Homalco Wildlife Tours is expanding from its popular ‘Bears of Bute’ excursions in late summer to a spring and summer program.

“We are expanding our very successful wildlife tours into the summer focusing on cultural tours” said Shawn O’Connor, the tours manager. The new journeys to the ancestral lands of the Homalco people will include singing, drumming and dancing, celebrating culture and traditions.

The new tours will make use of the information centre near the bear viewing towers on ther Orford River in Bute Inlet.

Official launch will take place this June and the cultural tours will run until the bear season begins in August. Training for staff starts in mid-April.

O’Conner said that pride and honour is evident in the trained guides through previous training thanks to customer service experts at London Drugs. That company operates the nearby resort on Sonora Island whose clients are regular visitors to bears of Bute.