Sea Kayaking Holidays

Southern Sea Ventures specialises in sea kayak holidays, offering a diverse range of sea kayak adventures from the Pacific to the Mediterranean to the Polar Regions. We first began operating sea kayak tours in 1988 in Fiji and Australia and have steadily grown to offer a range of camping and ship based tours all around the world. Our fleets of single and double sea kayaks allow us easy and intimate access to some of the world's most beautiful coastlines, secluded tropical islands, and unforgettable polar landscapes.

Warm water trips include Fiji, Papua New Guinea, Tonga, Australia, Turkey and Croatia. Cold water trips and polar itineraries aboard our expedition ships include Antarctica, South Georgia, the Falklands, Norway, the Kurils in northern Japan and the Russian Far East, Kamchatka Peninsula, Wrangel Island and Bering Strait, Spitsbergen and Greenland.

We have four new and exciting trips in 2009, taking our list of destinations to fourteen! Our new trips include kayaking in the Bering Strait and around Wrangel Island, two additional adventures in the Croatian Adriatic and our longest journey, combining the best of the Arctic in one odyssey from Iceland to Greenland, Spitsbergen and Norway.

In response to increasing interest in our trips from experienced kayakers, we have added more single kayaks to our Fiji, Croatia and Turkey trips.

Our kayak holidays are fully catered and feature small groups, remote destinations and very experienced guides. We have an active concern for the environment and the countries and cultures that we visit. We have two expedition ships to cover the world’s wild places and provide a comfortable base for our fleets of sturdy kayaks. Polar Pioneer takes us to the Antarctic, South Georgia, High Arctic, Greenland, Scotland and Norway whilst the Marina Svetaeva explores Papua New Guinea, the Kuril Islands, Kamchatka and Chukotka, and Bering Strait and Wrangel Island.

Al Bakker, Founder