About Coast Mountain Expeditions
Sea Kayaking Vancouver Island at Canada’s Original Kayaking Lodge and west coast British Columbia Kayak Camping Trips.

Life on our remote island homestead has given us experience, familiarity and respect for this place we call home. We offer sea kayaking experiences for people of all ages, abilities and interests. Sharing our remote island lifestyle and the natural beauty of our place at the edge of BC’s highest mountains is a real pleasure, and we hope that experiencing Canada’s west coast environment will remind and inspire everyone to lighten our footprints and help protect all of earth’s wild places.
The Food at Coast Mountain
Coast Mountain began like that. Lannie’s brother, Steve, was at loose ends and joined in on the adventure. He and Ralph spent the following two years log-salvaging and hand-milling timbers which became the beautifully functional Coast Mountain Lodge – where Lannie’s kitchen got the best view and her creativity produced deliciousness from garden and sea. Ralph developed sustainable living systems including small scale, renewable energy from water, wind and sun. This has greatly reduced our dependence on fossil fuel and we now operate two lodges 95% carbon free. We’re proud of our conservation, and glad to showcase and advocate low impact energy systems.
Since 1987 we’ve offered guided kayak tours in the beautiful wild that is everywhere out our back door. When large clearcuts and industrial logging invaded our island paradise, we defended the land and “environmental activism” reshaped our future. Another awakening was when our teenage son, Albert taught us about whitewater kayaking as he and other thrill-seeking friends pioneered paddling on the local tidal rapids. In 2000, we bought what is now Discovery Islands Lodge, near the play-place at Surge Narrows. It was a ramshackle coastal building that was an almost overwhelming project, but a few years of effort recreated a comfortable end-of-the-road B&B for kayakers and other travellers who want to stay a little further out!
Our daughter Emily now lives in Vancouver and works with the Environmental Youth Alliance. Albert is a Coast Mountain kayak guide and now the young part of this family business. We still live in our little self-built house, grow the garden, keep things fixed and run the trips that let people share our backyard. We love what we do – and we appreciate ever-so-much the incredible community of people we’ve met along our journey through time in the place we call home. We hope you’ll keep on coming!