Cruise - View - Photograph Alaskan Brown Bears from our 80ft. Startdust Cruiser. You will find no other small wildlife cruise offering brown bear viewing in all of Katmai Parks fresh water lakes. Located on Naknek Lake our wildlife tours visit Brooks River Falls, Margot creek and surrounding unnamed coves and rivers where the largest concentration of brown bears and salmon congregate each summer without crowds. Our all inclusive brown bear viewing cruises include unlimited wildlife photography, fishing, kayaking, hiking and beach combing our guests can be assured of a elite wildlife cruise.
Nose the bow of your chartered small ship right up to the beach at Brooks River Camp. As seen on national TV, big bruins battle over territory atop river falls as salmon navigate upriver and attempt to jump over the waterfall.
Spend your day viewing and photographing brown bears, bores, cubs and sows from the famous Brooks River Falls viewing platform or just relax on the top deck of the Bear Necessity and watch bears comb the beach and swim in Naknek Lake. Plan to bring extra film, memory, batteries because you will surely need them on this top rated Alaskan Brown Bear Viewing small boat based excursion. Because of our unique situation on the Bear Necessity when Brooks Falls is busy during the peak season we have the option to cruise down the lake to other locations where fishing and bear viewing opportunities continue without the crowds. 
If hiking is something you like you have the option to take daily hikes with your professional private guide into small remote streams and creek mouths for even more exciting Bear encounters giving you the opportunity to photograph these magnificent animals in there wild habitat.
Our camp comes with over 20 years of Alaskan Bear Viewing, Fishing and Bush experience our veteran staff of bear viewing and fishing guides will take you to the heart of Katmai as it has never been seen before giving you a special look inside the brown bears world a experience you are unable to get with most other tours.
Our Boat the Bear Necessity is your instrument which to explore the most untamed and wild places of Alaska. Here you will have the opportunity to view and photograph Alaskan brown bears undisturbed. Our Alaskan brown bear viewing guides and naturalists live inside Katmai National Park & Preserve where the brown bears superhighway is carved into the landscape and are ready to make your Alaska bear viewing tour surpass your wildest dreams. During our Alaskan brown bear viewing tour you will have the chance to take world-class pictures and professional grade movies that will amaze all.
There is a natural pull that we feel, just like the bears, to the rivers and lakes of Alaska. Our Alaska nature and bear viewing tours appeal to those escaping and vacationing to a place ideal for the romantic individual exercising the art of nature photography and to others just wanting to pick up a little grace through these wonderful awakenings in nature.
Bear Viewing Cruises