Sea Kayaking Alaska’s Inside Passage

Paddle into the kind of Alaska you daydream about: cold, clear water threading between rainforest-draped islands, with wild coastlines around every bend. In this presentation, you’ll get a front-row look at sea kayaking in Southeast Alaska’s Inside Passage—where whales surface nearby, sea lions ride the swells, and the shoreline can surprise you with bears and more. Through stories, photos, and hard-earned lessons, you’ll travel to nationally protected waters like Glacier Bay National Park and to Misty Fjords National Monument. You’ll also hear highlights from routes that brush past places like Tracy Arm–Ford's Terror Wilderness, and the Admiralty Island wilderness area—often called “Fortress of the Bear” for its famously high concentration of brown bears. This program features highlights from 50 years of sea kayaking in Inside Passage waters—what to watch for, what to plan for, and why this stretch of Alaska keeps calling paddlers back. About our speaker: Scott Foster lived in Juneau for 50 years and has kayaked thousands of miles in Southeast Alaska, capturing more photos than miles paddled. A former TV anchor/producer and radio host, he now shares Alaska stories and imagery through cruise-ship lectures.