Salt Spring Guided Sightseeing Tours
The Salt Spring Adventure Company offers guided tours of some of Salt Spring Island's finest attractions. All tours include cultural, ecological and commercial components, and allow you to taste, touch, smell and see the best of Salt Spring Island. Our knowledgeable guide and driver will transport you from site to site in our 11 passenger propane powered eco-bus. Tours also include coffee or tea and a light lunch (bagels, cream cheese, smoked salmon, and fresh fruit).
3 Hour Sightseeing Tour: $250
Customized Sightseeing Tours
Want a private tour of Salt Spring? Our 11 passenger eco-van and guide can be hired for the day! Have your choice of a wide range of destinations and convenient pick-up and drop-off at any location or accommodation on Salt Spring Island.
$400 for 1 - 5 PEOPLE, $50 PER ADDITIONAL PERSON
Destinations
The Saturday Market
One of Canada's premiere artisan markets, the Saturday Market showcases the incredible variety of Salt Spring Island talent, from fresh organic produce to intricate pottery and woodwork. This is a cultural attraction not to be missed!
Salt Spring Vineyards
Tastings at Salt Spring Vineyard are a delight under the summer sun. Try their 2005/06 Pinos Gris, Pinot Blanc, Millotage, and the famous Blackberry Port all locally grown and produced in the Fulford Valley.
Sacred Mountain Lavender
Explore the farm shop, offering a wide variety of lavender plants and spa and culinary products hand crafted at the farm. Inhale the aroma of the farm distilled essential oils.
Salt Spring Island Cheese
This company's handmade goat and sheep cheeses have become famous around North America. Our van will take you to their courtyard for free tastings and self-guided tours.
Salt Spring Island Bread Company
"The Bread Lady" craft is organic artisan bread baked in a wood-fired oven. A must stop on the island tour, you will find it almost impossible to leave without a fresh loaf to take home with you.
Morgain Cuddy - Wood Turner
We will visit Morgain's home studio to view his unique works of functional and decorative bowls turned from local woods: arbutus, maple, Garry oak, Pacific yew, red and yellow cedars, red alder, and Rocky Mountain juniper.
Ruckle Provincial Park
Settled by the Ruckle Family in 1872, Ruckle Park is one of BC's oldest continuously run family farms. It has within its borders seven kilometers of shoreline, coves, rocky headlands, and a beautiful example of a Coastal Douglas Fir ecosystem. Your guide/naturalist will lead you on a light walk through the park, where regular sightings of eagles, myriad bird-life, seals, river otters, and occasionally Orca whales are common. Low tides also reveal an incredible amount of inter-tidal sealife.
Mount Maxwell Provincial Park
We will drive up to Salt Spring Island's highest point, Mount Maxwell Provincial Park. Various walking trails are available in the park site, through some of the island's last stands of old-growth Douglas Fir, Garry Oak meadows and wetland environments. Don't forget your camera, as Mount Maxwell offers fantastic views of the Fulford Valley and Vancouver Island.