Deep Wilderness Luxury on Canada’s West Coast

In Blackfish Sound, just off Vancouver Island, we find the whales—incredibly, some 50 of them, surrounding us.

The nine cabins at Nimmo Bay Wilderness Resort are often booked well in advance. Courtesy of Nimmo Bay Wilderness Resort

NIMMO BAY, British Columbia—Like the revelation of a mystery, the fog lifts once we roll away from Sullivan Bay.

Having boarded a Cessna Caravan Amphibian in Victoria, we lifted off, leaving the city behind, winging high over dense temperate rainforests, skirting coastal mountains, finally banking inland, flying through a broad valley, relaxed in the luxury of our own private ride.