Grant Thompson and Chelsea Berry, both British Columbia natives, have been guiding together in the Queen Charlottes for seven years. Chelsea is an avid paddler, climber and world traveler. She is a student at the Canadian Memorial Chiropractic College in Toronto, teaches yoga and is perhaps the only kayak guide that is able to speak Mandarin Chinese. Grant is the founder of Tofino Expeditions and has been kayaking since 1979. An outdoor photographer whose work has appeared in National Geographic he first sailed around the Queen Charlottes in 1975 and has been kayak guiding in the Islands for nineteen years. As well as being a kayaker, surfer and accomplished chef he has a passionate interest in the archeology of coastal British Columbia.