Crystal Seas General Photo Gallery

(for more photos from our tours, visit the photo galleries on the individual tour pages)

Are you looking to make one of our tours part of your kayak vacation this year? You’ve come to the right place! Crystal Seas has a sea kayaking tour for you whether you want to paddle in the summer or winter.  Washington's San Juan Islands run late April through early October.  The Florida Everglades are offered December through early April. 

Paddling the coastline of San Juan Island.

This is one of the local pods of orcas passing through a salmon migration route where we paddle on our tours. If you have ever had the chance to sit in a kayak with orcas passing by, you know how exciting this special moment is.  We follow the Be Whale Wise Guidelines when the orcas are around as well as local, state and federal laws. 

 

Lime Kiln Point Light House located on the western side of San Juan Island in Washington State. 

Our standard tours are small groups of eight or less people.  We can also provide kayak tours for larger groups; custom and private.  We offer discounts for groups of eight or more people.  So come alone, bring a friend or bring the whole family on a sea kayaking tour with us! Here you can see our guide Sarah paddling with some of her guests on a three hour tour.

The San Juan Islands are home to a large population of bald eagles. It is not uncommon to see nesting pairs perched in large dead trees along the coastline and along our country roads.

Taking a lunch break on a pebble stone beach in the San Juan Islands.  Mount Baker is in the background which is part of the Cascade Mountain Range

Dall's porpoise are commonly mistaken by people who kayak orca territory as an orca but porpoise are much smaller than orcas and usually travel in small groups or solo and are much more shy. 

Florida's Everglades

Tim cooking dinner for his guests in the Florida Everglades. 

 

The Florida Everglades are a birders paradise.  Here you can see a great white heron sitting in the mangrove trees.  Mangroves are trees that grow in salt water all around south Florida.  These trees make channels and islands for us to paddle through and are shelter to a variety of species. 

 

Evenings upon a secluded beach in the Everglades. 

 

It is not uncommon to see flocks of birds along the shoreline in the Everglades

Paddling through a mangrove labyrinth in the Florida Everglades. 

Making friends in the Everglades!