“Our favourite!” The 2 hour Storms River Kayak & Lilo Adventure is our most popular adventure activity in Tsitsikamma National Park! If you are keen to explore deeper into the Storms River Gorge in Tsitsikamma, and experience the long, deep, quiet pools, then the Kayak and Lilo trip is for you!
We paddle from the Harbour next to the small beach across the ocean, then under the Suspension Bridge and up the beautiful Storms River Mouth. Please note that if the sea is rough, you have to hike to the Suspension Bridge (along a boardwalked trail), where we then hike along the river from the suspension bridge up to the jetty to where you then get on onto your kayaks. This 1km hike takes about 30 min
This is where the true Kayaking adventure begins – paddling the Storms River, the pinnacle of Tsitsikamma National Park. After waving to all the tourists photographing you from the Suspension Bridge, we continue the kayak trip up the Stormsriver. We paddle right into the bats cave and spend time gazing up at the magnificent and spectacular cliffs all around us, all from the comfort of our double sit-on-top kayaks.
At the low-water point we disembark our kayaks and we jump on our unique Lilo’s. (a Lilo is an inflatable mattress that we’ve had specially made for this trip). From here we walk and float over a short section of rocks and simply wade deeper up the river on the Lilo’s. What a stunning view it is, laying on a Lilo at water level, and gazing up to cliffs that touch the sky! At reaching a certain point, we simply turn our Lilo’s around and float back down river to our Kayaks!
ACTIVITY BREAKDOWN
When the ocean is safe to kayak over the trip will involve in total: 10 minutes briefing, 20-30 minutes of ocean kayaking, 30-40 minutes of river kayaking, 40 minutes on Lilo and +/- 20 minutes Cliff Jumping, swimming and some time in between of just relaxing and enjoying the beautiful view. If the ocean is unsafe to kayak over, the trip will involve in total: +/- 40 minutes of hiking through the forest, 10 minutes of briefing, 30-40 minutes of river kayaking, 40 minutes on Lilo and +/- 20 minutes Cliff Jumping, swimming etc. as above.
PLEASE NOTE: The kayak & lilo activity starts half an hour after the time slot booked for as it takes time to have the briefing (see above), be kitted out etc.
Please see below link that will show you where we are located.
https://youtu.be/4KkJRHX-mWQ?si=SruZyd63n3uM0KBU
Clients are not allowed on our activities under the influence of alcohol.
Please note: We are located INSIDE the National Park please see video link below that shows you where we are located, gate entry fees must be paid upon arrival. Please note that we are currently experiencing approximately one-hour delays at the entrance gate due to renovations by SANPARKS. Please allow for extra time.
During the peak summer season, it can take an hour or longer to get through the National Park gate. Please allow for this in your travel planning as there are no refunds for late/no shows.
NOTE: If you are requiring times or group sizes other than those shown please contact our shop on 073 1300 689 / 076 959 2817 during business hours as other time slots may be available.
https://youtu.be/4KkJRHX-mWQ?si=SruZyd63n3uM0KBU
Fantastic experience and would do it again in a heartbeat. Our guides Brighton and Norman were really friendly and helpful as well. Definitely suggest signing up for this if you are in the area - worth it! - Jaryd
The experience was amazing and truly unique. It is something that we could not keep from sharing with our friends and family, wanting people to experiencing for themselves. The activities are a bit under-advertised and can be missed with people not frequenting the area. We are from Cape town and was aware of the Zip-line, the bungie jumping and beach locations but only realise the canoeing when we were in the area. What we also saw is that the locals might not be able to afford multiple activities like we did due to the costing(not saying that the costing was to unreasonable). A local and a tourist rate might make the activities more attainable to less fortunate South Africans. - Brendin
Hi. Ek is baie happy met die mense. Die 1 ou wat agter my gesit het was baie wonderlik en goed en baie vriendlik. - Riana
We absolutely loved the tour - the guides Lisa and Julio were amazing. I would recommend this to anyone visiting the area. If I have a suggestion, it would be to make the kloofing area more accessible - I really wanted to do it but was more afraid of cracking my skull on the way up than doing the actual jump. Sadly, I did not risk it :( - Natasha
Had funtastic time. Romeo and Clinton were awesome guides. They ensured that we understood safety briefing. They also everyone made everyone at ease during the kayaking. This is definately must do again with friends. Cliff diving was awesome. - Patrick
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