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EXTRAS AND SPECIAL OFFERS
We are celebrating our 16th year in business 2009 - read on to see why we stand out in our industry. We are
a well established, fiscally sound company - we put the highest ratio of your dollars to your actual trip than any others in our industry while paying our guides and vendors well and providing top quality equipment and attentive customer service from your first contact with us until your return from your trip.
Special Offers:
- Sign up for our
monthly e-newsletter to
receive special offers/discounts, to find out the latest SKA news, and natural
history information and updates in the areas we paddle.
- We know the
best and cheapest ways to get to Loreto in Baja and to BC Canada - call us tollfree at
1-800-616-1943 or 208-765-3116. Airlines are changing constantly these days, and online options can be confusing, so please call
us for details as we are intimately familiar with our destinations. Airfares have been quite reasonable recently.
- Refer 8 people to us and receive a free book "Listening to Whales" by longtime orca researcher Alexandra Morton specifically about the northern resident orcas of Johnstone Strait, BC Canada.
Early Bird
Incentives:
- Baja 2009-2010 dates are currently posted on our website
click here. We'll honor the posted rates (which are the same rates we charged in 2008 & 2009) for 2010 trips if booked by August 1, 2009.
- Watch our website and enewsletters for our frequent early bird specials.
New & Special
Trips:
- "Parents with Teens" Johnstone Strait and God's Pocket Lodge-based
trips July & Aug 2009 10% off for teenagers age 14 through
17. Kayak with orcas! Call us for summer 2009 Family trip dates
- God's Pocket lodge-based
2009 tours are almost sold out- don't miss out! We have exclusive se of the lodge, which is the only lodge in the pristine God's Pocket Provincial Park (Youth 10% off)
- Queen Charlotte Islands - Haida Gwaii National Park 10-day expedition paddling July & Aug - in conjunction with a trusted outfitter who holds one of the only permits in the park - call for details.
- Oct & Nov 2009 Baja Quick Adventures starting at just $995! Youth 10% off all Baja & BC tours
- Apr 20-May 1, 2010 Carmen Island Circumnavigation - truly special trip we only run once a year
Youth and Repeat Guest
Discounts: We offer a discount of 5% off any trip for our returning guests
(can't be combined with any other discount). This is our "Thank You" to
everyone who has joined us on an earlier trip. (Discounts do not apply to
Mothership or Galapagos tours which are run by our colleagues). Youth discount 10 % off. We believe we are the only company in our industry to offer
these discounts.
Group Rates: If
you're able to get a group of 11 or more other people together, you go for 60% off
(group rate does not apply to Mothership or Galapagos tours as these are run by our associates).
Custom Trips: We
can arrange custom trips such as women's trips, girlfriend getaways, men-only,
friends, milestone birthdays, families, reunions, kayak clubs, singles, "bikini boot camp" fitness trips,
yoga trips, birding trips. Give us a call for further details.
link - click here for article on women-only
kayaking in Baja.
Families with
Children: Most of our trips are geared towards people aged 14 and over but
our Gray Whale base camp trips are ideal for families with children as young as
8. For age 12 and under for Baja trips, call and speak to Nancy Mertz for
further details. Special discounts for children 17 and under are
available. We also offer special trips just for families in
Johnstone Strait, our new
Baja whale watching camp and the
Sea of Cortez. Call us for dates.
Click here for article on Family Kayaking in
Johnstone Strait.
Video and DVD: We
will be happy to loan you a VHS video or DVD featuring our tours so you can see
for yourself what our trips are all about. Please call us for a
copy. We are also on YouTube and Facebook.
Carbon Offsetting:
We are the first sea kayak outfitter we know of to totally
offset our
carbon footprint. Starting In Dec 2007 we paid
Native Energy Travel
Offsets to offset the impact of running our business in 2007 and we are continuing to do so. We will do this at the end of each calendar year. If
you want to donate to a green organization to offset the carbon produced by
your air travel, visit: http://climatecrisis.net/takeaction/carboncalculator/
Non-profit organizations we
belong to: California Gray Whale Coalition, Audubon, Idaho Rivers United, America Outdoors, The Trade Assn of
Paddlesports, GrupoTortuguero, Port McNeill Chamber of Commerce, Port Hardy Chamber of Commerce, The Ocean
Conservancy, Nature Conservancy. We provide safety kayaking and volunteer services for Ironman USA, and the
Coeur d'Alene Triathalon.
Holiday/Peak Season Travel Tips:
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Add-ons: Our
intimate knowledge of the areas we travel makes us a great resource for
planning your vacation. Let us help put together extra activities and
accommodations in addition to your Sea Kayak Adventures tour.
Click here for more information or call us with any
question at all.
Grizzly Bear
Watching, Spirit Bear, River Rafting, Diving and Mothership Tours
Through the many years of operating adventure travel in our areas, we have
become very familiar with other first-class outfitters who are the best in
their specialty. Call us for more information regarding grizzly bear watching
and spirit bear tours in British Columbia, river rafting on the Salmon River in
Idaho and Tatshenshini River in the Yukon, SCUBA diving in Baja's Sea of Cortez and
BC's Browning Passage, kayaking in Belize and Galapagos, and mothership tours
in Baja, Alaska and BC Canada.
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