Owned and operated by the Haida, Ocean House is arguably one of Canada's best kept secrets, offering unprecedented access to the country's incredible wildlife
In the far north of Canada’s west coast, 62 miles (99 km) from the mainland, there is a chain of tiny islands almost no one knows. Referred to as the ‘Galapagos of the North’ for its high levels of endemism and the sheer abundance of life that exists here, the Haida Gwaii archipelago rises from the sea like a lost world.
Enormous forests of Sitka Spruce and Cedar, blanketed in thick moss, tower hundreds of feet above the shore; bald eagles fill the sky; there are black bears, porpoises, sea lions, orcas and more than one million nesting sea birds. Home to the indigenous Haida people for at least the last 12,500 years, they’ve been keeping it a secret but, perhaps, not for much longer.
A sacred space
A new luxury eco-lodge has just opened on a remote inlet of the island's rugged Pacific coast, accessible only by helicopter or boat and surrounded on all sides by towering fjords, waterfalls and lush mountain forests. It’s like arriving at an ocean fairy tale: a luxury barge, floating in a sheltered bay, surrounded by mist and a golden tideline on all sides.
Owned and operated exclusively by the Haida people themselves, Ocean House, as it’s known, promises to be one of the world’s most unique new luxury wilderness experiences: culture and adventure at the ends of the Earth.
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