Sea Kayaking

The Hotel Edgewater is the proud host of the Seward Sea Kayaking Symposium during May of each year. Seward offers a great opportunity for beginning, intermediate, and advance kayakers to kayak in a variety of different venues. We have trips to Fox Island, Resurrection Bay, Aialik Bay, Orca Island, Thumb Cove, Humpy Cove, Kayaker’s Cove, Sunny Cove, and more.

Thumb Cove Paddle...Start your adventure with basic instruction and warm-ups on the beach then depart from Miller's Landing at Lowell Point on our 16-passenger water taxi and enjoy the ride to beautiful Thumb Cove. You are dropped off with your guide on a remote beach with a beautiful waterfall. Paddle to the salmon streams and see 3 alpine glaciers surrounding the cove. ($89* per person plus tax and Alaska State Park fees) Water taxi included. Trip time: 7 AM to 10 AM; 9 AM to 12 AM; 11 am to 2 PM, and 1 PM to 4 PM;

Fox Island to Thumb Cove... You will unload the kayaks at Fox Island and paddle to beautiful Humpy Cov, watching for wildlife asyou go. The paddle will en din calm waters of Thumb Cove, where you can see 3 piedmont glaciers and a salmon stream. You will stop along the way for a relaxing lunch break. Thumb Cove is breathtakingly beautiful, and it is usually easy to observe wildlife there (sea lions feeding on salmon, bald eagles flying overhead).... This is one of our favorite paddles! $179.00 per person, plus tax 7 AM to 2 PM; or 11 AM returning around 6pm.

Kenai Fjords Aialik Paddle... This is the ultimate Alaskan full day trip and goes to the heart of the beautiful pristine waters of the Kenai Fjords National Park. You will hop aboard a brand-new catamaran or a custom built 16 passenger charter boat, and take a 2 hour ride through the Fjords to Holgate Bay, seeing many of the highlights of the Kenai Fjords National Park on the way....On the taxi, we usually see sea otters, porpoise, sea lions, eagles, and often whales as well as puffins and an abundance of sea birds! We will paddle for the day around the Holgate Glacier, Aialik Glacier, and Pederson Bay area where we see the magnificent calving glaciers, icebergs, seals, and more wildlife... You will be amazed at the breathtaking beauty of this area. There is nothing like it and this is world class kayaking at its best.

Our kayak guides will supply a delicious lunch for you as well as providing breakfast on the way out and a hearty snack on the way back! Spend the day with your guide, paddling, hiking and exploring the Fjords! We pick you up about 3:30 pm (allowing for a full day of exploring the Fjords) and then head back, returning to Seward at approximately 5:30 PM. (includes approximately 4 hours of sightseeing on the water taxi and 5 hours of kayaking/hiking and exploring in the heart of the Kenai Fjords amongst icebergs, seals, bird rookeries, calving glaciers, whales, and more...) This all day 5 hour paddle in the Fjords is is the best trip we have to offer! 

Departs at approx 8 AM; return at approx. 5:30 PM *price is $450.00 per person, plus tax.