We enjoyed a day of kayaking with our knowledgable tour guides, Tom and Carl. We saw the mountainous male sea lions flopping around on the beach, and learnt about the complex, mafia-like system of the pelican colonies. Loved it.

It's a great trip & well run by a friendly & informative host. (Tom). Very interactive with nature, birds, lizards, seals, crabs, starfish, molluscs, etc etc & a great lunch (not including any of the above 😂)

We had a fabulous trip paddling, snorkeling and exploring the islands. Carl our guide was extremely competent and informative. We learnt a lot about the seals, bird life and penguins. We enjoyed a picnic lunch on the lawns overlooking the coast while making friends with the skinks. My interstate visitors loved the experience and I would recommend this highly as a great outing.

An overall lovely day out on the water. Personal pick-up in Perth, a paddle around Seal Island and then onto Point Peron. We saw sea lions, lots of birds and even a dolphin. Carl, our guide, was very knowledgeable and funny and lunch was good and healthy. Highly recommend!

The pick-up service in Perth is great and the guide was very nice. We got a drybag to put the clothes and snorkel/masks were available which unfortunately is not stated in the tour description so we organised it ourselves without needing it then. The tour itself was nice. But nothing special. It felt as the guide was quite in a hurry to get to the pinguin island. We almost spent no time with the sea lions even though on pinguin island we had a very calm programm with lots of free time that I would rather have spent in the kayak around seal island or along the coast of penguin island insted of hanging around on penguin island. I personally would not do the tour again but rather rent kayaks and paddle to the islands on my own. There wasn't much added value from having a guide. (Sometimes I saw the guide talking. But our kayak was too far away to understand what she had said. Just at seal island there was one short information about the animals for everyone.) Lunch was a self-made sandwich which was nice. Coffee would have been a great add-on. In total we paddles maybe about 50 min (30 min until penguin island and 20 min straight back). The rest of the time was spent on the island.

Ellie was great! The tour was well organized, the food was really good, and the guide was skilled and knowledgeable. Highly recommend!

Incredibly disappointing experience. I booked the kayak hire at Shoalwater Bay to go with my young daughter. We drove over an hour to get to the meeting place to find that the address provided was wrong. When we finally got to the right place the operator was unhappy because he had brought a kayak and life jackets for adults only. I told him there is nowhere in the booking to enter the ages of participants to which he replied there most certainly is. Even today, there still is not. He said I should’ve booked direct, but still today bookings are accepted through Adrenaline. The pictures on Adrenaline show younger children so I expected this information wasn’t critical. We changed the kayak to a smaller one, but he was so disorganised he didn’t even have spare children’s life jackets. He put her in an adult’s life jacket, did it up tight and said it would be fine. We went to the water and I made a silly mistake when jumping on the kayak and we tipped over. The water was very calm and it wasn’t a big deal but the operator came along and said he was cancelling the hire. I think he was concerned about his liability if something went wrong and he had put a child in an adults life jacket. Still, his manner was quite rude, never accepting any responsibility for the wrong address, unspecifiable ages or incorrect life jackets. The person running the experience was disorganised and rude. A refund was given for the experience but nothing to compensate for the day or petrol that was wasted.

Fantastic experience! I highly recommend Rivergods and would definitely tour with them again. Very professional and well organised, catering for those (me) with zero experience kayaking. Saw the beautiful sea lions and penguins up close and enjoyed a lovely healthy picnic lunch on the island, followed by a swim/snorkel in the ocean.

So much fun! Vicky was so nice and very informative :) she explained everything really well and lunch was delicious! Thank you so much

This is a great way to enjoy penguin island. Pick up on time and then a trip on the kayaks to sea the sea lions . It’s amazing how close you get . We then headed to penguin island and had a informational tour of everything we saw. Penguin feeding was great and the lunch was much needed after a busy morning. Snorkelling and sunbathing completed our time before we headed back to shore. Shout out for Karl and his help during the trip . Recommended.

We (3) arranged an independent hire of 1 DBL and 1 SGL sea kayaks to use at Shoalwater Marine Park. Tom was excellent with taking the telephone booking and payment for next day hire, and very accommodating. All immediately confirmed with an email confirmation. Great price and so much fun. The next morning 0845, we met the van and guide to help receive our kayaks off the trailer. After a how to and area brief, we were off. The day of hire we had very clam water, with little swell and light off shore winds. The water is very clear and we enjoyed paddling around the islands, seeing the wildlife and snorkeling at the rear of Penguin island. Even had a friendly seal come bounding over to our kayak to say hello. Amazing! Return at 1400 was very easy. We were back before the tour group, and as we were physically capable, we loaded the equipment back onto the trailer, and confirmed to Tom with a quick call. Really liked the choice of guided tour or independent hire, as we like to do our own thing at our own pace. Rivergods made it all very easy. I would highly recommend the experience to anyone visiting the area. Plenty of space in stowage for lunch, water, sunblock, camera, snorkel gear, shoes etc.

What a brilliant day out with Vicky. She looked after us so well and provided lots of information about the birds, wildlife and sea life. The seals decided to put on a show for us. Cleverly she decided to move around the back of of seal island where there was only one boat and there we found the seals frolicking - great experience. Then on to Penguin Island and a great snorkel before watching the penguins being fed. By then lunch was ready in a shady spot. After a quick dip to cool down we had a walk around the island with plenty of information supplied by Vicky. Then a leisurely paddle back to the car park. We were a mixed group of 6 aged from 6 to over 70 - no one was struggling to keep up and as the older participants we were pleased we enjoyed it again as much as we had the last time (10 years ago!).

We absolutely loved our day kayaking to Seal island, Bird island and Peron point. Carl was a fantastic guide and very knowledgeable. The location for snorkelling was perfect. There was as so much to see. Carl provided a delicious morning tea and lunch and we highly recommend this experience. Thanks Carl.

The water around the marine park were very neat and despite being a novice canoeist who is a non- swimmer. Carl was a great guide who helped us kayak around the park to explore the island. We also learnt many interesting facts about the wildlife around the park. Great experience snorkeling and equipment for kayaking too. The morning tea and picnic lunch at the penguin island was also lovely. A great family holiday.

I've been kayaking many times before this. I'm a young, fairly fit female and was pretty confident as we set out. This trip was guided by Tom and a new hire, Ben. The weather was beautiful and the trip over to the islands was easy. Unfortunately the tide was extremely low and because of this, we could not snorkel at penguin Island. Tom was very knowledgeable. On the way back, I was paired with someone who struggled to steer and therefore so we veered off course in fairly strong winds. I had to flag down Ben to help us get back on track by towing. The group had to help unload and load the kayaks onto the trailer as well as back and forth on the sand to stay on schedule. Perhaps a little more info on the nature of the activity involved would help to filter those who are not physically capable or willing to assist. Perhaps also a couple more minutes spent on how to steer for those in the front of the kayak to assist less capable paddlers if mismatched. Otherwise, good trip!