Cruise Port Guide
The bucket-list things to do — and the private, expert-led way to do each.
Here’s the bucket list for your day ashore: the most extraordinary thing to do at each stop, and the private, small-group, or expert-led way to make it yours — your own pace, real access, none of the crowd.
Step ashore on one of the world's most pristine and remote UNESCO World Heritage sites — Anticosti Island — where Devonian fossil reefs line dramatic limestone canyons and white-tailed deer outnumber humans 25 to 1. A bucket-list encounter with raw, untouched Canada.
Glide through the Mingan Archipelago National Park Reserve aboard a private Zodiac, weaving between surreal limestone monoliths sculpted by millennia of sea and ice. The nesting colonies of Atlantic puffins and razorbills make this one of Canada's most spectacular wildlife backdrops.
Witness one of the natural wonders of the Americas — the colossal Percé Rock piercing the Gulf at dawn — then cross to Bonaventure Island, home to one of the world's most accessible Northern Gannet colonies: 110,000 birds in a riotous, awe-inspiring spectacle.
Cruise the dramatic, cliff-walled Saguenay Fjord — one of the southernmost fjords in the world — aboard a private charter vessel to encounter the resident population of endangered St. Lawrence Belugas and the fin, blue, and humpback whales that congregate at the confluence with the St. Lawrence.
Step into the living culture of the Innu people of Nitassinan — the vast homeland they have inhabited for over 8,000 years along the Gulf's north shore. A rare, guided encounter combining traditional knowledge, storytelling, artisan craft, and wild foods.
Land on the wild Labrador shore at Henley Harbour — a hauntingly beautiful cove littered with the ruins of 18th-century British fishing rooms — and hike a coastal trail to sweeping views of the Strait of Belle Isle, the narrow channel where Vikings and Basque whalers once passed.
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