Tide Rip Grizzly Tours

Tide Rip is amazing! Nate and Charlotte were excellent guides; friendly, funny and knowledgeable. We saw grizzlies, orcas, humpbacks, eagles and more. Lunch was a delicious bonus. This tour is well worth it and I would highly recommend it to anyone who likes wildlife and beautiful scenery.

This tour was fantastic! Our naturalist was educated, well-spoken and friendly. Our captain was professional, competent and friendly. We saw 3 grizzlies, a pod of 3 orcas (what a bonus!), and lots of sea lions and porpoises. Highly recommend, must-do excursion in an absolutely stunningly beautiful spot. The full day was money well spent.

We had a wonderful time. We watched a bloody fight between two male grizzly bears. We also saw two orcas and a humpback whale and two black bears.

Oh my goodness. Grizzlies. Whales.Eagles.Need I say more!?!?Vancouver Island is beautiful. And Telegraph Cove is completely charming.

Unfortunately we didn’t get to see any grizzlies however the trip was still great, luckily we saw a black bear swimming! Our guides John Luke and Ishabel were amazing and tried extra hard to find grizzly bears

Fun way to spend a day in Telegraph Cove. Will see whales too, if you’re lucky. Our guide Jackie was hilarious and very knowledgeable. Plenty of snacks, coffee/tea and a decent lunch is also provided.

I highly recommend this tour company! We had to make some changes due to bad weather at the end of the season, which they were very accommodating. We seen around a dozen grizzly bears in Knight Inlet as well as stopped and checked out a foraging black bear on the way. The tour guides, James and Mike were absolutely fabulous and not only went above and beyond, being super informative and down right awesome, they took us whale watching on the way back and we seen at least a dozen humpbacks! It was a trip of a life time and I couldn't be more impressed with this tour, especially since I'm not really a 'tour' kind of person. Thank you so much Tide Rip Grizzly for making this company trip one to remember!

Excellent adventure! We had 10 guests on our boat and enjoyed our guide. We saw 10 grizzlies, a black bear, dolphins and porpoises. The trip up to the cove was fantastic and we could not have asked for a better day.

Fantastic day! We saw it all! Humpbacks, orcas, sea lions, harbour seals, tons of sea birds, a black bear and of course grizzlies! Janeen and Nat were great hosts and naturalists who shared so much information about local wildlife, bears, the environmental and living in the area. Highly recommended.

I had a really wonderful special day taking this tour, but also had to alter my expectations once I realized better what to expect. The drive to Knight Inlet was just wonderful and the early morning lighting was fantastic. It does take two hours but I thoroughly enjoyed myself watching everything from the back of the boat and learning interesting things from the naturalist (although it's hard to hear if you end up in the back seats inside since the boat is quite loud - tip: Next time, I would bring earplugs to put in at times to reduce that noise over the course of the 8 hours because it was really a lot for that many hours). We were able to watch a mama black bear for a bit on the coast as she meandered around and that was really wonderful. What I didn't understand fully was that the area where they take you to see the grizzlies is a bay where you dock your ship, stop for an hour to eat your packed lunch and then get on river skiffs only to go on them for about five minutes as you cross a very short distance. Then you park near the sand and have one hour to view any bears that might be in that one area feeding. I had been under the impression the bear viewing was going to entail a longer time going up river on the skiffs instead of just parking them (again five minutes from where you dock the boat) and waiting for an hour in one spot. Once I reset my expectation about this aspect I enjoyed looking at the scenery and a beautiful bald eagle that was sitting in the mud close to us. We weren't lucky enough to have any bears that you could see with the naked eye (you could barely make out a mama/younger one way back using binoculars). Once we got back on the boat you could tell many of us were feeling a little discouraged but we did see some amazing marine life on the return trip back. A huge pod of very fast moving Pacific White-Sided dolphins, a small group slowly swimming, Orcas and a Humpback whale. Our captain and Naturalist tried really hard to find those and give us time to enjoy them which was wonderful. So overall if viewing this as a full day of marine life/scenery with perhaps a bear if you're lucky tour....it was a magical day. I think they might do better to market it more like that rather than focusing on the grizzly bears since this is one hour of the entire time and in such a limited way that you'd really have to be lucky to have them in that one area right during your hour of viewing time. They did offer us a no-bear certificate which we can use to come on another trip which was very nice and I appreciated it. I'm hoping to try again in the Spring when it sounds like they might be more active feeding on the sedge grass in that area and I will now know what to expect and approach it as only one little aspect of the day and what I might see.