{"id":101092,"date":"2022-06-17T12:56:41","date_gmt":"2022-06-17T16:56:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=101092"},"modified":"2022-06-17T12:56:41","modified_gmt":"2022-06-17T16:56:41","slug":"cortes-kayaks-family-business-enters-busy-summer-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/cortes-kayaks-family-business-enters-busy-summer-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Cortes Kayaks: Family business enters busy summer season"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kai Harvey grew up on rural Cortes Island and comes from an entrepreneurial family. She's committed to the island and wanted to find a way to stay, rather than needing to leave the island to find work, as many young adults do. She's spent lots of time exploring local waters and worked as a kayaking guide with local company Misty Isles Adventures.<\/p>\n

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Kai Harvey demonstrates her kayaking skills. Image courtesy of Kai Harvey.<\/p><\/div>\n

When the business came up for sale, she dreamed of operating her own kayaking tours company. She took the leap in 2018 and proposed that Misty Isles Adventures<\/a> divide into two entities: one focused on sailing adventures, the other on kayaking tours<\/a>. The previous owners were intrigued by the notion and agreed to the sale proposal.<\/p>\n

Now into its fourth season, Cortes Kayaks<\/a> has a busy summer ahead. Harvey says a unique aspect of her business is that she employs her two siblings, adding that there are unique benefits to operating a family business.<\/p>\n

CKTZ News finds out more in the interview below:<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Kai Harvey grew up on rural Cortes Island and comes from an entrepreneurial family. She’s committed to the island and wanted to find a way to stay, rather than needing to leave the island to find work, as many young adults do. She’s spent lots of time exploring local waters and worked as a kayaking…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":127,"featured_media":101100,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[217,57,222],"tags":[314,15715,13610,15714,15717,15716],"radio":[252],"origine":[280,266,231],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101092"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/127"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101092"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101092\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101133,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101092\/revisions\/101133"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101092"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=101092"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=101092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}