Is anyone aware of any bear viewing tours strictly by boat out of either Homer or Kenai - or do they all first fly to the destination?

I asked the same question on another forum and someone was nice enough to post this listing of bears in Alaska and how to get to them:
http://www.explorenorth.com/library/...r_viewing.html

Another good way to view bears is to rent a cabin up at Tahoe Pines at Lake Tahoe, and the night before the morning of trash pick-up, stay up and watch. The bears, though usually in singles, often enough appear with baby bear in tow. It's pretty cool. And the best time is in late summer or fall.

Another good place for bear viewing is Yosemite National Park. The campsite lockers there have heavy link chains on them to keep the bears out, but that doesn't deter them. Frequently, you can see them up close.

But Alaska works, too.

I'm interested in the answer to this too. Does anybody have personal experience with bear viewing tours by boat out of Homer or elswhere on the peninsula?

Sorry, no bear tours by boat from Kenai Peninsula including Homer. Great tour from Homer by a floatplane with Emerald Air Services.

I just did the bear viewing out of Homer on 6/4. We flew out of the lke by the spit and it took about 1 hour to get to our location. Very fortuante that we located a dead baby whale on the beach surrounded by bears(big brown bears)got as close as 20yds with some and it was a great picture day. No boats to view.