Kayak to the penguins in Simons Town

It was a blustery day so our expectations were low. But Jen and Andrew provided an unforgettable experience. We saw tons of penguins, had a great paddle and enjoyed the amazing visibility in the water. Great bonding experience for our family.

This was one of the best experiences of my visit to Cape Town. While many tourists go to the penguin centre on the shore, we paddled with Gravity Adventures around Simon’s Town and visited many beautiful, lesser-known, and less crowded small beaches along the way. This gave us a unique opportunity to see the penguins and other wildlife from the sea. We highly recommend this to anyone visiting this area. The Gravity Adventures team (especially Marie-Louise, Andrew, and their team) were excellent at organising the logistics of bringing the boats and were very experienced and knowledgeable about the surrounding area and wildlife. This was a very well-guided tour.

What an awesome experience! So many things in one place - great exercise, panoramic vistas, a new view of the well known penguin site in Cape Town, and a chance to swim on some less well known and very beautiful little beaches in that area. Keep up the good work! It’s a good way to spend a Sunday morning.

Incredible day with family! Youngest was 11 and oldest 78! Guide Jen was incredibly knowledgeable, sharing interesting info on the area and wildlife. Awesome to see birds and penguins from a kayak. Kayaks in excellent condition. Felt safe and relaxed.

Great experience, highly recommend. Make sure to pack a sun hat and sunscreen though! We saw penguin, seals and got an opportunity to swim in the beautiful bay. Great, informative tour guide.

Our guide was super chilled and really great at the role. The kayaks, being 'fisherman' flat bottom kayaks are not made for speed and quite hard to control with two people vs the one person kayaks, BUT we had no trouble doing 10km worth of paddling in 2 hours. The 07:00 tie slot was perfect, we got to see the penguins going out for their early morning fishing.

Some of us struggled keeping direction (-:. It made for lots of laughter. Jennifer and Jason were super! Great to get close to nature and seeing the wonderful creation of God.

We were contacted by the tour operator to move our trip due to weather conditions. They were helpful in fitting this around us but did not explain the change of location meant no penguins. I couldn’t fault the local guides we went kayaking with. They were great; good fun, informative and took lovely photos for us. We saw seals and dolphins which was cool but on arrival were told we were unlikely to see penguins in that area. And ultimately that was my reason for booking this trip.

We had very little experience and managed thanks to lots of help from the guide. Beautiful , fun day outdoors. Very good sightings.

Josh was a great guide. He pointed out sights and gave the history or explanation of. He also pointed out the wildlife, ocean and land. He made sure we saw an abundance of penguins.