Columbia Glacier Kayak Day Tour - The Guide's Choice

Offering the best wildlife, the best paddling in icebergs and incredible scenery. Columbia Glacier is Alaska's second largest tidewater glacier. Since the early 1980's, the glacier has been retreating catastrophically off of the terminal moraine leaving an 8 mile long field of floating ice in front of it. On this kayak day tour, we get dropped off close to the moraine of the glacier to go sea kayaking into the icebergs. We take a lunch break and a short hike on the glaciers' moraine. Customers provide their own lunch and we will provide hot drinks and snacks. After the break we continue exploring the coastline by kayak. The water taxi will bring us back to Valdez after 5 hours of activity.

Here is how the schedule works on this 10 hour trip.

Hour 1 - Gear up and Instruction
Hour 2-3 - Motorboat water taxi ride to Heather Bay
Hour 4-5 - Kayak from the boat along the coastline and to the moraine of the glacier
Hour 6 - A one hour lunch break on moraine overlooking the ice filed
Hour 7-8 Two more hours of kayaking back out of the ice to the motorboat pick-up
Hour 9-10 The ride back to Valdez

This tour is offered 7 days a week!
Larger groups may request to use Stan Stephens Cruises Tour boat in advance for use as the water taxi and cruise! We use our own USCG inspected water taxi for all regularly scheduled trips.

Don't want to kayak? We would be happy to book your trip aboard the cruise. Only $160 per person. This is a great way to spend the day with your friends and family who do want to kayak. Minimum of 3 cruisers on a trip otherwise cruisers may choose a Stan Stephens Cruise.