About - Coastal Current Adventures

About Us

30+ Years of Exceptional Eclectic Island Adventures on B.C.’s Spectacular West Coast!

Coastal Current Adventures is a business with a focus primarily on eco-tourism and environmental education.

It first started as Island Escapades, an outdoor tour booking company on Salt Spring Island in 1990. By the following summer, the business had expanded to include a small fleet of kayaks to facilitate their own tours and lessons. Youth camps, environmental education programs for schools and groups, kayak guides courses and camping expeditions, followed shortly thereafter.

In 2002, this home based business expanded to an oceanfront property in Ganges, the main hub of the island.
A clothing & gear shop and vacation rental were soon added to the mix.
Island Escapades became a year round diverse enterprise with several employees, including their two sons, Jade and Jasper.

Coastal Current Adventures was incorporated in 2018 after Island Escapades was sold but retained the rights to the camps, instructional and overnight programs.
The business has come full circle and is once again home based, directed towards environmental education, kayak certification and small group wilderness adventures.

2024 - Coastal Current Adventures was purchased by son Jasper and his partner Carissa!
They will be facilitating all of the programs now and will be expanding to more areas of Vancouver island.

Coastal Current Adventures has a heartfelt mandate—to adventure but tread lightly; to create opportunities for others to learn about and be captivated by nature. We protect what we love and it is imperative that we contribute to a more sustainable future for the earth and all of its inhabitants.

Jasper Snow-Rosen

SKGABC Level 3 Guide and Guide Trainer.

Jasper has grown up with his family fully immersed in an outdoor adventure business and absorbed so much through osmosis. Throughout his youth, he attended countless wilderness youth camps which ignited a passion for outdoor adventuring. Since then, he has paddled all of Vancouver Island and in 2018, co-led with his father, Jack Rosen, a 2500 nautical mile expedition to Nome, Alaska.

Jasper has travelled extensively throughout Central America and British Columbia and has become an accomplished surfer, keen fisherman, backcountry snowboarder and documentary filmmaker.

Apart from his incredible outdoor skills, Jasper is an amazing artist, songwriter and musician. He has co-created 3 films that profile the First Nations’ ongoing struggle to protect their lands and the dire consequences of the fossil fuel industry on communities and the environment. He walks the talk; drives a veggie oil powered truck, rides his bike to work and treads lightly on the earth!!

With his education, work history, and passion for outdoor adventures, Jasper is a stellar guide and camp counsellor extraordinaire!! If you are stranded in the outdoors you would be most fortunate to be with Jasper.

Jack Rosen

Level 3 Kayak Guide & Trainer/Examiner for SKGABC Guide Certification Courses.

Jack has worked as an outdoor guide since 1988; he is known in the industry as a bit of a pioneer in the BC kayak industry and is on the board of the SKGABC.

Together with the vast knowledge that he holds and his caring, lively and engaging personality, he really does have what it takes to be an outstanding guide! He has a deep passion for environmental education and outdoor adventuring. His guiding journeys have taken him to Haida Gwaii, Patagonia, Alaska, Costa Rica and the full coastline of BC and Vancouver Island.

Jack is co-owner, with his wife Candace, of Coastal Current Adventures and before that, Island Escapades. He is an accomplished instructor in the field of kayak guiding and incredibly well versed about the local coastal environment. Jack continues to enhance the offerings of the company including the development of the Guide Training Online Campus.

Donetta Cooper

SKGABC Guide Trainer & Level 3 Guide; Former Executive Director of the SKGABC

Donetta is a top notch educator, youth and family counselor and accomplished guide trainer. She has done a great deal to upgrade professionalism in the sea kayak Industry. Combined with her two Masters degrees, Donetta may be the most educated kayak guide in BC!

Donetta began her journey with us as a teen attending one of our Youth Leadership Programs. She has since immersed herself in experiential education and has worked multiple camps and outdoor adventure programs with us. We are extremely fortunate to have her guiding in 2021, assisting with our AOG courses and Expedition Training.

Cassidy Sica

SKGABC Level 3 Guide; Guide Trainer

Cass has worked for Coastal Current Adventures and before that, Island Escapades, for 6 years. His energy for life, kayaking and outdoor adventuring is inspiring!! Combined with his enthusiasm and skill set, when Cass is teaching and leading, he has everyone stoked and fully engaged.

Cass is one of our greatly valued Camp Counsellors and Environmental Educators. He is now a full time teacher in our local school district and has had years of experience leading kayak expeditions throughout BC’s West Coast.

Daniel Finer

SKGABC Level 3 Guide

Daniel has been with Island Escapades and Coastal Current Adventures since he was knee high to a grasshopper. He went through the ranks of all our youth camps and later, completed our Level 1 guides course. Following this he worked as a kayak day guide and eventually made the transformation to overnight programs facilitating excursions for Cadets and School Groups.

Daniel has a more recent history of working in the Johnstone Strait and has guided/paddled in most areas of Vancouver Island. He has a depth of knowledge on marine mammals specializing in Orcas, sea lions and porpoise. Daniel’s enthusiasm and coastal paddling knowledge are highly valued and we so appreciate when he is part of our team.