Kayak Trips

Fun, Excitment, and Adventure

Kayak trips can be one of the most enjoyable and fun experiences of all the outdoor sports. Whether you enjoy slicing through rough, choppy whitecaps, sneaking into those hard to reach fishing spots, bird watching or just photographing the wildlife and scenery along nature’s wild and beautiful rivers and oceans, a kayak trip will be one that you’ll cherish time and time again. Be sure to use our kayak trips checklist to prepare for your next outing.

Kayak Trips Get You Back To Nature

Among the local wildlife you might expect to see like raccoons, red squirrels, and chipmunks, you may also encounter a moose, the cute but prickly porcupine, mournful loon or the one of the Great-blue Herons. Not only can avid bird watchers enjoy the songs and antics of a typical “bird around town,” but they can also enjoy watching the gray jay and even the Common Merganser. Avid kayakers claim that the Merganser, which is a small duck, can float down a raging rapid in all its care-free glory without suffering even the tiniest scratch, but make sure you check out the rapids yourself before trying to follow him.

Kayak Trips with Whales

One of the greatest wildlife experiences you can have while enjoying a kayak trip has to be whale watching. The unsurpassed thrill of an encounter with the great blue whale, the largest of all whale species, is the ultimate in whale watching experiences. As many as six different types of whales can be observed while sea kayaking Baja, California, where if you’re lucky, you can sometimes reach out and touch one of these beautiful mammals of the ocean. What a great and fun way to get up close and personal with nature’s greatest and largest living water-based animals. Whales can also be seen by the avid kayaker in the Mexican waters during the winter, where they birth their calves - and summering in the northern Canadian and arctic waters.

Kayak Trips for Excitement

If its thrill and excitement you crave, there’s nothing like a well planned kayak trip. You can do everything from slicing through the big, white, waves in whitewater rivers, to having a phenomenally good time by digging in for a loop, cart-wheeling, bow stalling and other tricks most whitewater kayakers love to do.

You can also surf two to twelve foot waves with ease at the ocean or for the kayaking newcomer, surf something as small as a ripple, where you can pull a fast 360 or even a slow 180. Doing enders and stem squirts out of a hole is great fun, too. There’s nothing like tackling big rivers and drops to test your kayaking skill and increase your overall fun and enjoyment. Be sure to get qualified instruction in techniques before heading to the put-in.

Kayak Fishing Trips

On the gentler side, fishing in your kayak can provide you with long afternoons and days of relaxation for a shorter kayak trip. Many kayaks can be equipped with the ultimate in fishing accessories that will make an avid fisherman feel like he can catch anything, especially with the kayak’s ability to squeeze into those tight or shallow fishing spots that he or she could normally never reach in a boat. Smaller children even use the kayak for diving and swimming, making a kayak fishing trip an adventure for the whole family.