Georgia > Coastal Region > Glynn County > St. Simons Island

SouthEast Adventure Outfitters has been adventuring in Georgia’s Golden Isles since 1994. Take a kayak tour around St. Simons, Jekyll, Sapelo, Blackbeard and Cumberland Islands as well as the Altamaha and Satilla Rivers. Year-round kayaking trips from 2 hours to 7 days.

SouthEast Adventure has been in business since 1994 - based on St. Simons Island and in Brunswick, Georgia. Pioneering every trip we offer, our company has been integral in promoting and enhancing kayaking throughout the Golden Isles of Georgia.

SouthEast Adventure was started with the goal to provide exceptional kayaking trips through some of the widely unexplored and naturally beautiful areas along Georgia’s coast. Over time, the trips just keep getting better - with new adventures planned every year, and more people interested in sharing our unique perspective and expertise.

Here is a sample of Southeast Adventures trips and experiences.

Brunswick Kayak Tour (about 2 hours)
Learn the basic skills of sea kayaking while exploring the scenic “Marshes of Glynn.” Launching from our private dock, this trip is an easy and informative way to discover why kayaking is one of the fastest growing sports today. Discounts for kids’ groups.

St. Simons Kayak Tour (about 3 hours)
Join our experienced local guides as we discover the magic of sea kayaking. We’ll teach the skills needed to safely enjoy the sport as we watch the abundant wildlife in the marshes and on the beaches of St. Simons and Sea Island. Anyone can enjoy the stable, expedition quality sea-kayaks used on our trips. We take a break on a beautiful remote beach for a little birding and shelling.

Satilla River Day Trip
Cruise the beautiful black waters of one of Georgia’s most pristine rivers. Blinding white sandbars grace every bend. Cypress trees and wildlife abound. This is a mellow river, ideal for families and kids.

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• Read more about SouthEast Adventure Outfitters.

 Georgia > Coastal Region > Bryan County > Richmond Hill

Salty Dawg tours are conducted in a rugged 25+foot, twin engine, Parker Sport Cabin with comfortable seating for 6 passengers, sun awning, a private head and all required safety equipment in excellent working condition.

Enjoy an adventure exploring the marshes, estuaries, creeks, rivers, Intracoastal Waterway and Barrier Islands.  Delight in the antics of dolphin, birds and wildlife. Together, we’ll customize an outing just for you. The SaltyDawg also offers Island Charter service for hunters, birders, campers
and researchers to Georgia’s Barrier Islands.

Captain Hub, Roy Hubbard, is a Savannah native, U.S.C.G. Licensed Captain, University of Georgia Master Coastal Naturalist, U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary, and the American Professional  Captain’s Association and serves on the Advisory Board of Georgia’s Blue Crab Commission.

Peach Hubbard (with Buddy the 4-legged Salty Dawg) is a UGA Master Coastal Naturalist, GAME (Georgia Association of Marine Educators), NMEA (National Marine Educators Association) and serves on the Board of ‘Clean Coast’ and is President of ‘The Dolphin Project’.

Peach and Hub are active with ‘The Dolphin Project’ and ‘Clean Coast’. They are members of the Richmond Hill Historical Society, members of the U.S. Power Squadron/Tybee Light Chapter, the Ogeechee-Canoochee River Keepers, the Navy League / Savannah Chapter,  the U.S. Power Squadron/Tybee Light Chapter, The Nature Conservancy, the Sea Turtle Survival League/C.C.C.,  The Ossabaw Island Foundation,  the Cousteau Ocean Futures Society and several other nature conservation organizations. SaltyDawg Adventures  holds a Special Use Permit issued by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service to conduct tours of Blackbeard and Wassaw National Wildlife Refuges.

SaltyDawg is a rugged 25+foot, twin engine, Parker Sport Cabin with comfortable seating for 6 passengers, sun awning, a private head (toilet) and all required safety equipment in excellent working condition. Parker boats are made in the U.S. and used by NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration), and the USFWS (United States Fish & Wildlife Service).

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• Read more about Salty Dawg Adventures.
• See a map showing Georgia’s major barrier islands.

 Georgia > Coastal Region > McIntosh County > Darien

The Altamaha River is a world of wilderness and wonder. Altamaha Coastal Tours can put you in touch with it.

Experience sea kayaking adventures with Altamaha Coastal Tours in one of the most beautiful and remote areas in the southeast. Located near St. Simon’s Island and 45 minutes south of Savannah, the Altamaha River bio-reserve is a world of wilderness and natural wonder. Bottle-nosed dolphins, wild horses and thousands of sea-birds make this area a best kept secret. Trips range from kayaking through black-water swamps of cypress knees and giant old-growth forests to camping on deserted islands with white sand beaches. Come explore for a half-day excursion or get away for a multi-day adventure in what has been called a “Last Magnificent Place.” Kayak rentals and guided tours are offered year-round on the semi-tropical Georgia coast.

Links:

• Altamaha Coastal Tours
• Altamaha River
• Altamaha Riverkeeper

 Georgia > Coastal Region > Glynn County > Jekyll Island

Georgia Salt Marsh. The salt marsh, such as that found on Georgia’s coast, is the most valuable land in the world for the common good of man. Georgia and South Carolina together have about 50 percent of the salt marsh on the east coast. This Do-It-Yourself Tour gives you an up-close look at this amazing resoruce.

Seemingly barren expanses of grass and mud, at first glance salt marshes appear like wastelands. Look again. The grass fields like those along the Georgia Coast give untold benefits to nature and man. Each acre can produce 20 tons of plant matter annually, far more prolific than any agricultural rival. This biological factory feeds and shelters young shrimp, mollusks, crustaceans and fish; 75 percent of commercial seafood species spend part of their lives in the marshes. Marshes do much for humans, purifying sewage better and cheaper than any man-made facility and generating 20 percent of the world’s oxygen. (more…)

 Georgia > Coastal Region > McIntosh County > Townsend

Wood Storks at Harris Neck. Harris Neck Wildlife Refuge is one of 18 locations on the Colonial Coast Birding Trail that offers exceptional opportunities for birding and wildlife viewing.

The Colonial Coast Birding Trail will provide you with the opportunity to see and enjoy the beauty of a kaleidoscope of birds as well as glimpse the fascinating Georgia Coast, its history and its residents.

Each site along the Colonial Coast Birding Trail is unique. Many sites offer visitors the opportunity to watch birds and visit 18th and 19th century historic places. Other sites are located on lands and waters that were once part of early plantations dedicated to growing rice, indigo and cotton. So, whether you want to see a bald eagle soaring over a coastal river, an endangered wood stork feeding its gawky young, sanderlings chasing the waves on a sandy beach, or a great egret standing motionless in a placid pond, the Colonial Coast Birding Trail has something for you.

 Georgia > Coastal Region > Camden County > St. Marys

Julie and Tom Monahan are co-owners of Up the Creek Xpeditions.

Throughout the year, Up the Creek Expeditions and Outfitters offers a diverse selection of kayak nature tours and specialty trips to many of coastal Georgia and Florida’s most scenic waterways. Up the Creek Xpeditions has many day trips, overnight trips and instructional programs scheduled throughout the year. If your schedule doesn’t match theirs, they can make special arrangements for you or your group.

Up the Creek Xpeditions is always researching and exploring new places within the area. Come and explore your world in a fun and unique way!

Co-owner Tom Monahan is an accomplished business owner with 20 years experience in the banking and finance area. He is an avid outdoor enthusiast who has guided day and overnight trips for four years throughout the Southeast. In addition, Tom instructs kayaking classes.

Julie Monahan is the other co-owner of Up The Creek Xpeditions. She is an accomplished human resource professional with 20 years of diversified experience. In that career, she enjoyed developing and implementing corporate training programs. Julie is also a certified Zenger-Miller, Front Line Leadership instructor.

Up the Creek Xpeditions Services, Trips and Features include:

• Kayak trips
• Lessons
• Rentals
• Team Building
• Youth Camp
• Store

Links:

• Read more about Up the Creek Xpeditions.

 Georgia > Coastal Region > Charlton County > Folkston

Okefenokee Pastimes provides paddling tours, motorboat tours, camping, outfitting, cabin rentals, plus an arts and crafts gift shop, in the Okefenokee Swamp, one of Georgia’s most remarkable natural areas.

Okefenokee Pastimes is a private business located at the East Entrance (the headquarters) of the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge, offering excellent guided nature tours of Okefenokee swamp, rivers, and coastal habitats; exceptional overnight accommodations by way of clean cozy comfortable cabins; outfitting and shuttles with kayak and canoe rentals; camping and RV hook-up spots; and Swamp Gas Gallery, an art and craft gift shop. The owners of Okefenokee Pastimes are a couple, two progressive thinking native southerners, who have been around the block a few times - a Georgian and a Floridian who take tremendous pride in Okefenokee Pastimes, their creation. We are unconventional in our approach to many things, such as advertising and traditional corporate business attitudes and techniques. We do not invest in the overpriced advertising associated with many guide books or meaningless alliances and/or other inflexible and obsolete information modes. Those things rarely seem to give an accurate picture of the reality. We have arrived at our determinations by extensive travel experiences ourselves, because we always seek but rarely find places similar to our business Okefenokee Pastimes. The Internet and our conspicuous website location on the information super highway is the main vehicle we use to tell people what our business is all about. In addition, we possess a very prominent physical location in relation to the Okefenokee Swamp and St. Mary’s River. Okefenokee Pastimes is simply two individuals providing something very special that is not cheaply or easily advertised. Our web site okefenokee.com is the best conveyance we know of, for informative communications. Over the years (more than 10 now), we’ve noticed that the individuals who used the internet to gather information about us, not relying solely on printed or guidebook information are almost always satisfied with their Okefenokee Pastimes experience. Information is very powerful and we try to help you empower yourself with our website’s information.

Okefenokee Pastimes is located on 14 private, wooded acres offering the closest accommodations, and in the opinion of many, the best accommodations available around the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge. Okefenokee Pastimes is the place to be if you appreciate a cozy, comfy, nice and very clean cabin (your own personal independent charming little home in the woods) that features convenience, a natural rural setting, reasonable rates, peaceful surroundings, clean grounds, and a well-run, privately owned and operated business. We offer cabin accommodations, guided tours, outfitting, camping and a tiny art and craft gift shop. We have quite a bit that we do here and we do all of it well.

Okefenokee Pastimes Services

• Okefenokee Swamp Outfitting
• Motorboat Tours
• Paddling Tours
• Packaged Tours
• Lodging Accommodations

Links:
Read more about Okefenokee Pastimes.

 Georgia > Coastal Region > Bryan County > Ellabelle

The Ogeechee Outpost on the Ogeechee River offers a variety of outdoor experiences on this Georgia blackwater river.

Ogeechee Outpost is a family-owned canoe and kayak business offering affordable rentals on the Ogeechee River. We offer quality boats, vests and paddles for safe trips down the river.

Ogeechee Outpost Trips and Services

• Day Trips
• Overnight Trips
• ACA Canoeing Instruction

Day Trips from Ogeechee Outpost

• Canoe $25.00 - Kayak $25.00
• Short Trip 6.2 miles about 3 hours - canoe $35.00, kayak $30.00
• Long Trip 12.2 miles about 5 1/2 hours - canoe $40.00, kayak $35.00

Overnight Paddles

• Overnighter paddle to sandbar from Ogeechee Outpost and camp for $50.00 per canoe
• Overnighter from Short trip 6.2 miles $70.00

Wilderness Adventure Camping Expedition

• Paddle 6 miles to camp and another 6 miles the next day. $80.00 per canoe

Canoe and Stay

• Canoe and stay in the fully furnished Ogeechee River Cabin Fully Furnished - $85.00 per day.

Links:

• Read more about Ogeechee Outpost.
• Read more about the Ogeechee River.
• Read Suzanne Welander’s Ogeechee River paddling guide.
• Download a four-color poster of the Ogeechee River.
• See a photo essay of an Ogeechee-Canoochee Riverkeeper canoe trip on the Ogeechee, including an essay by OCR member Anna Thibeau about her first paddling experience.

 Georgia > Coastal Region > Chatham County > Savannah

Old Savannah’s Paula Deen tour is the newest and promises to be one of the most popular tours in Old Savanah’s selection of tours. Here, the famous cook and television personality passes out cookies to lucky Savannah visitors in  front of her Lady and Sons restaurant. Old Savannah Tours says that was a lucky, once-in-a-lifetime event, and not a part of a regularly scheduled tour.

Old Savannah tours is the only locally owned and operated Trolley Tour Company in Savannah. For over 30 years, we have been providing both overview and on-off tours of this beautiful historic city.

We look forward to providing you with the most stress free, informative experience possible. Our guides pride themselves on their knowledge and experience. You will be provided with a complete professionally guided tour of one of the largest Urban National Historic Landmarks in the United States. You will be transported through more than two and a half centuries of history and see Savannah as the early colonists saw it. You will ride along cobblestone paved streets beneath moss-draped oaks and experience the “Old South” with its stately mansions, beautiful squares, romantic riverfront and abundance of artifacts. Take a comprehensive look at Savannah’s fascinating past, including “Book” highlights and lots of fun tidbits.

Our newest and most popular tour is the Paula Deen Tour. You have got to check out this tour that promises to be a memorable experience.

Links;

• Read more about Old Savannah Tours.

 Georgia > Coastal Region > Chatham County > Savannah

Savannah Riverboats. The 600 passenger Savannah River Queen and the 600 passenger Georgia Queen are triple-decker, red, white and blue vessels that offer a variety of different tours all throughout the harbor.

Savannah is a river town, so what better way to get an overview of her harbor and port than to cruise with the River Street Riverboat Company! The 600 passenger Savannah River Queen and the 600 passenger Georgia Queen are triple-decker, red, white and blue vessels that offer a variety of different tours all throughout the harbor.

Stepping on a riverboat is like stepping back in time to an age where life moved more sedately and style and elegance were priorities. Take a break from the everyday and indulge yourself with a riverboat cruise. Both the 600 passenger Savannah River Queen and the 600 passenger Georgia Queen are climate-controlled, so you can step inside from those humid Savannah days to cool off or head out onto the open-air third deck for fantastic sightseeing along the river.

Discover the perfect cruise for your getaway as you choose from the popular narrated sightseeing cruise, dinner entertainment cruise, Saturday luncheon cruise, Sunday brunch cruise, Monday night gospel entertainment cruise, Thursday Murder-a-float cruise or our moonlight entertainment cruise.

Want to bring a group of 25 or more on board? We offer discounted rates for groups! Contact our group sales department for more details.

All of our boats operate under United States Coast Guard regulations and conform to rigid requirements for passenger safety.

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• Read more about Savannah Riverboat Cruises.