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Kenai Fjords Seward Sea KayakingAn Alaska sea kayaking vacation is an amazing and unique way to experience Alaska. Calving tidewater glaciers, icebergs, wildlife, and seeing remote Alaska wilderness are only part of your Alaska sea kayaking journey. Backcountry Safaris is passionate about what we do and we look forward to teaching you more about Alaska's natural history and culture. And best of all, our sea kayaking Alaska guides will also teach you how to sea kayak, no prior sea kayaking experience is required.

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The Backcountry Safaris Difference
Compare the differences and see why you should choose Backcountry Safaris for your Alaska sea kayaking adventure.

  • Experience - Since 1986, 25 years experience guiding Alaska sea kayakers. Recent awards include recognition by National Geographic as one the best adventure travel companies. Certified Alaska Travel Expert by the Alaska Travel Industry Association.
  • Kenai Fjords, Alaska sea kayakDry Suits - We provide dry suits to keep you warm, dry, and help protect you from hypothermia in Alaska's cold waters. Other Seward, Alaska sea kayaking outfitters provide or you have to rent at extra cost rain gear and rubber boots that offer little protection.
  • Single kayaks - Option to paddle your own single sea kayak on multi-day trips. Most sea kayaking outfitters provide no choice; you have to paddle a double sea kayak.
  • Specialty Gear - We provide the specialty gear you need. Compare what we provide, no hidden or added gear costs having to rent or buy needed gear. We supply dry suits, pogies (kayaking gloves), rain gear, rubber boots, sleeping pad, tents, and dry bags.
  • Sea Kayaking Trip For Everyone - Sea kayaking trips to fit your available time, budget, and desired comfort level. Offered are 1/2 day to 7-day tours to the greatest sea kayaking destinations in Alaska; Seward, Resurrection Bay, Kenai Fjords National Park, Bear Glacier, Prince William Sound and Glacier Bay.
  • Complete Tour Packages - Sea Kayaking tours that include pre-trip Alaska transportation and Alaska lodging. In Seward only Backcountry Safaris offers pre-trip lodging and transportation packages that simplify your travel planning.
  • Swimming Black Bear in Kenai Fjords National ParkNo Prior Experience Required - Beginners, families and skilled sea kayakers are all welcome. No prior sea kayaking experience is required. We will teach you the basic sea kayaking skills you need for our sea kayaking adventures.
  • Sea Kayak Rentals and Guide Rentals - If you prefer a do-it-yourself adventure, sea kayak rentals and guide rentals are available. Alaska water taxi service is also available from Seward or Whittier to locations in Resurrection Bay, Kenai Fjords, Bear Glacier and Price William Sound.
  • Environmental Commitment - All of our Alaska sea kakaying tours are run in a matter to minimize environmental impact. We practice Leave No Trace camping techniques.
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Compare all our Alaska Sea Kayak Adventures. We offer sea kayaking trips to fit your available time, budget, and desired comfort level.

7-Day Kenai Fjords National Park Sea Kayak Trip Departing From Anchorage, Alaska. Our most popular Alaska sea kayaking trip.

5-Day Kenai Fjords Sea Kayak Alaska Adventure Departing From Seward, Alaska

5-Day Kenai Fjords Sea Kayaking Adventure Departing From Anchorage, Alaska

4-Day Kenai Fjords Sea Kayaking Adventure Departing From Anchorage, Alaska

3-Day Kenai Fjords Sea Kayaking Adventure Departing From Seward, Alaska

2-Day Kenai Fjords Sea Kayaking Adventure Departing From Seward, Alaska

Bear Glacier. Deluxe Eco-adventure Sea Kayaking Retreat Seward, Alaska

1-Day Seward Sea Kayaking and Alaska Railroad, Departs Anchorage, Alaska

1-Day Caines Head Sea Kayaking and Fort McGilvray Hiking Adventure, Departing from Seward, Alaska

1/2 Day Seward Sea Kayaking, Resurrection Bay Tonsina Point Sea Kayaking Adventure

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Alaska Yacht Cruises
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Explore Southeast Alaska and Glacier Bay National Park in luxury aboard an Alaska yacht cruise. Spend time sea kayaking, hiking, and exploring a new locations everyday, massive tidewater glaciers and wildlife viewing in the comfort aboard a Alaska American Safari yachting Adventure.

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Alaska Small Ship Cruises
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Travel through pristine wilderness in comfort aboard an small cruise ship. We enhance your wilderness Alaska Cruise experience even more by offering sea kayaking. Kayaks provide an indescribable way to experience the wonders of Glacier Bay National Park and wildlife of southeast Alaska at your own pace, propelled by your own curiosity.

Denali National Park and Seward Sea Kayaking
Combine the best Alaska has to offer by land and sea with this special package adventure. Itineraries is a combination of our Denali National Park Adventure Package with our Kenai Fjords National Park Sea Kayaking Adventure.

7-Day Kenai Fjords sea kayaking and Denali National Park tour package departing from Anchorage, Alaska
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1, 2, 3 and 7 day Trips
Photograph Alaska's World famous Brown Bears
Our 1 to 3 day adventures takes you to a private wilderness fly-in bear viewing camp in Lake Clark National Park. Few locations in Alaska can match the grandeur of this pristine bear viewing location.

If you're wanting the ultimate bear viewing experience our 7-day includes a Katmai National Park wilderness river trip to see bears along the Savonoski river and ends at the world famous Brooks Falls.

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Alaska Whale Watching and Glacier Cruise
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Kenai Fjords Park
Seward, Alaska
SMALL BOAT WHALE WATCING GLACIER
Small Group Whale Watching, Wildlife, Glacier, and Natural History Tour. If you want the best Alaska whale watching and glacier cruise experience our small boat tour is the ultimate. We limit our group size to 15 and can poition the boat so everyone gets a perfect view. Also private custom tours with as few as 2 people is possible. We take extra effort so you will never miss that photo opportunity of a lifetime. Trips depart for Seward at 8:00 am.

KENAI FJORDS TOURS WHALES GLACIERS
Alaska's No 1 Wildlife and Glacier Cruises
Alaska's most popular wildlife and glacier cruise! Kenai Fjords National Park offers tidewater glaciers, whales, sea lions, sea otters and more. Tours are fully narrated by an accredited wildlife interpreter.

6 different day whale watching and glacier cruise options with number of departure times. Also there are overnight Fox Island stay options available.
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Backcountry Safaris
P.O. Box 1397 Seward, Alaska USA 99664
1-907-222-1632 or toll-free 1-877-812-2159
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Alaska: A Novel by James A. Michener
Alaska: A History of the 49th State by Claus-M Naske and Herman E. Slotnick
Guide to the Birds of Alaska by Robert H. Armstrong
Wild Flowers of the Yukon, Alaska by John G. S. Trelawny
Coming into the Country by John McPhee
Travels in Alaska by John Muir
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Alaska Facts
  1. Alaska State Flower: Forget-me-not
  2. Alaska State Bird: Willow Ptarmigan
  3. Alaska State Tree: Sitka Spruce
  4. Alaska State Mineral: Gold
  5. Alaska State Gem: Jade
  6. Alaska State Mammal: Moose
  7. Alaska State Fish: King Salmon
  8. Alaska State Sport: Dog Mushing
  9. State Nickname: The Last Frontier
  10. State Motto: North To The Future
  11. State Song: Alaska's Flag
  12. Alaska State Holidays: Alaska Day, Oct.18th and Seward's Day March 27
  13. The United States purchased Alaska from Russia in 1867 for $7.2 million, about 2 cents an acre.
  14. 15 species of whales are found in Alaska waters.
  15. Alaska has more than 80 potentially active volcanoes.
  16. The flag of Alaska contains 8 gold stars representing the Big Dipper and the North Star on a field of blue.
  17. Longest Day: Barrow the sun rises on May 10th, it don't set for nearly 3 months.
  18. Shortest Day: Barrow when sun sets on November 18th, Barrow residents do not see the sun again for nearly two months.
  19. What maybe the oldest documented site of human habitation in North America, the Mesa Site found in 1993 lies 150 miles north of the Arctic Circle.
  20. There are more than 3,000 rivers in Alaska and over 3 million lakes.
  21. The name of Alaska probably comes from Unalaska, an Aleut word derived from agunalaksh which translates the shores where the sea breaks its back.
  22. The 90,000 Native people of Alaska make up roughly 15% of the state's population.
  23. Almost half of Alaska (175 million acres) is classified as wetlands.
  24. Highest Point: Mount Denali (Mount McKinley), 20,320 ft
  25. 17 of the highest 20 mountains in the U.S. are in Alaska. It has 19 peaks over 14,000 feet.
  26. Of the total 365 million acres of land that make up Alaska, less than one-twentieth of 1% is settled.
  27. Alaska has numerous natural hot springs found across the state. Near Port Moller Hot Springs on the Alaska Peninsula, a village site has been occupied intermittently over the past 3000 years.
  28. The largest gold nugget found in Alaska was discovered near Nome in 1903. It weighed 155 troy ounces and was 2 inches thick, 4 inches wide and 7 inches long.
  29. It is estimated that there are 100,000 glaciers in Alaska covering 29,000 square miles or 5% of the state.
  30. The estimated tidal shoreline of Alaska including inlets, islands and shoreline to head of tidewater is 47,300 miles.
  31. The largest state in the union, Alaska is one-fifth the size of the Lower 48 and spans 2,400 miles east to west and 1,420 miles north to south.
  32. On average 1,000 earthquakes registering 3.5 or more on the Richter scale occur in Alaska each year.
  33. Most snowfall in 24 hours: 62 inches, at Thompson Pass near Valdez, Dec. 1955.
  34. Most monthly snowfall: 297.9 inches, at Thompson Pass near Valdez, Feb. 1953.
  35. Most snowfall in a season: 974.5 inches (over 81 feet), at Thompson Pass near Valdez, 1952-53.
  36. Most precipitation in 24 hours: 15.2 inches, in Angoon, Oct. 12, 1982.
  37. Most monthly precipitation: 70.99 inches at MacLeod Harbor (Montague Island), Nov. 1976.
  38. Most annual precipitation: 332.29 inches at MacLeod Harbor (Montague Island), 1976.
  39. Highest recorded temperature: 100¡F, at Ft. Yukon, June 27, 1915.
  40. Lowest recorded temperature: -80¡F, at Prospect Creek Camp, Jan. 23, 1971.
  41. Earthquakes: 9.2 on the Richter Scale on March 27th 1964 - the strongest ever recorded in North America
  42. 430 bird species have been sited in Alaska.
  43. Over 50 species of wild fruit is found in Alaska including Low and Highbush Cranberries, Blueberries, Salmonberries, wild rose and strawberries.
  44. Three species of bear are found in Alaska: the black, the brown/grizzly and the polar bear. Brown bears are the largest living omnivorous land mammals in the world.
  45. The Arctic Circle is the latitude where the sun does not set for one day at summer solstice and does not rise for one day at winter solstic.
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