The beginnings of Northern Lights occurred during seasons of solo kayaking expeditions on the British Columbia coast beginning in 1980. They progressed to the “on a napkin” stage in 1982 after weeks of trial guiding over two seasons. Northern Lights is the originator of the idea of taking paddlers sea kayak touring in the Johnstone Strait and Blackfish Archipelago areas of British Columbia with the goals of encountering whales and other wildlife.

Over the course of over a quarter century since our first trip, Northern Lights: operated the first sea kayaking expeditions to the Galapagos Islands; took paddlers on exploratory trips to the South Pacific, to Costa Rica, and to the Canadian Atlantic coast and the waters of the beluga whale; operated successful kayaking trips in the San Juan Islands, the Sea of Cortez and the grey whale breeding lagoons on the Baja Peninsula’s Pacific coast; even explored kayaking on tributaries of the Upper Amazon River. We have decided over the past few years to run our trips only in the best kayaking waters in any ocean, those of the coast of British Columbia. Yet every bit of our wealth of knowledge and experience we gained all over the world goes into perfecting our British Columbia kayaking trips.