This Schedule & availability was updated on April 5th, & can change quickly. Please call or email to confirm space on a trip for your shop or yourself!
"Group" trips (organized by shops) are looking for more divers to join the group, unless marked Full
HideAway" trips (organized by us) are definitely looking for more divers, unless marked Full
GROUPS & DIVE SHOPS, Please reserve your favorite times for 2010 & 2011
Summer, Fall & Spring 2011dates are open for Group Trips... Book yours Soon!
July: Orcas arrive to our area for their summer of chasing salmon!
Group Discounts begin with 4 people booking together! Please call us at (877) 725-2835 to find out more!.
Sept 7 to 10 HideAway trip Mon-Thurs 1 Space available Please call us (877) 725-2835 to reserve your space.
Sept 10 to 13 HideAway trip Thurs-Tues 3 Spaces available.
Sept 15 to 20 Group week trip Wed-Mon Trip Full. Please call us (877) 725-2835 to check on space.
Sept 20 to 26 Group week trip Mon-Sun 3 spaces available. Please call us (877) 725-2835 to check on space.
Sept 26 to 30 HideAway trip Su-Th 3 Spaces available. Call to confirm.
Sept 30 to Oct 3 HideAway trip Th-Sun Trip Full
Oct 3 to 7 Sun-Th 3 spaces available. Please call us (877) 725-2835 to check on space.
Oct 7 to 11 Group Thanksgiving Th-M Trip Full. Please call Deirdre at (604) 436-1157 to book.
Oct 11 to 16 M-Sa 5 spaces available -
Oct 17 to 23 Group week trip trip Su-Fr 6 spaces available Please call us at (877) 725-2835 to reserve your space.
Oct 23 to 26 Fr-M Open
Nov: We're here at the HideAway & available for trips until Nov 15, 2010
Vancouver & Whistler are hosting the Olympic Winter Games, Feb 12 through 28, 2010
and Olympic Winter Paralympic Games, March, 2010
GROUPS & DIVE SHOPS: Please reserve your favorite times for your 2010 & 2011 trips soon!..
Sample Per-PersonTrip Rates-
4 Days & 3 Nights Trips- includes up to 11 great dives!
July 1 to Oct 15, 2010 C$695* / US$675**
Oct 16, 2010 to Mar 30, 2011 & May 17 to June 30, 2011 C$645* / US$625**
Apr 1, 2011 to May 16, 2011 & July 1, 2011 to Oct 15, 2011 ..If you book for 2011 with deposit by July 15, 2010, you get 2010 rates!
++++++++ Plan your 2011 dive trips early and save! +++++++++
7 Days & 6 Nights Week-long Trips- includes up to 23 great dives! .....
July 1 to Oct 15, 2010 C$1295* / US$1250**
Oct 16 to Mar 30, 2011 C$1195* / US$1155**
*Please call or email for specific trip quotes.
*Rates vary with season, trip length, group size & exchange rate at time of booking. Current tax of 5% to be added. The BC Government has announced its intention to blend this tax with the 7 % provincial sales tax, making it 12% July 1, 2010. Prices subject to change until a trip is booked with a deposit *Shop Trip Rates will vary, as they often include paid instructors /trip leaders, smaller group size. demo equipment, logistics (vehicles, travel etc), deposit pre-payments, phone calls,and shop overhead...etc!
**US$ rates are given as an estimate based on the exchange rate at time of writing. Please call or email for specific trip quotes...
Browning Pass & Queen
Charlotte
Strait diving is not at all like diving in southern BC waters!
HideAway Cottages: The "HideAway" cottage, with its cozy woodstove; the "Bunkhouse" with its large comfy lounge and fireplace , and the "Trapper Cabin". These units make up the "HideAway Resort". The Resort can easily accommodate individuals, couples and small groups in the privacy of one of the cottages. Larger groups use multiple units.
For 28 years, we've offered great diving in one of BC's healthiest marine environments!
Dive enthusiasts, professional and amateur photographers, and marine naturalists continue to visit British Columbia and particularly the Port Hardy area because of the incredible diversity of marine life found here, and choose to come out with us because of our crew's knowledge of sites and marine life that we share with our guests. Our "crew" have hosted over 50 magazine writers & photographers who have produced international articles on this area, plus 15 film crews producing underwater documentaries which have been broadcast world-wide, and about 20 TV documentary crews, plus literally thousands of professional and amateur photographers have come with us to this area. Whale watchers in Queen Charlotte Strait and Johnstone Strait have the highest concentrations of easily accessible marine mammals on Earth to enjoy- right outside the front door!
HideAway's professional crew are fun, safe, experienced, and love to take people diving!
We will attend to your needs for good information on sites, and for the best tide and current info available. We find giant Pacific octopus, visit friendly wolfeels at their dens, and maybe interact with Pacific white-sided dolphins in the wild. Our staff's orca (killer whale) observations work has led to the discovery of orcas' travel patterns in areas not previously well known, giving you the opportunity to see and photograph these amazing mammals in pristine wilderness areas. Experienced divemasters will put you in the right spots at precisely calculated slack tides, so you can enjoy your dives at every site. Enjoy time with our crew between-dives, who are pretty knowledgeable on marine life, marine ecology, currents, tides, sasquatches and lots of other stuff. We love to recount stories about unusual behaviours of marine life, whales & dolphins, local history, our attemps at protecting Browning Pass and other coastal area from abuse, and, with permission, we might visit ancient First Nation sites, possibly with elders recounting their history!
Please select the button for further details about our various packages
Port Hardy, Browning Pass and Queen Charlotte Strait
Marine life in this area includes rare soft corals and sponges, several "friendly" wolf-eels, plus phenonemal concentrations of almost every other species of common and unusual vertebrate and invertebrate life found in B.C.'s temperate waters. We see dolphins regularly, during late summer and fall!
Visibility in March, April & from Sept.to Dec. is 50'-100' with water temperatures of 6C (43F) to 10C (50F), while from May to August visibility ranges from 20'-70', with water temperatures from 6C(45F) to 12C (54F). Late summer and fall Pacific White-sided dolphins come in in groups to several hundred, and well over 100 resident orcas call this area "home". Regular sightings of Dall's porpoise, harbour porpoise, Minke whales, Stellar sealions and harbour seals make this "marine mammal heaven"! Regular summer and fall sightings of Humpback and Grey whales, and hundreds of marine birds including eagles, puffins, auklets, shearwaters and dozens more species keep us busy looking between dives. Beach walks, forest hikes, old native villages and chains of untouched islands round our days out.
Some say it is the most beautiful diving and whale watching area in the world!
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Cottages: The "HideAway" cottage, with its cozy woodstove; the "Bunkhouse" with its large comfy lounge and fireplace , and the "Trapper Cabin". These units make up the "HideAway Resort". The Resort can easily accommodate individuals, couples and small groups in the privacy of one of the cottages. Larger groups use multiple units.
