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Explore the stunning Cornish coastline aboard our RIB Boats. Search for an array of wildlife, including seabirds, seals, and dolphins, while enjoying the dramatic scenery. These boat trips cater to all ages, making them perfect for families and animal lovers alike. Led by experienced skippers with extensive local knowledge.
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1 Hour Sea Safari RIB Boat Trip
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The Cornish coastline is a magical kayaking destination, with smugglers' caves, dramatic cliffs, magical coves, and crystal-clear waters, maybe even with the odd seal. This sea kayak adventure is the perfect way to discover it. Numbers are capped at eight, so there's personalized attention from your qualified kayaking instructor, while beginners will learn the kayaking fundamentals at an activity center first.
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Sea Kayak Lesson & Tour in Newquay
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Being out at sea on a boat, wildlife sightings, and coastline exploration. Looking for and observing local wildlife: many types of seabirds, seals, dolphins, juvenile dolphins, sunfish, jellyfish, tuna, and minke whales.
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2 Hour Sea Safari RIB Boat Trip
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With this beginners’ surfing lesson in Newquay, you can get great access to your instructor, as it’s a small-group experience that’s capped at eight people. Don’t worry about bringing heavy equipment with you, as everything you need is provided. So just show up and get ready for a fun and informative introduction to the core surfing skills you need.
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Beginner Surf Lesson in Newquay, Cornwall
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Get two experiences in one—a stand-up paddleboarding lesson as well as a guided tour of Newquay’s dramatic coastline. To help make the day run as smoothly as possible, all the SUP equipment you need is provided. So, all you need to do is show up and get ready for a lot of fun. Find out how to launch, land, balance, and perform basic strokes; then set off on a route to see the beauty of the local area.
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Paddleboarding Around Newquay's Coastline
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3… 2… 1… Blast Off! We are excited to share our biggest activity to date at the Newquay Activity Centre. Stand up paddle boarding in Cornwall just got even bigger on our super sized inflatable SUP! Enjoy team games, epic views and a sense of camaraderie on Newquays breathtaking coastline. Learn how to balance, paddle and navigate these supersize beasts! Under the watchful eye of our expert instructor, you’ll work as a team to navigate craggy coastlines, cliffs, caves and currents. Throughout the tour, our passionate guides will be on hand to give you a fascinating insight into Newquay’s mythical past as well as helping you spot interesting marine wildlife. After exploring Newquay’s coastal landscape and mastering some basic moves, you’ll moor up your Super SUP for a variety of hilariously fun games. These include the appropriately titled King of the SUP, Sumo SUP and, of course, a bit of classic SUP racing!
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Giant Stand Up Paddle Boarding Experience in Newquay
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The Cornish coastline around Newquay offers an expanse of wild and rugged shores. The best way to explore it is by scrambling over the rocks and jumping from the cliffs—aka coasteering—to discover some of the coastline’s prettiest spots. This experience gives you all the thrills of coasteering but in a safe way, with a professional instructor-guide, on a tour that’s limited to just 16 people per group.
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Coasteering
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Add a coasteering adventure to your Newquay trip with this half-day experience on the Cornish coast. Sessions run year-round, with winter bookings available on weekends. After a short walk from Fistral Beach, you’ll try cliff jumping, climbing, and swimming—all under expert lifeguard supervision. A good swimming ability and a bit of confidence is all that’s required.
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Half-Day Coasteering in Newquay Cornwall
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Guided by Surf Sanctuary founder Dom Moore, this private experience is built on decades exploring Cornwall's coastline. Surfing since 1997 and teaching ocean sports professionally since 2003, Dom combines a First Class Natural Sciences degree with RLSS lifeguard and RYA VHF qualifications, bringing scientific understanding, fieldcraft and professional judgement to every session. Rather than returning to the same location each day, every trip is tuned to recent, current and forecast wind, swell, tide and underwater visibility, selecting the venue offering the best combination of safety and hunting conditions. P Premium California-made Riffe equipment is provided throughout. Learn fish behavior, ethical harvesting, hunting strategy, shot placement and, if successful, how to humanely dispatch and prepare your catch.
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Private Guided Spearfishing in Cornwall
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While it’s possible to learn to surf just by picking up a board and tooling around, it’s quicker and safer to learn from the pros. Whether you’re an absolute beginner or already learning to turn, this 2.5-hour course will help you navigate Cornwall’s surf safely and in control. Separate coaches look after surfers at different levels, ensuring rapid learning.
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Half-Day (2hr) Surf Experience in Newquay - Beginners & Improvers
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Grab a taste for bodyboarding in Cornwall and catch crystal-clear waves on Newquay’s scenic coastline. Our Taster Bodyboard Lessons are ideal for complete newbies or for improvers looking to up-skill their existing knowledge. These lessons have been designed to improve your riding - whatever your age, level or ability. A small group ensures plenty of useful tips and close-quarters tuition for faster progression. Our coaching team of fully insured and experienced instructors tailor tuition to your individual ability. Having been in-house trained by former European Number 1 and British Team Bodyboarding Coach Rob Barber, you really couldn’t be in safer hands when bodyboarding in Cornwall.
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Taster Bodyboard Lesson in Newquay, Cornwall
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Surfing can be a daunting sport for a beginner, but with expert tuition, you could soon be catching waves. Begin with wetsuit fitting and a beach safety briefing at Fistral Beach, Newquay, followed by warm-ups and step-by-step guidance on surf skills including pop-up practice. Learn the fundamentals with teacher guidance and each move broken down into easy-to-follow steps.
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Beginner's Surf Experience in Newquay
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There are few better places to learn to surf in the UK than Cornwall, which is renowned for its scenic coastline and great waves. Learn a new skill or improve on existing ones with a surfing lesson package that includes two 2-hour lessons, which can be taken in the same day or over two days. Enjoy the convenience of having all your gear provided and more attention in a small group.
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Full-Day (2 x 2 hr lessons) Surf Experience Newquay: All levels
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Taking a coasteering trip along Newquay’s coast alone is a complete no-no, even if you’re experienced at the sport. This guided expedition lets you enjoy coasteering in safety and with all equipment provided, so you can focus on the scenery, swims, and jumps. Negotiate the water’s edge, caves, and whirlpools; and take deep-water leaps and swims, all with a qualified guide. A choice of time slots gives you useful flexibility.
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Cornish Classic Coasteer – Cliff Jumps, Sea Caves & Wild Swimming
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This is an ideal activity for families or groups of friends visiting Cornwall. Eliminate the guesswork of learning how to surf and opt for a far more informative and safer alternative—a private surf lesson for up to four people. No need to worry about buying expensive gear, as wetsuits, shoes, and surfboards are included.
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Private Family / Small-Group Surf Lesson (max. 4) in Newquay.
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Newquay’s caves, beaches, rapids, and dramatic scenery make it the perfect place to go coasteering. On this guided tour, benefit from having a professional qualified coasteering guide to take you to a hidden spot that’s off the usual tourist trail. All required equipment is provided, and the route allows you to try out wild swimming, climbing through sea caves, traversing natural rapids, and leaping into secret plunge pools.
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Coasteering Experience in Newquay
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After a warm hello by your guides, you will be kitted out in your own wetsuit, buoyancy aid, and given your Paddleboard! You will need to bring a swimming costume to wear under our wetsuit and a towel. Once kitted up and ready to go, you will head to one of our Paddleboard sites in Newquay, carefully chosen to get the most out of some of the iconic sites of Newquay. Your experienced guide will cover the details of what to expect from the session, including the ‘know-how’ on how to manage the paddleboard to make for a fun session! Once you have practised the techniques and skills manoeuvring the board, your guide will take you on a tour of that area, giving you the opportunity to find hidden coves, navigate the coastline and enjoy all the fun that paddleboarding has to offer!
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Monster SUP & Tour in Newquay
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Learn to surf in one of the UK’s prime surfing spots on Newquay’s South Fistral Beach. Under the watchful eye of a lifeguard-qualified surfing instructor, you’ll head out into the water to tackle your first waves or hone your skills. These beginner group lessons are perfect for first-timers or those needing a refresher lesson. Note that kids aged 7-10 must be accompanied by an adult.
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Surf Lesson
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Fistral Beach is the Home to British Surfing; on our Cornish Surf Day you get to immerse yourself in the very best it has to offer. Start your day off with a 2 hour surfing lesson. From here you can relax with a pasty and ice-cream or continue practising. You have use of your surfing equipment for the whole day.
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Cornish Surf Day
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Opt for a private surf lesson in Newquay, and head to the legendary Fistral Beach and International Surfing Centre where sweeping sands and fun waves await. Bookable for beginners and confident surfers alike, the lesson is tailored to your ability so you get the most out of your time in the water. Even better: The experience is private, so your personal group gets the full attention of your instructor.
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Private Surfing Lesson
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As the only surf hire based on Fistral Beach and the UK's largest dedicated surf hire you can be confident that we have the correct equipment for you. Open all year we have a fantastic selection of wetsuits and boards for all abilities. You need not worry about your belongings as these can be left with the surf hire while you are out enjoying the waves. Being based on the beach means that throughout the day you can drop the equipment off, and pick it back up as you like.
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Daily Beginner Surf Hire
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Cover a lot of surfing techniques in a short time period with a package that provides four lessons over two intensive days. Each 2-hour lesson is tailored to your skill level, whether you are new to surfing or have some experience under your belt. You can schedule the four sessions over 2–4 days, with two lessons per day the norm (one lesson per day in winter).
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Children's School Holiday Surf Session (8-13 year olds)
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