the archipelago · the coast
Hand-crafted float-houses and shoreline cabins, tied to a wilderness inlet where bears feed on the shore at breakfast and killer whales pass the mouth of the bay. Reached only by boat or float plane.
Live availability
Four cabins, each with its own calendar. Choose your dates and the price is worked out in front of you — nights, guests, tax and the boat out, before you commit to anything.
What comes past
Their own words, and the reason people come. the archipelago sits at the top of the strait — among the most reliable killer whale water anywhere on this coast — and the bears work the shoreline at low tide, a few hundred metres from the deck.
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“Watch bears eat their breakfast of shellfish from the inter tidal zone.” They work the low tide along the same shorelines you paddle.
Northern residents move through the strait and the archipelago through the summer. Humpbacks, Pacific white-sided dolphins and sea lions are regular company.
“Explore secluded shorelines by kayak, charter-boat or on foot, alone or in the company of your hosts.” Guided tours and family kayaking holidays both run.
“Observe the natural light of morning and sunset, and wide expansive starlit sky that is only possible far from urban centers.”
“Even if the days you choose turn out to demonstrate the rain that nourishes and defines this region — a nice hot shower, sauna, and a cozy bed at days end.”
Harbour Inn holds a Gold rating from a sustainable-tourism programme for reducing its impact and supporting others to do the same.
Where you sleep
“All of our accommodations offer you a cozy clean home away from home within a doorstep of nature.” Four hand-crafted rooms, a hot shower and a sauna at the end of the day.
The main house, floating on the inlet. You step out of bed onto a deck that moves with the tide.
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A cabin of your own on the float, a few steps from the lodge and the sauna.
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Two cabins ashore — one at the tide line, one on the bluff above the bay.
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Have a look
Every image on this page came off the current Harbour Inn website. Nothing has been added or staged — they have simply been sized properly and given descriptions.
The land and the water
Harbour Inn is located within the unceded territory of the Kwikwasut’inuxw Haxwa’mis First Nation.
Your current site reads “unceeded”; the word is unceded, and it is worth getting right because it is a legal description, not a turn of phrase. Your page also renders the Nation as “Hawa’mis”, where the usual spelling is “Haxwa’mis”. Both are small fixes and both are the kind of thing worth confirming directly with the Nation rather than taking from me.
Getting here
That is the point, and it is also the first question every guest asks. Answering it on the page saves you the email.
Departure point, sailing times, transfer cost per person and which float plane operators you work with. It is the question guests ask before anything else, and every one of those emails is one you would not have to answer.
Contact
Every booking here is confirmed personally — that is a feature of a wilderness lodge, not a shortcoming. The calendar just means the conversation starts with the dates already settled.