In the Bahamas the natural beauty was mainly under water: the spectacular clarity of the water and the sea life. 
Staniel Cay Yacht Club- nurse sharks and coral, just feet away from the dock on the right side of the photo.
The objects that you needed to avoid also lie underwater: coral bommies and drifting sand. 
The path from the Exumas to Nassau, just one example, is littered with coral bommies in shallow cruising water- the dark patches in the above photo is coral.
The entrance to Bimini is tricky, for the novice, as the first red buoy is no longer where it should belong since the last hurricane- to the left of these two boats. You may see a change of color in the water parallel to the sandy beach to the left of these boats, that water is too shallow for us to transit.
Cruising the Inside Passage could not be more opposite. The above ground natural beauty is breathtaking. 
What a stunning view, to be cleaning a salmon looking up Phillips Arm in BC.
The downside to the beautifully forested mountains, is the debris that results floating in the water. From sticks to twenty foot logs, to a boater’s worst nightmare, deadheads (not that a six ft or larger floating log can’t do significant damage to running gear).
August is known as Fog-ust in the Broughton’s where we like to go boating. With a 0.10 mi vis and cruising at 14kts, a log spotter is necessary to be able to tell the captain which way to dodge as he’s looking on radar for approaching boats.
And lastly, we have traded humid weather with the constant need for AC (although, we heard earlier this summer it was much needed in Desolation Sound) for highs/lows 50/40F and the need for our reverse air to be in heat mode. And a last minute purchase of a down comforter while provisioning at Costco has also been a big plus.