Pros
Free accommodations (in a dorm with 7 other people). Free food (but don't eat the appetizers they catch them in the same inlet where they pipe the sewage out to). Great views, beautiful inlet. Kayaking, swimming if you're game. Getting to see grizzly bears. But the management severely restricts going on tours once the season gets busier. So get them in when you can because getting off the floating lodge is so good for your sanity when you're trapped on it 24/14. Some of the staff are really down to earth intelligent people, there to work.
Cons
Some of my reasons for resigning from this floating lodge that offers bear and whale watching tours include a hostile work environment of bullying from male guides, excessive staff alcohol use every night, loud dirty females in the dorm accommodations, and increasingly chaotic work/living environment. There are a number of eco-tourism things I was asked to say to guests that aren't true about the operations of the lodge. There are things I was told in the job interview about the lodge that I saw weren't true! Like the food waste that washes back into the cove or the bed bugs. So none of this surprises me, it just hurts my feelings to see how I'm referred to and treated. Especially considering how much evidence I have of my contributions to the lodge in both of the positions I performed (and appreciation of said effort as well). Every week I flew into the lodge a manager would undermine the changes of the other. My coworkers didn't work well together because of petty personal politics, although I was able to work well with both of them. And even that caused a problem. I got silent treatment for 2 days because of it. The unprofessional atmosphere and blatant disrespect (guides calling the higher ups an expletive "idiot" without reprimand) made it unlikely anyone cared or could control the increasingly toxic environment. Despite the disrespect, I read Moby Dck, and by mid-July it was to the point finding a quiet place to read was not even possible. After leaving my position the GM told other people that I "wasn't a credible person" and had been "fired". The company has yet to provide my ROE and it will be interesting to see what they put on it... Also claimed something to the effect of me lying about previous work experience, something they vetted before I was hired. This is slander and libel and something the employment standards branch has been made aware of because of the malicious effects of these actions. I would highly suggest looking at the negative Google reviews of the lodge to see evidence of a clear consistent pattern of their dishonesty to guests.