Alaska's Cook Inlet is a popular kayaking destination, but the West side of the inlet has been out of the reach of most paddlers due to a lack of guides and facilities. Silver Salmon Creek Lodge is proud to announce the first full-service kayaking operation on the West side.
Let Silver Salmon Creek be your kayaking base on the West side of Cook Inlet. We offer a variety of kayaking experiences, ranging from beginning paddles with instructor and all equipment provided to full-day trips for those with some experience and multi-day trips for those with more time. All trips away from the Lodge are guided.
| Short Paddles with Instruction: At high tides the creek and sloughs around the Lodge itself become an ideal kayaking site. They are excellent for beginning paddlers but feature plenty of scenery to keep the veteran enthusiastic. You may see a Brown Bear and cubs feeding on the grass, or a Bald Eagle scouring the shoreline for food. |
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Full-day Tours: Full day kayaking tours through Tuxedni Bay are available in late May through early July. The wildflowers are peaking during those months and the famous Cook Inlet tides will help propel you up into the Bay where you can see a glacier as well as the towering Mt. Iliamna, one of America's largest active volcanoes.
Guided sea kayaking can be a half-day, all day, or even multi-day
adventure
You'll also be able to kayak around an active seabird rookery, featuring both Horned and Tufted Puffins as well as Common Murres and Black-legged Kittiwakes. Also active on and around the Bay are Black Oystercatchers, Parakeet Auklets and many other shorebirds and seabirds. A stop at "Fossil Point" will provide you with an opportunity to go back in time by searching for Jurassic era marine fossils.
For the more casual eco-tourist a friendly canoe paddle
on the lake near
the Lodge makes for a romantic morning or evening.
Custom Trips: Custom or multi-day trips are available by special arrangement. Please email: davidcoray@aol.com.