Olympic Kayak Tours, and Kayak Nisqually

08/16/2024

08/15/2024

Thanks Luke!

★★★★★ "We had a lovely time on our sea-kayaking tour led by Sam. We were a group of 4, and thus had two 2-person kayaks for us. Despite over 7-8 kayaks, Sam was informative and communicative throughout and we didn’t feel left out at all. After a thorough orientation, he gave us timely bi...

08/11/2024

We just had a last-minute cancellation for four people off of our bioluminescence tour tonight. So book them while they’re hot. Link in comments.

08/06/2024

08/03/2024

Our naturalist-led wildlife watching sea kayak tours at Fort Flagler are moving back to be available 7 days a week!

08/02/2024

We have two great locations near Port Townsend, with two unique sets of offerings. Head to www.OlympicKayakTours.com to learn more and to make a reservation!

At Fort Worden State Park, we offer rentals of sit-on-top recreational kayaks (solos & doubles) and stand up paddleboards! We now also have a few bikes! We also offer short two-hour kayak tours along the Fort Worden & Port Townsend sea front. We are currently open Wednesday - Sunday 12 pm - 5pm. Solo kayaks and SUPs are $30 for the first hourr + $20 per additional hour, doubles are $50 for the first hour and $35 for each additional hour. The bicycles are $20 / hr all prices are + tax. We do sometimes have to make closures due to weather safety or other considerations so checking out the calendars at www.olympickayaktours.com will always have the most up to date information.

At Fort Flagler State Park, we offer ecological & educational wildlife watching & night time bioluminescence (aka 'phospheresence') sea kayak tours in our excellent expedition sea kayaks. We also offer advanced sea kayak rentals to those with Sea Kayak Certifications. We are open by appointment for tours which are timed to take advantage of tidal currents, so exact timing varies daily. We have our own method for predicting when bioluminescence will be present, and we've successfully had good biolume on 100% of our bioluminescence tours since 2020. We have recently added more dates and offerings, including for bioluminesence tours! We have lots of mint new harbor seal pups, developing gull and black oyster catcher chicks, and harbor porpoises and even larger whales like orcas regularly swim through our routes. We are premier wildlife watching and environmental education sea kayak tour company.

Stay tuned for private & small group kayak & SUP instruction and group classes coming soon!

Head to www.OlympicKayakTours.com to learn more and book a tour, rental, or lesson!

For our eco-adventure wildlife watching and bioluminescence tours at Fort Flagler State Park, you can also reach us by phone or text at 360-453-7135. For our kayak and stand up paddleboard rentals and town tours at Fort Worden State Park, you can reach us by phone or text at 360-302-0969.

07/20/2024

Nisqually! We love to see it

07/17/2024

To learn more and to book head to www.OlympicKayakTours.com

We are pleased to announce we will be re-opening for unguided rentals at Fort Worden State Park (across from the Port Townsend Marine Science Center and Batch Brothers) this Friday 7/19/24!!! We will be open from Noon - 5pm Wednesdays - Sundays weather permitting. You can find our most up to date schedule for weather closures at www.olympickayaktours.com We will have our 1 & 2 person sit-on-top kayaks, as well as Stand Up Paddleboards, and a few bicycles for rent. For one person sit-on-tops & stand up paddleboards rates are $30 for the first hour and $20 for each additional hour. For 2 person kayak rentals (covers both people) rates are $50 for the first hour and $35 for each additional hour. Bikes are $20 per hour or $80 for the day. More information can be found at https://www.olympickayaktours.com/fortwordenrentals

Also, our revered wildlife watching and bioluminesence tours in expedition sea kayaks out of Fort Flagler State Park are ongoing! We have added additional bioluminesence space with more guides, so if you couldn’t get in before you may be able to now! All tours are by reservation at https://www.olympickayaktours.com/fortflagler

Additional sit-on-top tours out of Fort Worden will be announced later in the summer so watch this space!

Please help this small business thrive by spreading the word to your friends and community!

07/17/2024

To learn more and to book head to www.OlympicKayakTours.com

We are pleased to announce we will be re-opening for unguided rentals at Fort Worden State Park (across from the Port Townsend Marine Science Center and Batch Brothers) this Friday 7/19/24!!! We will be open from Noon - 5pm Wednesdays - Sundays weather permitting. You can find our most up to date schedule for weather closures at www.olympickayaktours.com We will have our 1 & 2 person sit-on-top kayaks, as well as Stand Up Paddleboards, and a few bicycles for rent. For one person sit-on-tops & stand up paddleboards rates are $30 for the first hour and $20 for each additional hour. For 2 person kayak rentals (covers both people) rates are $50 for the first hour and $35 for each additional hour. Bikes are $20 per hour or $80 for the day. More information can be found at https://www.olympickayaktours.com/fortwordenrentals Rentals can be made either by walk-up, first come-first served or reserved on our website in advance!

Also, our revered wildlife watching and bioluminesence tours in expedition sea kayaks out of Fort Flagler State Park are ongoing! We have added additional bioluminesence space with more guides, so if you couldn't get in before you may be able to now! All tours are by reservation at https://www.olympickayaktours.com/fortflagler

Additional sit-on-top tours out of Fort Worden will be announced later in the summer so watch this space!

Please help this small business thrive by spreading the word to your friends and community!

07/13/2024

FOX 13's AJ Janavel takes a trip to the South Puget Sound to learn more about Washington's newest shark.

07/02/2024

We also just had 4 spots open on our afternoon wildlife watching tour at Fort Flagler this Sunday afternoon. Head to www.olympickayaktours.com

07/02/2024

Hello, we just had two people cancel off our full bioluminescence tour this Sunday July 7th for people looking to go out!

06/24/2024

We are opening at Fort Flagler on the 4th of July! Our tour schedule is available at www.olympickayaktours.com. We base all our tours on the tidal currents, so they change each day! We will be open Thursdays-Sundays.

We will let you know when there is more information about unguided kayak and SUP rentals, and tours returning to Fort Worden.

06/11/2024

05/21/2024

Announcing two new tours added for this weekend!!! A half-day wildlife watching tour from 12-3pm $79 per person https://fareharbor.com/embeds/book/kayaknisqually/items/250371/?full-items=yes&flow=444101

And a BIOLUMINESCENCE NIGHT PADDLE $119 per person from 8-11pm https://fareharbor.com/embeds/book/kayaknisqually/items/250368/?full-items=yes&flow=444101

Please note for the biolume tour, yes we have a pretty full moon, but moonrise isn't til midnight so it's effectively a new moon for our purposes. Also, as always we will be closely monitoring the weather and if the weather is either unsafe to go out, or we won't be seeing biolume we will cancel the tour and either fully refund or rebook customers onto another trip later in the season. We have over 99% success rate on biolume tours since 2017, ask our competitors what their success rates are 😉. Check out our reviews on your favorite review website to see what other people are saying.

We open for regular tours and rentals staring the 4th of July!!

04/23/2024

🌸💜🌸 Tuesday, April 23rd- GROUP ONE ORCAS (Admiralty inlet)
Big thanks to Trevor for his message this morning. Please let us know if you spot them!
🐬 08:17- Just got a call that there were at least 2 killer whales just off of the north end of Marrowstone [Island] near Rat Island. I was told they were likely milling at the time.
Trevor Tillman
DM
📍 GIVE THEM SPACE - ALL TYPES VESSELS/WATERCRAFT/OBJECTS follow approach distances.
📍 SEE in comments: info & link (laws/guidelines, educational, AND how to report violators)

04/14/2024

Olympic Kayak Tours founder Sam has spent the winter and spring on the water studying herring breeding across puget sound. Ask any herring questions you may have on your next tour with www.olympickayaktours.com

This is "Young of year salmon feeding on newly hatched herring larvae nearshore March 2024" by Coastal Watershed Institute on Vimeo, the home for high…

04/14/2024

First tour of the season. Book a sea kayak adventure to meet the local wildlife at olympickayaktours.com

04/06/2024

OlympicKayakTours.com
We are happy to announce our 2024 season! We will be returning to Fort Flagler state park. We are offering our much loved wildlife watching sea kayaking adventures led by expert naturalist guides, as well as our night time bioluminescence tours that have encountered biolume on over 99% of tours since 2017, and 100% since 2020!
You can learn more and find our schedule at OlympicKayakTours.com
We will be offering tours Thursdays-Sundays from early July to mid-October. For groups of 6 or more we may be able to offer kayak tours before July 4th on Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays, reach out to [email protected] if you want to schedule a tour!

Unfortunately we were unable to find good storage in Thurston County and are not planning to operate our Kayak Nisqually routes this year. We are also phasing out our unguided rentals of sit-on-top kayaks and stand-up-paddleboards that we offered last summer.

Olympic Kayak Tours & Kayak Nisqually is also for sale either as the whole business or in its constituent locations of Kayak Nisqually, Fort Flagler State Park, or Fort Worden State Park. We will also be offering a lot of kayaks and additional equipment for sale soon!

04/02/2024

We’re no longer Olympic Kayak Tours, we are now Olympic Jetski Rentals and Adventures.

03/07/2024

New in our magazine Salish Sea Currents: For years now, scientists have been braving the cold winter waters of Puget Sound to study one of the region's most enigmatic and threatened seabirds, the marbled murrelet. Writer and biologist Eric Wagner recently joined a murrelet expedition led by the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife and brought back these notes from the field.
https://www.eopugetsound.org/magazine/winter-studies-focus-on-threatened-marbled-murrelets

12/27/2023

Nice going Maya!

12/22/2023

Hello and Happy Solstice!
Kayak Nisqually will be coming back stronger in 2024, with tours in and around South Puget Sound, including our renowned wildlife watching with interpretative guides & night time bioluminescence tours. Our Kayak Nisqually calendar will be populated soon.

Our gift cards are available now for last minute Christmas gifts at www.kayaknisqually.com and a direct link at https://fareharbor.com/embeds/book/kayaknisqually/items/73073/?full-items=yes&flow=371

Unfortunately, we are not selling gift cards for Olympic Kayak Tours operations out of Fort Flagler State Park or Fort Worden State Park at this time.

Happy holidays everyone,
& "the only constant is change, ride the currents."

08/21/2023

We’ve been having fabulous bioluminescence up on Marrowstone Island lately & we have tours open tonight Monday the 21st and tomorrow night that still have room open.

Fort Flagler is located 30 minutes drive from Port Townsend and an equal drive time as Port Townsend from Seattle, Tacoma, Olympia, and Port Angeles. Fort Flagler boasts beautiful scenery & views, as well as historic buildings. The waters around Fort Flagler team with wildlife including an impor.....

08/19/2023

Nisqually folks and south sound folks! We still have availability on our day tour of the Nisqually delta and reach tomorrow. Cross the delta and sound and see all the wildlife! $99 per person! More details here!

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