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We guide whale watching 🐳 + wildlife tours 🐻🦅
by land 🚌 + sea🛥 in📍Sitka, AK
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Today we made it to 72° in Sitka, Alaska. This is

Today we made it to 72° in Sitka, Alaska. This is positively the “down south” heat wave hitting us. And we’re loving it✌️

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It used to be that our land tour was always the ad

It used to be that our land tour was always the add-on or sidekick to Cpt.Gary’s marine tour.

Well, I’m proud to say—because I’ve been hustlin’ with my sign out on the dock for many years now—that it has taken on a life of its own with many of our guests just doing the “land stuff.”

Bears, birds, and totems. It’s what you want to see in a day while visiting Sitka. The highlights. And although I see the bears, birds, and totems every day, I still love them.

But if you want to do *all the things*, our combo tour is the absolute best way to spend your time in Sitka. You get the whale watching and the bear watching+ all in day.

We’re already booking up for 2024. Come adventure with us!
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Here are some pics from our land tour lately 👋

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Me (land tour lady): “Hey Cpt.Gary, we need to s

Me (land tour lady): “Hey Cpt.Gary, we need to share some marine tour pics. Send me what you’ve been seeing out there.”

Cpt.Gary: “Here ya go. Epicness.” 🤙🏼

It’s been a great season with many epic wildlife tours (by land + sea) so far.

Here’s a little taste of what Gary’s crew has gotten to see out in Sitka Sound 🐋

Happy July! More to come …

P.S. Watch the last video to the end. She gets the quotable guest award 💥

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For all the Littles that come on tour with us: You

For all the Littles that come on tour with us: You can become a Junior Ranger when we visit Sitka National Historical “Totem” park! 🥷🌲 How cool is that?!

#juniorranger @sitkanps

May there always be light and adventure in your he

May there always be light and adventure in your heart 🔥

Happy Summer Solstice!

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When you hop off the ship in Sitka and see this gi

When you hop off the ship in Sitka and see this girl, give her a high-five or a fist bump 👊🏼

This is a 5th generation Sitkan right here! #roots

For the month of May (until her summer school program starts) Genevieve will be my co-tour guide and how lucky we are to get to share in her energy and love for her hometown.

Plus she knows her stuff. She can tell you all about the bears and the birds and the totems (along with random musings on everything from Barbie to Bluey).

We’re already having so much fun. Come along with us! 🤸🏻‍♀️❣️🤸

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We’re ready for the tourists but are the tourist

We’re ready for the tourists but are the tourists ready for us? 😜

✌️day countdown. Went to check on the whales 🐳
It’s looking good 🙌

Here we go! 🚤 + 🚐💨

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Hey hey Brilliance! 🛳️ We just got home aft

Hey hey Brilliance! 🛳️

We just got home after charging our batteries🔋on a little tropical getaway and look what we got to see as we flew in!

Such a wondrous sight to behold: Beautiful Sitka (although still a little wintery 🥶) and our first ship of the season @brillianceoftheseas1

So cheers to the next 5 months of our ‘23 tour season!🥂

We can’t wait to see you all soon 🙌

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Whale, hello there 👋 It’s been a minute … o

Whale, hello there 👋 It’s been a minute … or a whole year 🙃

We kind of dropped outta here for awhile 🫣 but we miss sharing so here’s a little recap on us: Our tours last season were amazing (our busiest season to date), our off-island adventures have been grand, and our “baby” daughter is about to turn 6.

Current news: Gary is already out on the water doing his thing—whale-whispering and making people happy—and today might have been his most amazing whale-watching day ever with huge numbers of Humpback Whales congregating “like Humpies (aka Pink Salmon) in a river.”

He’s been making good use of the hydrophone to listen in on the action. And you know what that haunting whale song is saying? HERRING! Well that’s our best educated guess anyway 😜

It’s that special time of year in Southeast Alaska … spring has sprung, the herring are spawning, and the whales are ready to feast … while we feast our eyes (and cameras) on them 🎥

Here’s a sweet photo from today of the Blue Dawg courtesy of the great photographer @donkluting + a video of that crazy beautiful, highly-coordinated, graceful feeding frenzy, known as bubble-net feeding 🫧 🐟🐟🐟 🫧 🐋

What a show 🤩

We’ll be sharing much more this year. It’s shaping up to be a really good one 👏

📸 @mingcat88

#spring #whalewatching #humpackwhale #bubblenetfeeding #herringseason #sitkaalaska #alaska #alaskacruise #alaskatour #sitkatour #alaskashoreexcursions #captaingarys #makeitepic

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Some snippets from our Christmas Day🎄 We’re

Some snippets from our Christmas Day🎄

We’re here in our little neck of the woods {📍Sitka, Alaska} being together {the best place to be}, counting our blessings {so many}, and sending love and joy to the whole wide world {cheesy but true} 🫶

So although we’ve been a little—or a lot ☺️—absent from social media, we figured what better time than today to say:

THANK YOU for being our friend/client {same same to us} and know that we’re here stoking our fire, warming our hearts, and revving our engines for many big adventures to come in 2023 🔥

We’ve still got some adventuring to do over the winter. Santa {aka Cpt.Gary} has brought us tickets to a very exotic locale {hint in this video if you’re curious 😉} but come March, spring will be bringing us longer {sunnier🤞} days, the boat will be back in the water, the vans getting spiffied up, and all of us {+ some new team mates} will be ready to share the epic adventures. We’re so looking forward to it!

🛥️ 🌊 + 🚐 🏔️ + 🐳 + 🐻 + 🦅 + 👨‍👨‍👧‍👦 {you} = Epicness

With big cheer from us to you ♥️✌️
Gary, Koali, Genevieve + Niko

#merrychristmas #makeitepic

Just a sunny day at the @fortressofthebear. I’

Just a sunny day at the @fortressofthebear.

I’m going to miss these guys when they go into their winter sleep.

#bestofsitkatour #bear #brownbear #fortressofthebear #itsavibe #visitsitka #travelalaska #alaskacruise #shoreexcursion #sitkaalaska

I had a great time on tour today with my co-guide

I had a great time on tour today with my co-guide Genevieve 👯

I know our guests enjoyed it too.

It was all sunshine and rainbows
(+ bears, birds, salmon, and totem poles).

Let it shine, baby ✌️

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For all the Niko fans out there: Thanks for loving

For all the Niko fans out there: Thanks for loving on our boy. He sure loves his life as Cpt.Gary’s #furstmate 💙

If you got Niko pics from your adventure with us please share by tagging #furstmateniko.

With big love from our fur fam to yours 🐶💗 #nationaldogday

Welcome Serenade @royalcaribbean 👋 📍Sitka

Welcome Serenade @royalcaribbean 👋

📍Sitka Sound Cruise Terminal “up the road”

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A great capture of a pair of Steller Sea Lions by

A great capture of a pair of Steller Sea Lions by one of our guests on the Whale Watching Marine Wildlife Tour today.

📸 @staghornphotography

Me and the bears, people watching. Sometimes peopl

Me and the bears, people watching. Sometimes people are the most interesting sight of all.

#bestofsitkatour #tourguidelife #tour #sitkaalaska #visitsitka @fortressofthebear

Come explore the intertidal zone at Totem Park wit

Come explore the intertidal zone at Totem Park with us! 🦀 🪨

@sitkanps #tidepooling #intertidalzone #bestofsitkatour #landtour #history #totempole #tlingit #culture #art #explore #alaskacruise #shoreexcursion #sitkaalaska #visitsitka

Tour guide in training 🚐💨 Today our guests

Tour guide in training 🚐💨

Today our guests got to meet a 5th generation Sitkan 🙌

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The “raptors-in-residence” of the Alaska Rapto

The “raptors-in-residence” of the Alaska Raptor Center. They got the WOW factor 🤩

#raptors #sawwhetowl #snowyowl #hawk #baldeagle #bestofsitkatour #landtour #tour #shoreexcursion #alaskacruise #sitkaalaska #visitsitla raptororg

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