King Pacific pitches itself as a "wilderness experience, " and unlike the testosterone-radiating, hard-core fishing lodges here in northern B.
The lodge actually floats: Built from cedar, fir, pine and stone on a barge, King Pacific is only open June through September.
Accessible via privately chartered plane from Vancouver to Bella Bella with a transfer to float planes for the final leg, King Pacific Lodge is in the middle of British Columbia's Great Bear Rainforest.
The journey to three of British Columbia's most renowned wilderness fishing and adventure lodges--King Pacific Lodge, Sonora Resort, and Clayoquot Wilderness Resort--begins, almost inevi-tably, with an air connection out of YVR, Vancouver International Airport.
King Pacific Lodge, a floating luxury lodge in a remote coastal section of British Columbia, Canada, received a Global Vision Award for establishing protection for the 21 million-acre Great Bear Rainforest, which surrounds the property.
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Several hours and a change of planes north of YVR, the gnomelike Swiss pilot flying the Grumman Goose to King Pacific Lodge is holding forth about Sasquatch (he's seen one from the plane) and spirit bears and avalanches.
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This is the world's largest crustacean and the seven king crabs introduced here from the North Pacific by Russian scientists in 1961 have multiplied at an astonishing rate.
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