The Inside Passage

Get your minds out the gutter, this is not a rude post about a certain body region....Sid, I'm thinking of you now.... but yet another installment from my long-running Canadian collection (and you'd hoped thought they'd finally fizzled out!).

One of the longest, but most relaxing days of the tour was the 14 hour ferry trip from Port Hardy on the north of Vancouver Island, along the Inside Passage to Bella Coola near Tweedsmuir.

Map found here

It was like taking a mini cruise....there were sunloungers on deck (it was just a tad too cold and windy to suntan though!) and inside recliners for just chilling out, a restaurant/coffee shop serving snacks, and in the evening, the staff cooked a barbeque dinner on deck.  Bit of a disappointing day for photographs though, as the best scenery was coming into view as we approached Bella Coola, towards nightfall. We did spot some dolphins and humpback whales in the afternoon, but there was no way I could capture anything half decent with my puny camera.

Fjord scenery

Overboard!

The sunset was spectacular though, so I braved the freezing wind to take these from the heaving upper deck...