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If your idea of paradise rests at the nexus of wildlife and wonder, welcome aboard the MV Aurora Explorer, a working freight vessel cruising British Columbia’s Inside Passage. Owned by Marine Link Tours in Campbell River on the east side of Vancouver Island the 135-foot landing craft runs remote marine channels to service isolated fishing,…

Reprinted with permission: “Inside Passage journey not your average cruise trip”, by Yvette Cardozo and Bill Hirsch, Calgary Herald; Saturday, July 31, 2004 Inside Passage journey not your average cruise trip Freighter voyage mixes work and pleasure Yvette Cardozo and Bill Hirsch For the Calgary Herald; CanWest News Service Saturday, July 31, 2004 Midnight and…

When not logging, trapping, or fishing, Proctor explores the inlets and abandoned camps and villages along the Broughton Archipelago by Anne Ikeda On a recent voyage on board the MV Aurora Explorer, we had the unscheduled pleasure of meeting B.C. Mainland Islands’ best-known citizen, Billy Proctor. I rather naively thought it would be nice for…

“We have three different trips we do on this ship,” says Captain Phillipe Menetrier, easing back the throttle at the bridge of the MV Aurora Explor – er . “This is the Discovery Islands trip we are on. We also go north as far as Kingcome Inlet and then we have something we call a…

Working ship takes 12 passengers to magical places August 10, 2011| By Pat Brennan, Special to Tribune Newspapers Delivering a 50-ton bulldozer to a lumber camp in northern British Columbia was the best vacation trip Mary Stiles ever took. No roads lead to the lumber camp, so the bulldozer was delivered by landing craft similar…

“Humpback on the starboard side,” shouts First Mate Kevin, sticking his head down the companionway from the bridge of the motor vessel Aurora Explorer. I grab my camera and leap up from the lunch table. In half-a-dozen steps, I’m through the back door of the main cabin and poised for a shot just as the…

While most of us are snug in bed on land in the dark of night, know that if the tide is right, somewhere along B.C.’s convoluted coastline of bays, coves, inlets and islands, in some remote logging camp, fish farm, First Nations village or rare homestead outpost, the shallow- draught Aurora Explorer is “pushing the…

Aurora Explorer is a working freight vessel. The freight deck where I and 10 other passengers met captain and crew was already loaded with a well-organized collection of heavy cargo. Crew members escorted us to our cabins on the second deck to settle in while they resumed their duties to get us underway. After a…