This high-definition short movie encompasses what is at stake in British Columbia when it comes to the proposed Enbridge oil pipeline and the supertankers that would carry this oil through our coastal water. Please take 45 minutes out of your day to watch this important video and support the ban on oil tankers and the pipeline in BC.

SPOIL from EP Films on Vimeo.

Summer isn’t the only productive time to fish for salmon in and around Vancouver, BC. During the winter months, ‘feeder’ chinook salmon are prevalent all along the coast and we’ve had some great days in the water early in 2011. These fish are usually in the 6-15 lb range and are generally caught close to bottom while trolling with spoons, hoochies or anchovies.

Winter salmon fishing in Vancouver is a completely different experience than Summer fishing as we often have the best fishing spots all to ourselves and don’t have to deal with dozens of other boats around. It can be brisk at times, but on nice calm winter days we’ve had some of our best days of fishing, regardless of the time of year. Prawning and crabbing can also be much better during the winter months as competition is less fierce (commercial and recreational) and the colder water seems to produce ultra fresh seafood!

This weekend’s trip will have us fishing in the Southern Gulf Islands, including Gabriola, Valdes and Galiano. I will report back after the trip with an update and pictures of the bounty. We’ll be staying at a private cabin for the weekend and making day trips to our favourite fishing spots each day. If you are interested in booking a Vancouver fishing charter with Exposure Travel please Contact Us today!

“This might be the coolest thing you see… ever.” – says the Huffington Post Interactive 360 Video taken from a helicopter! Fly in a helicopter over a one-of-a-kind BC resort and a 150 mile track of the Beautiful British Columbia coastal mainland. You control the camera with your mouse, click and drag in any direction…

It’s one of the last bastions of Canadian wilderness: the Great Bear Rainforest, on BC’s north and central Pacific coast. Home to diverse marine mammals, fish, and wildlife – from Orca and humpback whales to wild salmon, wolves, grizzlies, and the legendary spirit bear – this spectacular place is now threatened by a proposal from Enbridge to bring an oil pipeline and supertankers to this fragile and rugged coast.

Oil in Eden: The Battle to Protect Canada’s Pacific Coast from Pacific Wild on Vimeo.

Exposure Travel is dedicated to helping to keep B.C.’s pristine coastline in tact for centuries to come. If you would like to visit the Great Bear Rainforest to see first hand the environment at risk contact us to get your start planning your trip.

Just in time for the 1-year anniversary of the 2010 Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver, BC. Below is the award winning video essay by Stephen Brunt showing how these Game captivated a nation and made a the most memorable 17 days of many of our lives.

Hoping all of you, like all of us at Exposure, take the time to relive your memories of the 2010 Olympics in Vancouver and Whistler.

Exposure Travel is please that our newly revamped website is now up and running. If you have been a long-time follower of ours you’ll notice that there are several improvements to the site, including:

1) Special signature trips for each of our three major market segments: Family Trips, Corporate Trips and Bachelor Trips.

2) A new and improved navigation to make your visits to www.exposure.travel even more efficient and informative

3) An updated News/Blog section with room for your comments and suggestions on each posting

4) Updated social media sharing tools so that when you see something on our website that your friends may find relevant you can easily share it with them

5) A new section containing our adventure travel videos of past trips. It’s tough to explain everything that makes an Exposure trip so special but hopefully these videos help out

We hope you like the changes we have made as they were influenced by the feedback and comments we received from you, our visitors and fans. We want to continue to hear from you going forward to feel free to comment on our postings and/or join our facebook and twitter accounts here:

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Twitter: http://twitter.com/Exposure_Travel

Thanks for all of your support and we hope to see you on a trip soon!

The climactic finish of the “Get Out Migration” for wild salmon – in Victoria, where 5,000 turned out to the the lawn of the provincial Legislature to tell governments to get open net salmon farms out of BC’s waters. Featuring powerful speeches from salmon biologist Alexandra Morton – who led the Migration down Vancouver Island – former BC Environment Minister Rafe Mair, Grand Chief Stewart Phillip, Order of Canada recipient Vicky Husband, aboriginal drums, music, colourful costumes and thousands of citizens committed to saving wild salmon…Everything the mainstream media didn’t show you about one of the largest and most powerful public demonstrations of its kind in BC history.

2010 is the year of Travel Refueling at Exposure Travel and we’ll be bringing you different Fuels’ to motivate and inspire your family to explore the not-so-everyday places in and around British Columbia. We create one-of-a-kind family vacations that maximize togetherness and unique experiences. Escape the daily grind and see how beautiful and serene nature can be when witnessed in its purest form. They say that families that play together stay together, and were always happy to provide the perfect playground.  Play the video to see what travelling en famille with Exposure is all about.

So what’s all this talk about social media? Is it really here to stay? Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Google Buzz and the list goes on… and on… and on. How am I supposed to keep up on it all?

Well, here at Exposure Travel we don’t have the answer. But, we can tell you from experience that the benefits of social media, while perhaps difficult to measure, are real and are substantial!

While there are countless social media platforms on which to spend countless hours each day, Exposure has chosen to focus most of our efforts on “The Big 3″ – at least these are “The Big 3″ for the moment. Check back next week in case things change.

Facebook – Exposure’s official Facebook fan page

Twitter – Exposure’s official Twitter account

YouTube – Exposure’s YouTube Channel with recent videos of trips

With hundreds of millions of users, each of these powerful social networking tools can be invaluable to business’s and consumer alike. If you are considering adventure travel in British Columbia any time soon you’d be amazed how easy you can find real time information on BC’s best adventure travel guides and locations. The easiest and often most effective way is to simply post in your social media account asking for advice or recommendations and wait (often only a few minutes) for eager users to disseminate their 2 cents. Of course not all of the feedback you receive will be golden but more often than not you’ll be surprised by just how many people care to share their experiences.

If you’re not yet using social media why not jump in head first now? It won’t be going away any time soon and it could very well open up some new doors for you. What have you got to lose? Besides countless hours of your time of course.

New spring/summer campaign rides the wave of post-Olympic Canadian exposure.

The 2010 Winter Games embedded countless fresh images of Canada in minds around the world. Apart from the pure emotion and delight it brought millions, people saw the myriad different experiences this country has to offer.

Reflecting those good vibes, the newly minted campaign by the Canadian Tourism Commission (CTC) for the Mexico market is designed to put a spring (and quite a bit of summer, too) in Mexican travellers’ steps. Running for three months, it draws inspiration from travellers’ own shared experiences, photos and blogs to bring it to life.

It kicked off with a series of short and fun user-generated TV ads on MundoFox, Discovery Channel, Sony Entertainment Television, TNT América Latina and National Geographic Channel. These are being backed up by online and print advertising in titles including Reforma, El Universal and Excelsior (Mexico City); Mural and El Informador (Guadalajara); and El Norte (Monterrey). There will also be advertising in Mexican travel and women’s magazines.

Travel Alberta and the Ontario Tourism Marketing Partnership Corporation (OTMPC) are CTC partners for the campaign.

“This campaign both reinforces our commitment to Mexican travellers and will help create sales backed by the exposure Canada received from the 2010 Winter Games,” says Siobhan Chretien, CTC executive director, Americas.