British Columbia — Haida Gwaii
A 90-mile archipelago in the Pacific Ocean west of Prince Rupert, separated from the mainland by Hecate Strait — a famously shallow, short-period sea that demands respect on the crossing. Haida Gwaii is the ancestral homeland of the Haida Nation; the southern half is Gwaii Haanas National Park Reserve and Haida Heritage Site, jointly managed and home to UNESCO-listed village sites and totem poles slowly returning to the forest. This is the most committed cruising in this taxonomy. The boats that make it usually plan for years.
