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...return for spending thousands of dollars on a vacation, wildlife viewers want knowledgeable and personable guides and staff. At Knight Inlet Lodge, the guests applaud the staff, no less attractive than the Baywatch gang, only fully clothed and better educated. Guest Larry Jandrew of Asheville, N.C., who brought a family party of himself and seven others to the lodge, was particularly taken by Meg Pocklington, a Vancouver Aquarium Marine Science Center research assistant, who during a long hike through the rain forest took special care of Jandrew's mother-in-law Kitty Conley. Pat Chadwick and Sam Twyford, a retired...
Just as supportive as the staff at Knight Inlet were those at Paradise Found Adventure Tours (www.paradisefound.bc.ca), where I swam with the salmon. The opportunity to get up close and personal with salmon was high on my agenda for this trip, because most of the animals I would see depend for their survival on these fish. As the sun set on Campbell River in Vancouver Island, I drifted with the current through clear water. Because my guide, Jamie Turko, was so determined to protect me, I could totally focus on one of nature's great mysteries: the journey of Pacific...
Ecotours are often about native culture as well as animals. At Knight Inlet in western Canada, guests may visit the home village of guide Nick Chowdhury, a member of the Tanakteuk Band. Across the country in a very different landscape, Cree guides lead animal lovers in Polar Bear Provincial Park. Traveling with Free Spirit Air Adventures www.elmhirst.com) Alice Piacentini of Prospect, Ohio, flew with her husband, four children ranging then from six to 14, and her parents-in-law to the 9,100-sq.-mi. park in northern Ontario. While everyone in the family was thrilled by the bears, they...
...Piacentinis learned about the polar-bear park by chance, but many ecotourists find out about such places from television or magazines--and then use the Internet to research or book their trips. Knight Inlet Lodge's Internet site, www.grizzlytours.com has helped attract people from the U.S. and 17 other countries. Larry Jandrew chose Knight Inlet because his wife Barb, a bear fan, had watched an A&E television show, in which the lodge was touted as the fifth most exotic vacation on earth...
...home to hundreds of species of birds and other animals, the ecotourist can fly north to watch the polar bears, drive a few hours from Toronto to listen to wolves, or skim over dark forests and mist-swathed mountains in a tiny floatplane, as I did to reach Knight Inlet. The journey is one of the most satisfying aspects of an adventure that will make even a jaded world traveler feel like a child whose picture book has come to life...