Description
Your Guaranteed Whale Watching Adventure begins right from the docks! We will meet you at Icy Strait Point and transfer you to our vessel, Captain and Crew. For 2.5 hours, you’ll be traveling through the waters of Icy Strait – home to a wide array of wildlife, including Orcas (killer whales), Stellar sea lions, sea otters, Harbor seals, Dall’s porpoise, and the magnificent humpback whale.
Keep an eye out for brown bears and Sitka Black-tailed deer meandering the shoreline, and the noble Bald eagle perched on tree-tops. From the village of Hoonah to Pt. At Adolphus near Glacier Bay National Park, your Icy Strait whale-watching guides will delight in sharing Alaska's majestic beauty and culture! The 3-hour Guaranteed Whale Watching Adventure includes transfers on the Gondola and to our boat, plus 2.5 hours on the water in a 24-passenger vessel.
Your hosts, the owners, skippers, and crew, are all descendants of the Hoonah Tlingit, Southeast’s first people. Join us on this Icy Strait whale watching tour and see the landscape and bounty through the eyes of Alaska Natives. Listen to accounts of the rich history and culture of a people who once inhabited Glacier Bay, then were forced by advancing glaciers to migrate and develop the village of Hoonah. Live a chapter in their ongoing adventure.
Your Guaranteed Whale Watching Adventure guides will meet you at the cruise docks, where your knowledgeable guides will meet you for a stunning gondola ride to the boat. Once aboard the custom 43-foot vessel, you’ll travel the resource-rich waters of the Inside Passage surrounding Hoonah and Icy Strait Point for 2 and a half hours.
Your native guides will fill your trip with stories about the area’s history and insights into its beautiful flora and fauna. Keep your eyes peeled for humpback whales, orcas, Stellar sea lions, eagles, and more! We’re so confident you will see at least one whale on this Icy Strait whale watching tour that we offer a guarantee! So remember your cameras, binoculars, and layers for your adventure on the Alaskan seas.
For an even more in-depth adventure, and to save by combining excursions, consider the Whale Watching & Mendenhall Glacier Tour.
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If you’ve entered your travel date and group size and do not see any tours available, the tours are most likely sold out, not operating that day, or the schedule has not yet been released for booking. If the specific tour you wanted is missing from the results, that usually means it is not available for your selected date, time, or group size.
Popular Alaska shore excursions like this one can sell out months in advance, especially during peak season. If you’re visiting by cruise ship, many tours also require a 45–60 minute buffer to ensure you make it to and from your ship on time, so departures too close to your arrival or all-aboard time won’t appear. For the best chance of securing your preferred tour, date, and departure time, we recommend booking as soon as your travel itinerary is confirmed.
Our live availability calendar is the most accurate and up-to-date source for open departures. If no options appear after you enter your details, we recommend checking other available tour types for your port or adjusting your group size if your party can split across separate departures or activities.
For future-season travel, schedules are released gradually, most often in the fall as cruise schedules are finalized. If you’re searching for next season and do not see availability yet, that usually means those departures have not been released, not that they are already sold out. We recommend checking back later as more schedules become available.
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Quick Facts
Itinerary • 3h 00min • 4 activities
Highly recommend
Must Do!!
Whale of a Time!
So many whales!
Not just Humpback Whales!
