Photostream from Flickr

We are wrapping up our guide season soon and will be posting the BEST of 2009 soon!

Here is a quick link to some of our lodge slides on Flickr. Enjoy and see you around.

Fraser and Holly

Old Dogs, New Tricks...

This just shows that old guides can learn new tricks. This picture is my father and long-time Bella Coola and Atnarko River fishing and bear guide on the sticks of one of Kynoch Adventures' tour rafts!

Les Koroluk is an icon in the guiding and tourism industry in Bella Coola Valley BC, but for years has been holding on to his precious Clackacraft Drift Boat for bear tours and guiding. With low water in the Atnarko River and a raft available for the day, I convinced him to try out the lighter boat for a guided float.


The raft handled better than he thought, and for a 'little' over 65 years old, he handled it like the river pro he is!!! Les guides bears for us in the fall in Tweedsmuir Park, with our tours operated from Bella Coola's Coast Mountain Lodge.


Les Koroluk was practically the founder of Bear Viewing tours in Bella Coola, as he developed this form of tourism over the last 25 years, as angling guiding morphed into eco-tourism and now grizzly bear viewing.


On this trip we had two boats out and saw plenty of grizzly bears with some awesome video footage and great photo opportunities.

Bears of Bella Coola, September 8, 2009

Here is a little bit more video we collected from the trips this week. This stuff was just shot from a camera at the back of the raft by the guide, the clients with the good cameras get the really great shots (that's why we give them the front seats!!!).

These tours are 3-5 hours depending on the bear activity and are guided by a professional biologist to ensure guests get an ecologically satisfying experience and learning adventure in the great bear rain forest that we call HOME!

See everyone soon in Bella Coola for some bear viewing with Kynoch Adventures and Coast Mountain Lodge!

Cheers, Fraser and Holly

Dreaming of Monday, Aug. 31, Bears on the JAM

Last week were were treated to some excellent bear viewing, watching a sow and two 2-year old cubs feeding on salmon. Our guests were happy and the bears were obviously 'catching' not just 'fishing'.

Enjoy this video clip and we will see you in Bella Coola.

Bear Viewing is in full swing in Bella Coola

Bear tours have started now that our salmon are in the rivers, after a short hiatus owing to unseasonably warm temperatures! The weather is stabilizing with fine late summer conditions after a sweltering August, and in the last week the pink and coho salmon numbers have skyrocketed in the Atnarko River. This will bring the bears down from the mountains and provide excellent opportunities for bear tours in Bella Coola and Tweedsmuir Park.

Kynoch Adventures tours' for bear viewing are leaving daily from Coast Mountain Lodge and there is always a great opportunity to see our wildlife!