Dolphin Sanctuary Kayak Tour Adelaide
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Dolphin Sanctuary Kayak Tour Adelaide
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Ages 9-80, max of 16 per group
Duration: 3h
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Meets animal welfare guidelines
Live guide: English
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- Kayak, Life jacket and Paddle
- Waterproof bag
- Skilled and professional guide
- Private facilities with shaded area with seating and toilets
- Filtered fresh water for top ups
- Sun screen
- Private locked car parking area
- It is essential you arrive 15 minutes prior to start time.
- Start:
- Angas Inlet Boat Club, LOT 204 Garden Island Rd, Garden Island SA 5015, Australia10 minute drive from central Port Adelaide and it is essential to arrive 15 minutes prior to tour start time.
End:This activity ends back at the meeting point. - Not wheelchair accessible
If you have questions about accessibility, we’d be happy to help. Just call the number below and reference the product code: 231026P1- Confirmation will be received at time of booking
- Not recommended for travellers with back problems
- No heart problems or other serious medical conditions
- Travellers should have a moderate physical fitness level
- Essential: Arrival time is 15 minutes prior to start time
- Not recommended for travelers with shoulder problems
- This experience requires good weather. If it’s cancelled due to poor weather, you’ll be offered a different date or a full refund
- This experience requires a minimum number of travellers. If it’s cancelled because the minimum isn’t met, you’ll be offered a different date/experience or a full refund
- This tour/activity will have a maximum of 16 travellers
- For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours in advance of the start date of the experience.
- If you have questions about this tour or need help making your booking, we’d be happy to help. Just call the number below and reference the product code: 231026P1
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- LOT 204 Garden Island Rd, Garden Island SA 5015, Australia10 minute drive from central Port Adelaide and it is essential to arrive 15 minutes prior to tour start time.
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Gary S
Stanford-Le-Hope, UK16 contributions
May 2024 • Family
We were on a flying visit to Adelaide in order to visit family and do some carefully chosen tourist things. We were so glad that we chose to do the Dolphin Sanctuary Kayaking Tour!
We opted for the 3 hour guided tour and our guide (Mitch) was awesome! We saw some wonderful wildlife and had dolphins swimming near us several times 🤗. The route took us deep into the incredible mangroves and the tour culminated it getting up close to some historical shipwrecks - each with an interesting story behind them that our guide expertly articulated.
I thoroughly recommend doing this tour - whether you’re just visiting or a resident who’s just not got round to doing it yet!
We opted for the 3 hour guided tour and our guide (Mitch) was awesome! We saw some wonderful wildlife and had dolphins swimming near us several times 🤗. The route took us deep into the incredible mangroves and the tour culminated it getting up close to some historical shipwrecks - each with an interesting story behind them that our guide expertly articulated.
I thoroughly recommend doing this tour - whether you’re just visiting or a resident who’s just not got round to doing it yet!
Written 31 May 2024
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thank you so much for your lovely review Gary, we very much appreciate you taking time to post it. It does sound like you got to see a lot within the Dolphin Sanctuary and we are thrilled you had great tour with Mitch. Thank you also for the recommendation and we hope to see you again some day in the future.
Written 26 June 2024
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Trisstie
Adelaide, Australia862 contributions
Our family of six (including 2 grandparents) took the 3 hour kayak guided tour from Angas Inlet Boat Club Port Adelaide. Our guides Kim & Zander provided basic instruction, a life jacket each & helped us into the water in our 2 man kayaks. They guided us into the open waters and across to the mangroves where we weaved in and out of the canopy laden course. That's where our new found skills were put to the test; manouvering under low hanging branches and avoiding others in the group. We then headed to the various ship wrecks along the shoreline while keeping an eye out for dolphins. Sadly only spotted a fin from a far off distance before returning to base.
All in all a great expetience. If you have shoulder, arm or back issues you may want to consider your ability as it is somewhat challenging.
Can't praise our guides highly enough. They were exceptional in looking after us and providing pandling advice when we needed it, always ensuring we were safe and not left behind.
Advise that you wear a hat, long pants & sleeves & lots of blockout as it gets hot out there. Take water too.
It can be a little difficult to spot this group at first as they are located at the far end of the Garden Isand carpark in a gated area. Other kayak tours are on the lawns of the carpark but that's not this group.
All in all a great expetience. If you have shoulder, arm or back issues you may want to consider your ability as it is somewhat challenging.
Can't praise our guides highly enough. They were exceptional in looking after us and providing pandling advice when we needed it, always ensuring we were safe and not left behind.
Advise that you wear a hat, long pants & sleeves & lots of blockout as it gets hot out there. Take water too.
It can be a little difficult to spot this group at first as they are located at the far end of the Garden Isand carpark in a gated area. Other kayak tours are on the lawns of the carpark but that's not this group.
Written 27 November 2021
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Thank you for taking time to review us and we are thrilled you all enjoyed your kayak tour with us. And yes good advice to cover up from the elements and take water with you and we do recommend this in our reminder email that is sent prior to the tour.
Written 28 November 2021
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Rob C
2 contributions
Nov 2024 • Couples
This was a great 3 hour tour during which we explored the mangroves, saw a small pod of dolphins and kayaked around the shipwrecks. The weather was blustery but our guide, Paddy, led us along a route which minimised the effects. Paddy is very knowledgeable about the area and its flora and fauna. This was a great way to end our month-long trip to Australia. Thoroughly recommended.
Written 20 November 2024
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Thank you so much for your five star review and recommendation, we very much appreciate it. We are glad you enjoyed your kayak tour with Paddy and we hope to see you again someday in the future (on a less windy day).
Written 1 January 2025
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Annette R
5 contributions
Mar 2024 • Friends
We had a lovely afternoon with Alex, our guide. He was very knowledgeable about the wildlife, mangroves and local history, also very friendly and was helpful in getting another lady back to her cruise ship on time.
Would thoroughly recommend this trip, we did see the dolphins together with egrets, pelicans and herons.
Lovely area, enjoyed the experience.
Dry bags are provided so don't worry about things getting wet but then don't take much with you just the usual hat, sunglasses sun cream and camera obviously and wear something you don't mind getting wet & salty.
Enjoy.
Would thoroughly recommend this trip, we did see the dolphins together with egrets, pelicans and herons.
Lovely area, enjoyed the experience.
Dry bags are provided so don't worry about things getting wet but then don't take much with you just the usual hat, sunglasses sun cream and camera obviously and wear something you don't mind getting wet & salty.
Enjoy.
Written 20 March 2024
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Thank you so much for your lovey review, we very much appreciate it and we are so glad to hear you enjoyed your kayak tour with Alex.
Kind regards
DSKT
Written 28 March 2024
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DKSoulmates
Toronto, Canada2 contributions
Kayaks were comfortable. Guide was knowledgeable. Sadly didn’t actually see any dolphins, we understand they are wild, therefore no guarantee, did not affect our experience.
The thing that really hurt the experience for us - we had one couple in our group that was extremely slow, so we spent half our time out in the kayaks just sitting and waiting for them to catch up. As a result we were not able to explore the shipwrecks at all. In my opinion they should have the individuals rate themselves based on ability and have the more experienced kayakers leave first. If any have over estimated their abilities they can always fall back to the slower/less experienced group. It would make the experience better for everyone.
The thing that really hurt the experience for us - we had one couple in our group that was extremely slow, so we spent half our time out in the kayaks just sitting and waiting for them to catch up. As a result we were not able to explore the shipwrecks at all. In my opinion they should have the individuals rate themselves based on ability and have the more experienced kayakers leave first. If any have over estimated their abilities they can always fall back to the slower/less experienced group. It would make the experience better for everyone.
Written 26 November 2022
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Thank you for your feedback. It is most unfortunate that you had some slower kayakers in your group that obviously affected the tour on the day. We do hope you enjoyed the beautiful mangrove creeks and had plenty of time to explore them. From past experience trying to segregate groups does not always work, but thank you for the suggestion. We do try to make the experience best for everyone and we are always looking at improving.
Written 28 November 2022
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Justin v
10 contributions
Nov 2023 • Solo
This was a great kayak tour, it was my first time ever and it all went very smoothly. There were some really cool shipwrecks to see and we got to see a bunch of dolphins (with calves) swimming around us and even in-between us (they approached us). There were plenty opportunities for photos of the dolphins, birds, mangrove forests, and shipwrecks. Our tour guide Alex was very friendly and answered all of our questions, and he even gave us a ride to the train station afterwards as it's a bit of a long way outside the city. Be aware that you will be in direct sunlight for most of the tour and I did get a pretty bad sunburn, especially on my legs which I hadn't realized would get so exposed, so make sure you apply plenty of sunscreen. I would recommend it to anyone visiting the Adelaide area!
Written 21 December 2023
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Thank you so much for your lovely review Justin, we very much appreciate it. We are pleased that you had a great tour with Alex and you got to see lots within the Dolphin Sanctuary , it also sounds like he certainly looked after you.
Kind regards
Written 2 January 2024
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Guy B
Southampton, UK61 contributions
Great experience which was made better by the knowledgeable guide/staff member, Paddy.
The guided tour gave us lots of interesting and relevant information surrounding the mangroves and also the dolphins, to which we were lucky enough to see.
I did have concerns about other “wildlife” that we might encounter however the area appears really safe and the sun is your only threat.
Tips/feedback - As British tourists, this location is remote, there is nothing there apart for toilets. Normally not really a problem, however when I realised that we didn’t have any data/wifi and we arrived via Uber, left me a bit concerned to how we were going to get back to the city. Thankfully, Paddy allowed us to use his phone as a hotspot in order for us to book an Uber back (thank you Paddy). Perhaps that might be a consideration for the owner to look into WiFi for customers instead of relying on the staffs goodwill.
Other that a very enjoyable experience.
The guided tour gave us lots of interesting and relevant information surrounding the mangroves and also the dolphins, to which we were lucky enough to see.
I did have concerns about other “wildlife” that we might encounter however the area appears really safe and the sun is your only threat.
Tips/feedback - As British tourists, this location is remote, there is nothing there apart for toilets. Normally not really a problem, however when I realised that we didn’t have any data/wifi and we arrived via Uber, left me a bit concerned to how we were going to get back to the city. Thankfully, Paddy allowed us to use his phone as a hotspot in order for us to book an Uber back (thank you Paddy). Perhaps that might be a consideration for the owner to look into WiFi for customers instead of relying on the staffs goodwill.
Other that a very enjoyable experience.
Written 14 April 2024
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Thank you so much for your 5 star review, we very much appreciate it. We are so glad you had a great kayak experience with Paddy and that he helped you with your Uber.
Written 24 April 2024
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Simon C
1 contribution
Jan 2024 • Family
We got lucky!
There is a chance you might not see dolphins. They live wild and if they’ve got other business that day then you’re out of luck.
We on the other hand had that day where even Alex, our guide, was going “oh my god! I’ve never seen this before!”
A pod of 4 (with 2 calves) right in the narrow mangrove creek diving right under the kayaks … just chilling out and playing within touching distance
I mean why wouldn’t you give 5 stars for that?
To be honest even if we hadn’t got so lucky I can still highly recommend this trip. An easy few hours paddling round old sea wrecks, through the mangroves and with an informative, friendly and knowledgeable guide (Alex. Did I mention him?)
I’ll keep my fingers crossed for you!
There is a chance you might not see dolphins. They live wild and if they’ve got other business that day then you’re out of luck.
We on the other hand had that day where even Alex, our guide, was going “oh my god! I’ve never seen this before!”
A pod of 4 (with 2 calves) right in the narrow mangrove creek diving right under the kayaks … just chilling out and playing within touching distance
I mean why wouldn’t you give 5 stars for that?
To be honest even if we hadn’t got so lucky I can still highly recommend this trip. An easy few hours paddling round old sea wrecks, through the mangroves and with an informative, friendly and knowledgeable guide (Alex. Did I mention him?)
I’ll keep my fingers crossed for you!
Written 24 January 2024
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Thank you so much for your lovely review and recommendation, we very much appreciate it. We are thrilled you had a great paddle with Alex and you got to see dolphins up close and personal - what a special experience.
We hope to see you again someday in the future.
Written 1 February 2024
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Asil26
Adelaide, Australia6 contributions
Dec 2020
Had a fantastic day watching the dolphins and paddling into the mangroves. It was so peaceful and serene. We did our own tour with a guided map. A great Company to deal with, they were well prepared with life jackets & small waterproof bags to put your items in, ie your phone, wallets, keys etc. Very Professional and lovely to deal with – nothing was too much trouble. Will be back again most definitely. Amazing! Make sure you go to the very end of the car park through the gated area
Written 29 December 2020
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Alicia V
3 contributions
Aug 2023 • Couples
Very enjoyable tour. It does get a bit tiring half way through, but you do have the option of finishing the tour early. I loved seeing the dolphins and the shipwreck was very interesting. I recommend this experience to those who want to enjoy nature in a different way.
Written 31 August 2023
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Thank you so much for your review and we are so glad you enjoyed your kayak tour with us.
Written 2 September 2023
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Hi, We are wanting to book a Kayak tour for 2 people this Friday 10 June.
Is the tour going ahead?
Do you do pickup - we are at the Mayfair Hotel - 45 King William St, Adelaide?
Regards,
Phil
Written 8 June 2022
Allison T
Adelaide, Australia
I’m wondering what time of year is best to do this experience?
Written 13 May 2022
Can a 7 year old girl do the kayak tour… and what is the cost please.
Written 19 April 2022
Yes I took my 8 year old grandson & he did well. We shared a kayak so kids sren't on their own. Cost; we did a family booking so just google the site and state how many in your party to get the price.
Written 20 April 2022
Hi
I am wondering what time this tour starts and finishes?
Mark
Written 21 November 2021
I would like to give as a gift for my daughter who is working and living in Adelaide. I would like her to be able to book the date to revolve around her shifts. Is there a voucher I could send her please?
Written 21 December 2020
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