Northern Vancouver Island for The Globe and Mail

Written by Ian Harland

I travelled to northern Vancouver Island with writer Aruna Dutt for The Globe and Mail. On our trip with Karibu Adventures, we visited Kwakwaka’wakw carver Calvin Hunt in his workshop, spent time in Alert Bay and paddled Johnstone Strait from a camp on Hanson Island.

Kwakwaka’wakw carver Calvin Hunt dips a brush into red paint beside a carved and painted pole in his workshop.
Calvin Hunt in his workshop.
Visitors walk past the colourful Culture Shock mural in Alert Bay.
Alert Bay.
Aerial view of narrow tidal channels winding between forested islands off northern Vancouver Island.
The islands from above.
Five sea kayakers paddle toward forested islands in Johnstone Strait, with a band of low cloud behind them.
Aruna Dutt holds a spiny sea urchin in her palm as the paddler beside her steadies her yellow kayak.
Sea lions surface in front of a group of sea kayakers off northern Vancouver Island.
A canvas tent glows beside a stack of cut logs in the forest on Hanson Island at dusk.
Camp on Hanson Island with Kingfisher Wilderness Adventures.

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