Paddle Journeys

🌞 Labour Weekend is calling — and so is the water! 🚣‍♀️💦
The forecast is looking great for a paddle, and there’s no better way to make the most of the sunshine than getting out on the water with friends or whānau. Whether you’re up for a peaceful morning cruise or a full-day adventure, grab your paddle and go! 🌊
✨ Need tips or inspiration? Head to the Paddle Journeys website for ideas (link below). We’ve add a few more trips recently!

Paddle Journeys | Kayak and SUP Trip Planning Paddle Journeys is your guide to self-led kayak and Stand Up Paddleboarding (SUP) trips in New Zealand. Our online paddle journey route guides will help you plan the perfect adventure!

The Avon and Heathcote Estuary is a trip we’ve been asked about quite a lot! People want to paddle here but the tide flows fast and you don’t want to get it wrong! So we’ve created a page to help you plan the journey to get the conditions you’re looking for!

Let us know what you think! And we’d love to see photos of you on this trip!

www.paddlejourneys.com/avon-estuary

What a great day today delivering a SUP Safety course! We spent the morning thinking about knowledge, skills and equipment needed to plan and carry out a great SUP experience. Then in the afternoon we went out at Sumner to look at practical rescue skills! It was an amazing session and we even had a penguin come and check out what we were doing!

This course was free for participants, a big shout out to the organisations that made this happen! NZSUP fund the course and provide a wealth of knowledge and experience on SUPing safely. Coastguard New Zealand provided the classroom in their amazing facility in Sumner! Moana SUP & Surf provided some of their great kit for our participants to try out - including their inflatable SUPs and safety kit like the SUP buddy tape and the quick release waist belt. And lastly Christchurch Paddleboarding for helping to kit out anyone on the course who needed a few extra bits! Ngā mini for everyone who made the course possible to help keep people safe!

Finally getting through the videos we took from the D’Urville Island trip sorted into a short video:

Sea Kayaking D’Urville Island During our Christmas holiday we paddled around D’Urville Island, starting out from French Pass / Te Aumiti on Monday 23rd December in the afternoon (to make ...

Details of our D'Urville Island expedition that we did over Christmas are now available online at www.paddlejourneys.com/d-urville-island
It was a great trip with lots of penguins and seals to be seen. Definitely one of the more advanced trips we’ve done but an incredible place to paddle! The journey includes 300 metre high cliffs, secluded camp spots and heaps of rock hopping!

D'Urville Island | Paddle Journeys All you need to know about paddling around the remote and stunning D'Urville Island in the Marlborough Sounds, an incredible kayak expedition!

Hope you’ve had a good Christmas and New Year!
We’re looking forward to more paddling adventures in 2025.
Over Christmas, we paddled around D’Urville Island in the sea kayaks and managed a few day trips on SUPs. We’re now updating the website with some of these adventures, so watch this space. In the meantime here’s a few teaser photos.
Did you manage to get out anywhere over the holidays?

Kia ora koutou!

Hope you’re getting out and enjoying some of this sunny weather on your Paddleboards!

I’ve joined up with NZSUP to provide some free SUP safety sessions this Summer! Maybe Santa has brought you a new SUP and you want to have the right info to stay safe. Or maybe you’re a seasoned pro and just want a bit of an update and people to practice with. This session is for all ages and abilities. Children must be accompanied by an adult though!

The sessions will run from 10am to 3pm. The morning will be an inside session chatting about how to plan a safe SUP session, then the afternoon will be on the water learning some practical safety skills! You can either come for just the morning or the full day.

Session 1 - 11th Jan - Bishopdale Community centre and Lake Rua
Sign up at: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/nz-sup-safe-session-tickets-1110991488449?aff=oddtdtcreator

Session 2 - 1st March - Sumner
Sign up at: https://www.eventbrite.co.nz/e/nz-sup-safe-session-2-tickets-1113353884439?aff=oddtdtcreator

More details are on the registration pages. Feel free to send me any questions!

Looking forward to seeing you there!

NZ SUP Safe Session 2 Come and learn about how to keep yourself and others safe whilst on your Stand Up Paddleboard (SUP) at this free session!

We took the SUPs out for a windy paddle on Sunday around Quail Island. Making the most of the shorter crossing, we started and finished at Charteris Bay instead of Cass Bay.
For more details to help plan your own journey around Quail Island go to: www.paddlejourneys.com/quail-island

https://youtu.be/0-lklRtfhSk?feature=shared

King Billy and Quail Islands on SUP Windy day in Littleton Harbour around King Billy Island to the Ship Graveyard and around Quail Island from Charteris Bay

How was everyone’s weekend? We had an awesome adventure out to Ripapa Island, exploring the historic Fort Jervois. It’s a perfect day trip from Christchurch, with fascinating history and stunning views! If you’re keen to check it out, head over to our guide for all the info you need

Fort Jervois | Paddle Journeys All you need to know about where to paddle for a half day of kayaking or Stand Up Paddleboarding (SUP) to Fort Jarvis from Charteris Bay!