Take the opportunity to interact and swim with the incredible dusky dolphins of Kaikoura!
Having the highest success rate in New Zealand to both locate AND swim with dolphins, the friendly team at Encounter Kaikoura will provide you with a not to be missed bucket list experience!
Dusky dolphins are one, if not the most interactive and acrobatic species of dolphins in the world and they frequent Kaikoura year-round! Join the team aboard a comfortable vessel for a picturesque tour along the spectacular Kaikoura coastline.
Meet these incredible wild animals in their natural environment, and enjoy their spectacular acrobatics in the open ocean.
Make memories to last a lifetime and book today!
Swimming with the dolphins is an exhilarating and exertive experience and those who book to swim should be relatively physically fit and be confident swimmers in open water. Snorkeling experience is an advantage though not essential as lessons can be provided onboard.
Tours scheduled daily: We close just one day each year - Christmas Day!
Swimmers and watchers join the same tour, and if you would prefer to stay dry and watch these amazing mammals from aboard the boat, please check out the deals on our Watch Tour:
Thanks so much for your recommendation and taking the time to post your review! We are stoked you enjoyed your tour! :-)
Incredible experience. We came across big pot of dolphins. Although they didn’t stick around us for long, it was a privilege to swim around them. Would recommend
Thanks for your recommendation! So cool you got to see a lot of dolphins on your visit! :-)
Swimming with so many dolphins was amazing! We saw around 600 dolphins swimming around us, some of them got really close and you can swim with them.
Thanks for your review Beatriz! That's a lot of dolphins! How lucky :-)
It was to touristical, we were more tourists than dolphins on that day and I was couple of Times hit by fin in my head from other swimmers !
Hi Bailey - thanks for taking the time to post a review and how fabulous to see two species of dolphins! Great to hear how much you enjoyed the experience :-)
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Marilou Dupre-Paradis from New Zealand wrote on 01 September 2020
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Amazing experience, super friendly staff and the dolphins were so playful! All in all highly recommend, thanks team!
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