Archery

Archery splits into two shapes. Target archery is shot at a known distance onto a paper face and is about repeating one motion precisely. Field and 3D archery move you through a course, shooting foam animals at unmarked distances among trees, which adds range judgement and a walk to the problem. Both exist around the […]

Guided E-Bike Tours, Ebike Cape Town

Cape Town is hilly, which is exactly why an e-bike works here. Pedal assist carries you up Table Mountain’s service road and over the Constantia slopes without the effort that would otherwise rule those routes out, and you still ride slowly enough to see things. The half-day city tour is the flagship: about forty kilometres […]

Royal Enfield Motorcycle Tours, RETZA

You ride. This is not a chauffeured tour: RETZA puts you on a Royal Enfield of your own, a guide leads the route, and you spend the day on the bike yourself. A pillion seat can be added to a rider’s booking for someone who would rather sit behind. The full-day Peninsula route leaves Salt […]

Wing Foiling

Wing foiling is the newest of the wind sports here and the one with the shortest run-in. You hold a hand-held inflatable wing and stand on a board with a hydrofoil under it. Once the foil lifts, the board leaves the water and the noise stops. Lessons are taught on the Langebaan lagoon and at […]

Kitesurfing

Cape Town’s summer south-easter is the reason kitesurfers arrive here from all over the world. It blows hard and it blows reliably, which is exactly what the sport needs. Beginners usually start on the Langebaan lagoon, where the water is flat and shallow, before moving to the surf at Blouberg. An introductory session runs around […]

Snorkelling

Cape Town snorkelling is a kelp forest, not a coral reef. You swim through the stipes with the light coming down in shafts, and the interest is in the small things: nudibranchs, urchins, klipfish, octopus, shysharks on the sand. The water is cold. Guided sessions put you in a thick wetsuit with a hood, and […]

Scuba Diving

A try dive is the standard way in: a short theory session, a pool dive to get used to breathing underwater, and then, if you want it, a dive in the sea. It is an experience rather than a qualification, and no experience is needed to start. Cape Town has two very different dive coasts. […]

Freediving

Freediving is diving on one breath. The entry-level course runs over two days and is mostly about slowing everything down: breathing, equalising, moving, and learning what your body actually does when you stop breathing. The structure is consistent. Theory first, then a confined-water session in a pool, then open water. Cape Town schools use the […]

Pelagic Shark Diving

This is the open-ocean version, not the cage. Boats leave Simon’s Town before dawn and run offshore beyond Cape Point until they find blue water, then drift and wait. Blue sharks and shortfin makos come to the boat and you get in with them, on a snorkel or on scuba, with no cage between you […]

Coasteering, Gravity Adventures

Coasteering is kloofing that happens along a coastline instead of in a river. You work your way along the inter-tidal zone on foot, in the water and off the rocks, swimming the gaps, snorkelling the clear bits and jumping the drops. The jumps run up to eight or ten metres depending on the tide, and […]