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Observe our unique Vancouver Island Black Bear in their natural habitat while drifting down a river in one of our drift boats. Our black bears don’t hibernate because of the mild climate here so we have an extended bear watching season. 

  











Over 12,000 black bears inhabit Vancouver Island.

  

















  

Black Bears are the most common bears in North America. Though they all belong to the same species Ursus americanus, several subspecies are now recognized including the Vancouver Island Black Bear, or Ursus americanus vancouveri. 


Black Bears are omnivorous. They eat berries, fruits, nuts, flowers, leaves, roots, and other vegetation as well as insects and small mammals. 



These bears have it relatively easy here on our island with an extra chance to fatten up when the salmon head up the rivers to spawn in late summer through fall.