We provide guided jet boat tours up the Stikine River into the Stikine/LeConte Wilderness area in covered, heated jet boats. This is also an excellent opportunity to view and photograph wildlife such as black and brown bears, moose, occasional deer, sea lions and lots of eagles depending on the time of year. Seals are abundant on the Stikine River delta. The Stikine River tour's include opportunity to view icebergs in Chief Shakes lake. The tour's run from May 1 through August 20.

Your guide will stop often for rest stops and to interpret local and gold rush history as well as native cultural interpretation. Alaska Waters takes a keen interest in the Alaska Native role throughout the history of Alaska. Dick Stokes, Tlingit Elder, is our official Native historian. He is Wilma Leslie's father. Wilma is Alaska Water's Vice President and the wife of Jim Leslie, President. Jim is grateful for the education he was able to acquire at the hand of Elder Stokes. All of our guides are versed in native cultural history as well as legends.

The tour crosses the Stikine River Delta and your guide will work his way up the river via back-sloughs and waterways. This is a spectacular mountainous area with waterfalls and lush rainforest vegetation. You will tour tributaries to the Stikine River where salmon will be gathered in large Schools to spawn (July and August). You will see Eagle nests and depending on time of year, large numbers of Bald Eagles.

The Stikine River Tour departs at 8:30 AM and we get back to the dock at 1:30 PM. This is an all day tour, and you will want to bring a lunch. Sack lunches can easily be purchased from any restaurant or deli in town. Alaska Water's provides complimentary sodas and bottled water.

Alaskan Guides guide all of our tour's. Our Guides have extensive knowledge of the area as well as knowledge of the local flora and fauna. All guides have Emergency Trauma Technician (or higher) medical certification. All guides are licensed, certified by the US Coast Guard and all of our operations are fully insured.

*Access to Chief Shakes glacier will depend on the time of year, level of river and the number of icebergs at the entrance of Chief Shakes lake.

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