July 19th - 25th , 2026
7 Day Expedition Tour
Please plan on arriving the afternoon of the day before departure (July 18) and leaving the morning after the tour ends (July 26)
Please contact us if these dates are not suitable for your vacation plans. Custom tours are possible.
Nestled comfortably within Notre Dame Bay, along Newfoundland’s Northeast coast, is the Bay of Exploits. Stretching from Twillingate to Northern Head and as far south as Botwood, the bay is the final destination for the waters of the mighty Exploits, Newfoundland’s largest river. With nearly 1000 square km and over 30 islands, it presents some of the finest sea kayaking that Newfoundland has to offer.
Join Adventures Newfoundland on a 7-day, 6-night expedition that will take you on a trip of a lifetime. The Bay of Exploits is awash with natural and cultural history, and who better to learn it from than local guides who call this place home. Much more than just a sightseeing tour, our story of resettlement, our dialect, our traditional cuisine, and our stories will captivate you from beginning to end. Also included is a one-night stay in our Light Keepers Inn located at Surgeon Cove Head on historic Exploits Island. This tour is packed with activities and is truly a week of experiential tourism at its finest.
Take a look at some of our activities:
** If the above dates don’t work for you, please contact us and we may have alternative dates available.
Take a look at some of our activities:
- Hike to a remote lighthouse on Exploits Island and spend the night at our Light Keeper’s Inn. Experience what it must have been like to be a light keeper in a major shipping lane along a rugged coastline. Take a hot shower, enjoy our traditional cuisine and get pampered by our staff.
- Participate in our recreational cod fishery and enjoy a meal of one of the North Atlantic’s finest offerings. Learn how significant this fishery was to the growth of NL, from the salt cod trade to its total collapse in the 1990s.
- Harvest and feast on wild blue mussels.
- Paddle the same waters and learn about the plight of NL’s indigenous but now (believed to be) extinct Beothuk Indians. The Bay of Exploits is well known for the tragic story of their demise.
- Visit what were once thriving fishing villages on remote islands and learn about our famous “resettlement” program first implement by the Smallwood government in the 1960s.
- There’s an excellent chance of whale viewing!
- And of course, as mentioned above, immerse yourselves in our dialect, our cuisine and our stories.
We hope to have sparked your interest! Feel free to contact us for more information or to sign up.
Trip Cost:
$2,595 / per person + 15% HST
Included in our price:
- Kayaks and required equipment
- All group camping gear including tents
- All food
- One night’s accommodation on the evening before departure and one night’s accommodation on the evening of the take out.
- Transportation (if required) from Gander airport to the first night’s accommodation/launch site and from the last nights’ accommodation/take out to Gander airport