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Pre-Season SALE!! Aialik/Northwestern Explorer Kayaking and Wildlife Viewing Trip

If you're looking to book a world-class kayaking experience in Kenai Fjords this summer, we think this trip may be the best around. We designed it from scratch, and we have a beautiful and safe water taxi dedicated exclusively to our customers for this trip.  Using our own water taxi gives us the flexibility to go further on the water, ensuring that we have the best day possible by considering the weather and wildlife locations for each new day. It's also much cheaper than many of our competitor's trips that use a shared water taxi! For a limited time, we are also offering this trip for $40 off! This is a limited sale, use code EXPLORER40 to save! so book soon!
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Aialik/Northwestern Explorer Wildlife Cruise and Kayaking

  • Smaller Groups. Big Adventure.
    This trip is run from a small, private purpose-built water taxi, with a truly small group, for a more exclusive experience
  • Enjoy the Ride
    We use a custom, fast, and well-appointed private water taxi to access the Fjords for this trip
  • Wildlife Viewing
    We take time on the water taxi ride to watch whales, sea lions, pelagic birds, and more

Go farther. See more.

Sale! Use EXPLORER40 at checkout to save $40/pp

This small group kayaking trip uses our custom-built catamaran to go where the paddling looks best for the day and where the crowds aren't — either Northwestern Fjords or Holgate Arm.

Difficulty Level

This is an adventurous trip. It is very fun, but it operates outdoors, so you should be prepared to paddle in all types of weather.

Participants should be comfortable spending several hours actively paddling in a kayak, and with riding in a water taxi for several hours on open seas.



This trip is spectacular. Our private water taxi ensures you won't share the ride with guests from other companies, enabling our captain to tailor each day's kayaking trip to best suit the current conditions and wildlife reports.

Another summer season is around the bend, and with it Liquid Adventures is proud to offer another first for clients who want to explore Kenai Fjords National Park by kayak. Having an exclusive partnership with AK Fjords Marine Service, whose captain and crew operates the private water taxi allows us the flexibility to choose the remote glacial landscape that we paddle in for the day. 

What's the big deal about having a private water taxi? Simple — your boat captain and guide can decide which destination in the Park is best for each day's paddle. They determine the destination based on weather, crowds, and wildlife. This means you will always be in a small group, on a boat with intimate interaction with your captain and guide, and away from the crowds. On your trip, our guides and the captain will assess the day and navigate through the small passages, nooks and crannies of the rocky fjord land coastline to find whales, sea lion haul outs, hidden coves and the best kayaking spots.  

Most days we will be exploring the multiple calving glaciers and steep granite cliffs of the remote, and beautifully raw Northwestern Fjords, or the waters of Holgate Arm with its massive tidewater glacier, ample coastal waterfalls and frequent visits by humpback whales.  You will have the feeling that you are an integral part of making the trip complete, as there are no set destinations or itineraries — only what's best for the day and the group. Because Liquid Adventures is the only company on the boat, there are no other kayaking companies to coordinate with, and that means that we can avoid the 40-50 paddlers that often descend upon Aialik glacier on other kayaking trips. 

On the morning of your trip, after meeting at our office and getting geared up, we will head to the dock and board the private water taxi.  The 2-3 hour cruise to the Fjords will be spent whale watching, spotting otters and sea lions, searching for puffins and sometimes even catching a glimpse of black bears or mountain goats.  Once at our kayaking destination, the boat will either land at a beach or directly launch our kayaks from the landing bow. Our groups spend about 3 hours kayaking through an unimaginable world of towering cliffs, waterfalls, tidewater glaciers, floating chunks of ice, and wildlife in every direction.  Our delicious homemade lunch is served either on a beach, in the kayaks, or on board the water taxi depending on the day and conditions.  

Expect more from your kayaking company.  Liquid Adventures has been the proven leader in experience and quality for 15 years in Seward.  Our guide retention rate over the last five years has been 100%.  That speaks volumes to the vibe we have here at Liquid.  Our guides are stoked everyday because they work in an environment that empowers them with professional decision making and route finding.  No predestined routes here.  Our guides have a minimum of 4 years experience before leading for us, and have a minimum ACA level 2 cert with most certified at level 3 or 4.  These professionals love their job, and their job is to take you to one of the most exciting, active, awe inspiring natural environments in the world.

Consider this THE boutique kayaking adventure in Alaska; we think it is.  And this season we are offering this trip for the same price as the large water-taxi, multi company tours to Aialik that other companies provide.  Our tag line is "Where paddlers come to paddle", and we mean that, but without a crowd.

Explore

Use the numbered steps below to navigate the map and learn more about this overnight trip and where it operates

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Meet at the Shop
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Board our water taxi
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Wildlife Cruise to Kenai Fjords
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Option 1 —Northwestern
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Option 2 —Holgate
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Price

$299

 Per Person

This trip tends to fill up several weeks in advance, as we only take 6 clients at a time. Reserve your trip early!

Season

Summer 
5/20ish to 9/8  

Actual start date changes every season, depending on environmental factor.

Meeting Time

8am

and

2pm

Meeting Place

Trip meets at Liquid Adventures' office at 1013 3rd Ave, Seward Ak 99664

Trip Length

5.5hr

​Total trip time is 5.5 hrs from start to finish (approximately). Roughly 2.5 hours are spent paddling.

Group Size

6

Groups are never larger than 6 people

Difficulty

Some Experience on an SUP required

While not especially physically challenging,  this trip does require that you are comfortable standing on a Paddleboard. 

No Experience? Come out with us on a discounted Paddleboard lesson the day before and get your chops to where they need to be.

We Provide

  • Full-length paddling drysuit
  • Paddle shoes and gloves
  • Paddleboard and paddle
  • Drybag for gear
  • Waterproof phone bag for taking photos
  • Homemade snack!

You Bring

  • 2 pairs of warm socks
  • Warm layers
  • Water
  • Camera (most phone cameras are ideal for this trip

Essential Details

Price

 $459

Meeting Time

8:30am

Don't be late! The water taxi won't wait for us if you're running late. 


Meeting Place

Trip meets at Liquid Adventures' office at 1013 3rd Ave, Seward Ak 99664

Trip Length

 8-10 hours

Group Size

 6

Paddling groups are never larger than 6 people. We'll never have more than 12 clients on the boat at any time.

Minimum Age

 12

Season

Summer 
5/15 to Mid September

Actual start and end dates changes every season, depending on environmental factors.

You Bring

 Warm socks
 Warm, waterproof layers
 Water bottle (you can fill this at our shop)
 Camera (phone cameras are ideal)

We Provide

 Paddle shoes and gloves
 Kayak gear
 Drybag for gear
 Homemade lunch

Difficulty

Small group paddling in the rugged fjords

This trip is great for those who want to paddle with a small group. 

The area we paddle is well-protected, and the small group allows us to cater to the skill-level of our paddlers on any given day.


Photography

We use sit-in kayaks for this trip. You can have your camera around your neck or in a dry bag — we do have water-tight compartments in all of our sit-in kayaks for you to store your gear, but it can be hard to access these compartments while on the water.  Due to Park regulations and consideration of other guests, we do not allow drones to be flown on this trip, unless a private tour is booked.

Other Details

It's important to bring waterproof and warm clothes to ensure that your experience is as pleasant as possible.

Be sure to ask us for recommendations on specific clothing and gear.  Good rain gear is a must.

The Journey to the Glacial Fjords

HIDE

Cruise to the Glaciers on our Private Water Taxi

From our office, we'll take a 2 minute van ride to where the water taxi is moored.

After boarding, it's roughly a 2 hour ride to Aialik, or a 2.5 - 3 hour ride out to Northwestern. We take our time on the way out, looking constantly for marine life like whales, otters, puffins, porpoises, and much more. The journey out can usually be considered a wildlife tour in and of itself.

When we get to our destination, we unload the kayaks and cast off from the vessel, which will return and meet us at the end of the day.

This is a private vessel used exclusively for our tours that is comfortable and fast, offering a more exclusive experience than some of the larger vessels in service.

Book This Trip

Small Water Taxi

Ride in a small, well-appointed water taxi out to the Glacial Fjords.

Please note that this ride, while usually calm, can sometimes get bumpy if weather comes in. We always do our best to make the ride comfortable, but we can't control the weather!

Water Taxi Capacity

 12

A maximum of 12 clients are on the boat during a trip. 

Ride Time

 2-3hrs

The ride in the water taxi is roughly 2-3 hours in each direction. The exact time is highly dependant on weather, and wildlife sightings. Usually, one direction takes longer than the other because we're searching for whales.

Watch

This is a video highlighting the areas that we paddle in on this trip. There's some pretty stunning shots of the Fjords in this video.

Don't be afraid to turn up the volume on this one!

Adventure Packages

Package a tour with our partners and save some serious cash!

We've worked over the last several years to set up partnerships with locally owned adventure companies Exit Glacier Guides and Major Marine Tours. These companies are leaders in their fields, and we're proud to offer discounts on select trips.

  Package Discounts

How to redeem

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Click on the "Book a package trip" button anywhere you see it on the site
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Select a Liquid Adventures trip. Click on "Continue Shopping." Select another trip. If you like, select another, and another...
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In your checkout cart, find the "Have a code?" button in the cost summary and enter the code LAWEBPACKAGE on the second trip
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Congratulate yourself, and bask in the satisfaction of saving serious cash on your trip to Alaska!

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