Dolphin Boat Tours and Family Shark Fishing

Please call our sister company at 843-684-1911 for information and reservations for boat and fishing tours. FOR KAYAK TOURS YOUR CAN CALL US AT 843-684-1910 OR RESERVE RIGHT HERE ON THIS SITE. THANKS!!

Also visit the Dolphin Discoveries website directly for more information and pictures. www.dolphindiscoverieshiltonhead.com

(Please call 843-684-1910 FOR KAYAK TOURS OR 843-684-1911 for any of boat tours)

Call 843-684-1911 for boat Tour Info

Guaranteed Dolphin Boat Tours

Our 1 hour 45 minute dolphin boat tours depart all throughout the day. Our dolphin boat tours have a dolphins guarantee! (See below for details) Our boats are 22 foot Carolina Skiffs with a sun canopy. Therefore shade or sun is available for seating. It’s rated by the manufacture for 14 people but we take 6 people maximum so that our tours are always small groups! (Be sure to ask how many people will be on the boat before booking with other companies) Many other companies run groups of 12 or often many more so it’s rare to get the opportunity to view these magnificent creatures in such a personalized setting. We also charge abit less than many companies running shorter tours than ours so call to book with us today! 

Everyone on board will have plenty of room to get to the best viewing area for seeing the dolphins and for taking unobstructed photos of these fun and friendly creatures.

(Sorry, we do limit the boat to 6 people regardless of ages and size of the passengers) This tour is a completely different experience than the big “head boats” that take 30 to 50 people and do a structured route where dolphins may or may not be seen.

Remember, we do guarantee dolphins on our tours! We go to where the dolphins are, and often turn off the boat to enjoy the peacefulness of the area while being able to hear the exhale of the dolphins as the come to the surface.

Quite often the dolphins are just as interested in us as we are in them and might swim right up to the boat for great photo opportunities. A zoom lense is not needed on our tours! This truly is an experience to remember!! 

PLEASE CALL 843-684-1911 FOR SCHEDULING AND PRICING.

To book a boat tour switch to our sister website at: www.dolphindiscoverieshiltonhead.com

call 843-684-1911 for Boat tour info

3 Hour Dolphin Watch And Beachcombing Tour

This tour adds extra time to our guaranteed dolphin tour. Generally we spend the extra time exploring your choice of Vanishing Island or the beaches of Daufuskie Island.

Or take your extra time to keep enjoying the dolphins, it’s your choice. Vanishing island is actually a big sandbar off the point of Hilton Head where sand dollars, starfish, and beautiful sea shells often collect that rarely can be found on the Hilton Head beaches because somebody else has gotten to them first.

Most days we don’t see anyone else as we explore Vanishing Island unless maybe another boat has stopped by. Vanishing Island is only accessible by boat. Daufuski Island has a long stretch of secluded white sand beach where many of the same shells can be found.

Again we often don’t see anyone else on this beach. (Remember, we do not collect anything that is still alive but you are welcome to collect the shells, sand dollars and starfish that have been bleached white by the sun.)

Seeing dolphins and exploring secluded beaches will bring memories that will last for years!

To book a boat tour switch to our sister website at: www.dolphindiscoverieshiltonhead.com

Call 843-684-1911 for Boat Tour Info

Sunset Cruise (2 hours 15 minutes)

BRING A PICNIC!

Join us on a sunset cruise. It’s 2 hours and 15 minutes of whatever you want to do. The Captain will search for dolphins if you’d like or follow along behind a shrimp boat while they pull in their catch for the night. Maybe you just want to sit and relax while enjoying the peacefulness of being on the water as the sun goes down.

It’s your time to enjoy however you’d like. Bring appetizers and a bottle of wine or pizza and sodas if you prefer. We usually start at 6:30pm in the summer months and end just after the sun has set. It’s a great way to end the day!

To book a boat tour switch to our sister website at: www.dolphindiscoverieshiltonhead.com

Fireworks Tours (3 hours)

This tour is 3 hours. It starts at 6:45 on Tuesday evenings only. We will explore the Calibogue sound where we will dolphin watch for the first two hours of the tour and then we will come back into Broad Creek and close to the Shelter Cove Harbor to watch the summer Tuesday night fireworks.

It’s a beautiful evening on the water and there’s not a better way to take in the fireworks than this. Bring drinks and snacks if you’d like.

Fireworks Tours are private charter rate only. The tour is 3 hours. It will only be you and your family aboard the boat so feel free to bring drinks and snacks to enjoy as you watch the fireworks!  We spend about 2 hours dolphin watching and then head to the waterways just outside of Shelter Cove harbor for a great view of the fireworks display!

To book a boat tour switch to our sister website at: www.dolphindiscoverieshiltonhead.com

Call 843-684-1911 for Boat tour info

Family Shark Fishing Excursion

Catching Sharks!! What else could be more fun for the kids?! Well…maybe the stories they get to tell their friends when they get back home. This tour is designed for families with kids. A five year old will enjoy this just as well as your harder to please teenagers. It’s fun for everyone! This has become one of our most popular trips!

Our goal is to take you to the shark holes where the 2 and 3 footers are aplenty. The occasional 4 or 5 footer we will bring to the boat for a look and cut loose. One tour last year caught over 30 sharks! On the average summer tour we catch 5 or 6. That’s probably the low end of average!

We are not out to catch monster sharks but instead the sizes that will put up a good fight and are also manageable enough for the captain to bring on board for a few quick pictures before we put them back in the water to live another day. Yes, this is catch and release so nothing loses its life over our fun and photos. This tour is 3 hours. All bait, tackle, and licensing are included.

This is a private boat tour for just you and your family. It is not a big “head boat” with 40 lines in the water where you hope it’s your line that the fish bites. We take 6 people maximum and fish a maximum of 4 rods at a time. Catching sharks often means catching more than one at a time so any more than 4 lines in the water will allow the sharks to tangle everything up. We want to keep all the lines free so we can catch as many as we can!!

Feel free to bring a cooler with sandwiches, snacks and drinks. Of course your camera too!! There’s nothing more fun than this!

To book a boat tour switch to our sister website at: www.dolphindiscoverieshiltonhead.com

Pricing

On Hold Until Further Notice.

Family Crabbing Excursion

Catch yourself some dinner! Or just come out for the fun of watching the kids net some blue crabs. This tour is 1 hour and 45 minutes and we spend that time in the salt water estuary in the center of Hilton Head.

While we crab we often see dolphins swimming by as well as Blue Herons or Egrets that like to stand along the banks and watch what we are doing. It’s a crabbing and wildlife excursion that is fun for all ages.

We take a maximum of 6 people on each tour so everyone has their own net to catch as many crabs as you can! The boat has a sun canopy so you can sit in the sun or shade.

Bring a book to read and relax while the kids net crabs or bring snacks and drinks to enjoy your time on the water however you would like.

Pricing: Crabbing has not been all that consistant this season so this tour is on hold until further notice.

(**Family crabbing tours are tentatively on hold because of the slow crab catch we are having so far this year. But there have been TONS OF DOLPHINS and lots of sharks caught on the shark fishing tours so come join us on one of those. Thanks!)