Sea Otter Cove is a remote place near the north-western end of Vancouver Island which has been part of Cape Scott Provincial Park since 1973.
As is common on the west coast of Vancouver Island, there is a high annual rainfall.
Danish immigrants established settlements in the area in the early 20th century, but the environment and isolation proved to be insurmountable.
(A proposed road to connect Sea Otter Cove to the nearest communities was never built.)
According to Don Douglass, among boaters, Margaret Sharcott wrote this description of her 1954 visit to Sea Otter Cove: