Adventurous Paddlers Sought for Rare Alaska Kayaking Experience

Sea kayakers are invited to join Alaska on the Home Shore’s expedition to “Wildest Alaska” for a unique paddling adventure in Lituya Bay. This is believed to be the first-ever scheduled kayaking mothership expedition to this remote Gulf of Alaska outpost of Glacier Bay National Park.

Bellingham, Washington (PRWEB) November 25, 2005 -- Sea kayakers are invited to join Alaska on the Home Shore’s expedition to “Wildest Alaska” for a unique paddling adventure in Lituya Bay. This is believed to be the first-ever scheduled kayaking mothership expedition to this remote Gulf of Alaska outpost of Glacier Bay National Park.

Captain Jim Kyle, skipper of the Alaska kayaking mothership Home Shore is looking for fellow sea kayakers to accompany him on a rare paddling exploration of Lituya Bay. “During my several passages to Lituya Bay as a fisherman and charter skipper I have never seen a single kayak,” Kyle says, “and I believe some of these inlets have never been paddled.”

Operating out of Sitka, Alaska, Home Shore is one of the few charter boats that are fully permitted by the National Park Service for Lituya Bay. “We love to go there,” Kyle says, “but only adventuresome guests are willing to endure the several hours of boat travel in the open ocean and undertake exploratory paddling in such an out of the way area.”

The proposed expedition is planned for May 27 through June 3, 2006 aboard Home Shore, Kyle’s 62-foot classic fishing vessel mothership that accommodates six guests in three private double staterooms.

For complete information about this and other sea kayaking mothership trips visit www.homeshore.com or contact Captain Kyle at info@homeshore.com or 800 287-7063 access code 01.

For a history of Lituya Bay see: Wildest Alaska, by Phillip Fradkin, UC Press; Land of the Ocean Mists by Francis Caldwell, Alaska Northwest Publishing Co.; and Glacier Bay, The Land and the Silence, Dave Bohn, Sierra Club/Ballantine Books. Also see the September 2005 issue of PassageMaker magazine.
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