Alaska is a photographer dream destination with scenery and wildlife found only in this remote corner of the world. Alaska still has vast unspoiled areas of natural beauty with rugged snowcapped mountains,  spectacular glaciers and rolling tundra and meadows. Lakes, rivers and streams filled with fish. Arguably Alaska has the most productive oceans waters and scenic shorelines in the world. Great portions of Alaska still remains as wild today as it did thousands of years ago.

Our large comfortable vessel travels and anchors along the mysterious shorelines of Katmai National Park. The park is known through out the world as having the greatest concentrations of brown bears in the world. Katmai was declared a national monument in 1918 to preserve the living laboratory of its cataclysmic 1912 volcanic eruption, particularly the Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes. The intervening years have seen the need to protect the last great place for the giant brown bear. To protect this magnificent animal and its varied habitat, the boundaries were extended over the years, and in 1980 the area was designated a national park and preserve.

Katmai park looms vast and the great bulk of it eludes all but a few persistent visitors. Enormous lakes, rives and island studded bays remain virtual unexplored year after year. It is here in this magical and pristine environment that the coastal explorer takes but a select handful of appreciative guests each year.

Here is a sample list of animals and birds that call Katmai Park home:

Aboard our unique boat you will also see many marine mammals:

The Katmai coastline, lakes marshes and wetlands serve as nesting and migration routes for many bird species including:

The rich environment in Katmai hosts more than 40 species of song birds while the seacoast and rock pinnacles and treetops provide nesting sites for bald eagles, hawks falcons and owls.