just got recognized as one of their top fans! 🎉
05/02/2025

With Alexandra Morton Gwayum'dzi – I just got recognized as one of their top fans! 🎉

05/02/2025
21/01/2025

In 2024, salmon flooded into creeks at a survival rate no one thought possible. Here the DFO numbers are compiled so you can see the pattern. Rivers averaging 6000 fish saw 52,000 return, survival jumped 10-20 fold from Alert Bay through Puget Sound. This did not happen coast wide, it occurred EXACTLY where salmon farms had been closed. Salmon demonstrated how incredibly strong they are when we don't infect them with fish farm diseases. Chief Svanvik and I tried to make this report as readable as possible. We put together the numbers so you can see the pattern for yourself, see what salmon are telling us. Please do right by these fish are share these DFO numbers widely. Thank you so much
https://alexandramorton.typepad.com/alexandra_morton/2025/01/what-did-salmon-just-tell-us.html

Update on salmon returns!
21/01/2025

Update on salmon returns!

In 2024, salmon flooded into creeks at a survival rate no one thought possible. Here the DFO numbers are compiled so you can see the pattern. Rivers averaging 6000 fish saw 52,000 return, survival jumped 10-20 fold from Alert Bay through Puget Sound. This did not happen coast wide, it occurred EXACTLY where salmon farms had been closed. Salmon demonstrated how incredibly strong they are when we don't infect them with fish farm diseases. Chief Svanvik and I tried to make this report as readable as possible. We put together the numbers so you can see the pattern for yourself, see what salmon are telling us. Please do right by these fish are share these DFO numbers widely. Thank you so much
https://alexandramorton.typepad.com/alexandra_morton/2025/01/what-did-salmon-just-tell-us.html

14/12/2024
24/10/2024

Hey islanders, you can expect to see the first snowfall (dusting) on the tops of local mountain top around Nanaimo and destination northward after the cold front passes through on Friday night and Saturday morning...

01/05/2024

We are gearing up.or the 2024 summer season with offering inflation beating trip prices for families...on the other hand our transport business is grappling with increasing fuel costs!!

24/03/2024
18/02/2024

Island Link Bus is connecting more of the Island!!
Starting May 16, 2024 the bus company will connect Port Hardy, Port McNeill and Campbell River, to the rest of their extensive Vancouver Island routes. Start your reservations now:
https://www.islandlinkbus.com/booking/select-trip

Why not book the adventure of a lifetime and Kayak the Johnstone Strait and surrounding areas, staying at our Sophia Isl...
12/02/2024

Why not book the adventure of a lifetime and Kayak the Johnstone Strait and surrounding areas, staying at our Sophia Island base camp.

Renew your harmony with nature and Kayak the Johnstone Strait and surrounding areas.
11/02/2024

Renew your harmony with nature and Kayak the Johnstone Strait and surrounding areas.

26/01/2024
08/12/2023

The story of Old Tom and the killer whales of Eden, Australia is perhaps one of the most fascinating tales of humans and wild animals working together to achieve a common goal.

Much of the writing around the killer whales of Eden is focused on their cooperation with the European whalers, but the Indigenous people of the area, the Yuin, were the first to form a relationship with the killer whales. The killer whales herded baleen whales into Twofold Bay, where the Yuin performed a ceremony to call the killer whales into shore. As a result, the baleen whales often stranded, and so the Yuin and killer whales could share the carcass.

When European whalers set up shore-based whaling in the 1840s, the killer whales sparked up a relationship with them, perhaps aided by the fact the whalers hired Yuin as part of their crew. The killer whales would drive baleen whales into Twofold Bay, and one whale, usually a male known as Old Tom, would swim towards the whaling station and vigorously tail slap, alerting the whalers that there was a baleen whale nearby. The whalers would then head out in their wooden boats and worked with the killer whales to kill the baleen whale. Once the whale was killed, the whalers left the carcass for the killer whales to feed on. The killer whales ate only the lips and tongue and left the blubber mostly untouched for the whalers to process later. This was known as the “Law of the Tongue.”

By the early 20s, many of the killer whales had disappeared. Some say Norwegian whalers may have killed them off further north, or maybe the declining baleen whales made it difficult for them to stick around. Old Tom was one of the only whales left. The special relationship between the killer whales and whalers is said to have ended in 1923 when two whalers killed a whale that Old Tom had driven into the bay, but did not allow him to feed on it, breaking the “Law of the Tongue.” When Old Tom’s body was found washed up in 1930, one of the whalers who deprived him of his earned meal felt so bad that he funded the creation of the Eden Killer Whale Museum, where Old Tom’s skeleton resides today.

For more reading, I recommend checking out the following articles:

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/running-ponies/the-legend-of-old-tom-and-the-gruesome-law-of-the-tongue/

https://www.eden.nsw.au/whaling-in-eden/

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A local company operating since 1986.... during the five months of summer (May - September) servicing the kayaking public with two services. Departures are from Telegraph Cove and Port McNeill, BC. The two services we offer are guided tours and rentals in combination with transport to the Broughton Archipelago.

We service a distance of 70 miles in three directions as far North as Echo Bay and Sullivan Bay and East to Naka Bay on Johnstone Strait. After 25 years of operation in the area with the original ownership...we specializes in guided kayak tours for 3, 4 or 6 day trips. We also offer transport packages to organized clubs and groups who wish to visit the Broughton Archipelago. Caution: We do hold the line on our services to the general public and do not offer transport on select dates due to annual commitments to our tours and contracts with other agencies. Other services include contracts with film crews ( BBC, CBS, UK and Belgium tv shows ) We often have professional photographers onboard. We maintain a website at www.tckayaks.com and a page entitled ...Telegraph Cove Sea Kayaking Company. We also have a well established touring company with a spectacular basecamp in Johnstone Strait...information on our trips can be found at www.orcaseakayaking.com ......maintain home office in Nanaimo all year round @ 1-250 716-0094......mobile summer office on the boat "Discovery Skiff" @ 1-250-619-2714. Summer services include picking up guests at Port McNeill, Telegraph Cove, Alert Bay, and Alder Bay. Our company is the primary provider of rentals, transport,planning service and short day / overnight trips to experience kayaking in this scenic area. We maintain a 32 foot/10 meter landing craft vessel that is suited perfectly for accessing the rugged beaches of Johnstone Strait, Blackfish Sound and the Broughton Archipelago. Our services are used heavily over the summer and we also service a number of commercial sea kayak companies including our own company, Discovery Orca Sea Kayaking Expeditions. We offer services to groups and families with seasoned professional guided sea kayak trips. We require specific knowledge of the area or we cannot provide services to groups. Boat capacity is (8) guests and 8 kayaks. Our staff is experienced and confident in offering our services. We have little turnover which allows us to maintain a high degree of service. Our staff is updated every morning on the conditions that we can expect for that day. Our safety backup is in the number of whale watching boats on the water everyday of the summer. In a pinch, if the weather forecast indicates a down turn in the conditions: then we have a plan B approach to the day and if required alternatives to esplore for the day and evening. Your business allows us to financially support agencies that support the local community of marine mammal lovers. In one way or another we support BC Parks, Orcalab, Strait Watch, Explore.Org, Marine Trails BC, Raincoast Conservation, Conservancies and the local whale and bear watching industries of this supernatural area of Vancouver Island. These agencies ensure that our coastline will stay pristine and wild.