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Nu-Salya
Bed & Breakfast Chalet
Canada
Select 5 Stars
Highest
B&B rating in the Whistler - Squamish - West
Vancouver region.
World Class Luxury B&B at a world class year-round
destination
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SQUAMISH
- WHISTLER
Outdoor
Recreational Capital of Canada
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Escape
from the crowds for dream adventures and places of wonder to
Nu-Salya Chalet at our
upper Garibaldi Highlands cul-de-sac location, just 35 minutes
south of Whistler Creekside Gondola,
offering quiet serenity and dramatic Ocean Fjord and
Towering craggy snow capped mountain views.
Our spectacular coastal community offers unparalleled natural
beauty and perhaps the world's greatest
diversity of world-class natural outdoor recreation
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FLOATING THROUGH THE DENSEST CLUSTER OF BALD EAGLES ON EARTH
- also Black Bears, Coyote, Deer and other birds
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Cheakamus Float Trip
1-877-806-8046
$89.00 - 119CDN per person -
Nusalya guests will receive a $10.00 discount
If the adrenaline rush of white water isn't what you're looking for, we also offer a float raft trip down the spectacular Cheakamus River which boasts stunning views of the Tantalus Mountain Range and Mount Garibaldi. Wildlife, including deer, black bear, coyote and abundant waterfowl including
bald eagles, is often seen during this trip. It's a perfect family
outing with a few bumps to wet your face but not enough to lose your hat. The trip also includes a delectable gourmet barbecue
lunch.
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HERE for Squamish Birding Check-list
ã www.PhotosCanada.com
Sun Wolf Outdoor
Centre offers a river float trip from November through February. The raft is an ideal vehicle of discovery for
eagle-watching. Floating quietly past, the eagles are not disturbed. Walk on the bank, and they'd all fly away. Participants in a rafting trip need to keep warm and dry to enjoy the eagles. That means rubber boots, rubber gloves, warm clothes, and an all-body rain
suit. Around every bend in the river stands another perch tree with perhaps a dozen eagles on it. The eagles
use Douglas fir, western red cedar, hemlock, and cottonwood for their perches. The mature adults, after about five years, attain the characteristic white head and tail. Mature birds boast a wing span of six feet. The immature birds are mottled brown and appear even larger than their parents.
There are also other birds to enjoy in this Squamish Valley below the
emerald green forests and 8000-foot glacier-capped Tantalus Mountains; dippers,
goldeneye and merganser ducks, and white trumpeter swans.
The float trip starts on the Cheakamus River and
includes a section of the Squamish River, along the Paradise Road Ecological Reserve of old-growth trees.
The chum salmon run begins here each September. The eagles are present from November through March, but are most abundant in January. Thousands of salmon carcasses
are present in the water and on the banks in January. The pullout puts
you near Thor Frosley's Brackendale Cafe and Art Gallery, where one can
enjoy the hot fireplace, some hearty soup, and good talk with Thor, inspirer of the Brackendale Winter Eagle Festival.
2000 marks the 14th annual festival. The festival also has an eagle art show, an eagle photography workshop, and a shindig of a party. Rafting is a popular soft adventure in many locations,"
says Thor. "But if you want to see the largest concentration of bald eagles on Earth, you'd better come to see us at Brackendale."
BALD EAGLE COUNTS
| 1986 / 537 |
1987 / 952 |
1988 / 2500 |
1989 / 1560 |
1990 / 737 |
| 1991 / 875 |
1992 / 1675 |
1993 / 1574 |
1994 / 3769 |
1995 / 2597 |
| 1996 / 1859 |
1997 / 1319 |
1998 / 1352 |
1999 / 1847 |
2000/2607 |
Sunwolf Rafting:
1-877-806-8046
Eagle Float Tour December 2002
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Credit: www.photoscanada.com
Let your spirit soar with our eagles, Dream Adventures
and Places of Wonder await you in this Dramatic Land.... we hope you are
left with magical lifetime memories.
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