Door County Kayak Tours

 

UPDATES: Hiring!

 

Hiring:

 
 
 

Traveling Kayak Guide


 

Guide Benefits

pet friendly, we love animals

travel while doing what you love!

Get Strong! Get Tan! Work outside! Meet fun, adventurous people! Benefits include access to company outdoor recreation gear on a space available basis (and according to skills), pro-deals on many brands of outdoor gear, free kayak trips for family/friends, time to learn how to kayak, garden, sail, and kitesurf and the chance to work with a fun, passionate, creative group of individuals.

Kayak Guide Job Description

We hire self-motivated, confident, creative, inspiring individuals! You possess strong leadership abilities in outdoor group situations. Full-time guides will lead tours multiple times per week (see our Guide Duties) in the local Door County waters. Guides give paddling instruction, lead safe tours according to company guidelines and provide interesting, funny, and informative narratives. Guides invoke laughter, insight, patience, strength, and flexibility in the kayaking guests.

help others enjoy kayaking as much as you do!

you will travel to different places depending on the season to continue being a kayak guide. New Orleans, Door County, Wisconsin, and Austin, Texas just to name a few.

Pay: $15-20/hr. Tips average $120-200/tour

Education: highschool or equivalent required

Language: english (required)

Job type: full time, seasonal 

 

How to Prepare:

We realize that many of you do not have much kayak guiding experience or certifications. Past experience is not mandatory, but we will not hesitate to let you go if you are not confident in your abilities and confident in surprise scenarios in which you will engage during training. Fear not, start studying, reading, and watching YouTube videos about outdoor education, specifically kayak related, and start playing in your school pool now!

Our training program is intensive, the scenarios engage all your senses and any preparedness before will show during training. If invited to training, we will present you with some engaging readings, and ask you to bring something you love to share/teach at training

Mandatory Preparations:

  • First Aid / CPR Certifications by training date.

  • Be legally able to work in the United States.

  • Read up on Door County, kayaking skills, & group leadership skills.

  • Join our Facebook page.

  • Continue to converse with us on Facebook, email, and Google chat.

  • Sign up for a Gmail account.

  • Obtain PFD and guide gear.

 

Additional Information About Door County Kayak Tours

Play. Work. Relax. Enjoy.

It is not about me; it is the guides who make your experience memorable! Our guides work with us long-term, even in our very seasonal industry. Our top-notch equipment, timely itineraries, and picturesque photo opportunities attract extraordinary guides — many of whom are highly sought after in the industry and who have stayed with us for years. Even guides who travel to work in other areas often return to Door County Kayak Tours, LLC. for the same reason: We love what we do.