Staged restart - Seal Swim Kaikoura will begin a staged restart for the 2025/2026 summer season. We are currently planning to start limited tours in November 2025. Limited tour spaces will be avaliable to book online soon. In the interim please send us an enquiry through the enquiry form below or an email to [email protected] with the dates you are interested in and we will be in touch as soon as booking availabilty is live.
Join us for a totally unique experience seal swimming with Kekeno (New Zealand Fur Seals) in their own spectacular marine environment on the beautiful East Coast of the South Island!
Snorkelling with wild New Zealand Fur Seals, in the shallow waters of the beautiful Kaikōura Peninsula, truly is a unique experience. It's one of those simple nature experiences that opens your mind to the sheer magnificence of our natural environment and its amazing inhabitants. A breathtaking nature activity and recently listed as one of the world's 'Top 10 Marine Encounters' by Lonely Planet.
We are Aotearoa's (New Zealand’s) original seal swimming crew. Family-owned, we have been operating safe and enjoyable tours to swim with the seals since 1987. For us living in Kaikōura and taking people seal swimming is a lifestyle choice. There are not many successful businesses such as ours where the owners are still jumping in the water every day to be your guides. Our tours are licenced by the New Zealand Department of Conservation and we work hard to ensure that we do not disturb the natural behavioural patterns of the seals. The seals are totally free to come and go as they please.
Find out moreYou'll be part of an intimate group of like minded adventurers suited up with warm wetsuits and guided on one of our boat-based or land-based seal snokelling tours. Both tours are of the same duration and aim to have a similar interaction time. For advanced bookings we recommend the boat based tours as they have a higher success rate in a wider range of conditions.
This is an experience that you do not want to miss out on. Happy travels and maybe we will see you soon.
Adults: Swim $179
Children: Swim $129 (12 to 14 years)
Phone: +64 3 319 6182
Free Phone: 0800 SEAL SWIM or 0800 732 579
Email: [email protected]
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Kaikoura is located 2.5 hours drive north of Christchurch and 2 hours south of picton. Our base is located right in the main street of town, 2 mins walk from bus stops, train station and Kaikoura i-Site Information Centre
