to expand on 999s Prince Rupert info.... it's the wettest place in Canada.. there's a ferry that runs back and forth to Port Hardy near the North end of Vancouver Island.... I took the Queen of the North a couple of times on that inside passage trip ( about 22 hrs.) about a year before it sank... something about the pilot making out with his girlfriend on the bridge and hitting a rock.... if you get that far, there's a short ferry ride (80 miles) from P.Rupert to Skidegate on Haida Gwaii, formerly known as the Queen Charlotte Islands... it's a very mystical place well off the beaten track esp. from Sept. to springtime when there aren't many tourists.... the average population is about 5000 for the whole place... from tow hill,at the north end, and agate beach near Old Masset you can see some of the Alaskan Islands, but maybe not Sarah Palin... it's the most westerly point in Canada that you can get to by road and ferry.. well out in the Pacific with the tremendous energy of the ocean pounding in from the Orient.... highly recommended..