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Coasteering!
What is it?
It’s THE best thing you can do in (and on) the sea. It’s a unique opportunity to explore rarely visited corners of the coast with an expert guide.
It’s a fantastically adaptable activity that can be pretty adventurous or really quite mellow (that’s mostly up to you). Coasteering is suitable for humans from 8 to 80+ years old, as long as you can swim!
Coasteering is our speciality and our favourite activity. Our guides have thousands of coasteers under their belts… We still want more!
Our coasteering routes are amazing – some of the best in the world. They’ve got jumps (completely optional, but EPIC!), swim-throughs, spectacular caves, swirly play spots and tucked-away secrets of the coast we’ve discovered during our explorations. You’ll see sponges, seaweeds, spider crabs and more. It’s not uncommon for us to be visited by a curious seal or to spot a passing porpoise.
Coasteering is our Original Activity and our guides are exceptionally experienced, equipped with the latest safety gear and trained to the highest levels. You’ll find no better cliff-ninjas/seaweed-geeks/crab-wranglers/maestros of fun to keep you safe during this fantastic adventure.
We’ll provide you with specialist coasteering wetsuits, buoyancy aids and helmets – you’ll just need to bring some footwear (trainers are perfect, beach shoes are ok if they’re secure and have decent soles).
- Minimum Age 8 Year
- £40 for kids (under 18)
- £50 for Adults
- We provide everything except footwear
- 10% discount for 4 or more people
Group prices and more below!
A unique
Sea-based Adventure!
Legend has it coasteering was invented by mountaineers to train for the big peaks…. That may be true but it was Pembrokeshire surfers who found their way along gnarly bits of coastline for fun and then introduced coasteering to the world. Whilst exploring caves, looking for stuff to jump off and getting swirled around by swells they realised two things:
a) coasteering is AMAZING
and
b) everyone should do it
You can now coasteer all over the world. But Pembrokeshire will always be the birthplace and arguably the best place to coasteer.
Session Prices
Adults £50 (half-day)
Children £40 (half-day)
Our 10% group discount for 4 or more people is applied automatically at checkout. We have special offers throughout the year so keep an eye out!
Large groups? We’ve got loads of experience with Team-Building, Stags & Hens and Adventurous Training so give us a shout.
Private sessions available, please contact us for details.
FAQ's
Coast-earring, Cow-Steering, Coaster ring, Coast-a-teering… There is often confusion around this thing we do.
Coasteering. What is it? It’s a lot of things. It’s wild-swimming and rock-scrambling. It’s exploring nooks and crannies, caves and pools. It’s playing around with swell and jumping into deep water. It’s meeting seals, eating seaweed and having a chat with a crab.
Primarily it’s an adventure activity that takes place along a stretch of coastline, mostly within the ‘inter-tidal zone’ – the bit between the high and low tide lines.
The jumping… it’s often seen as THE main part of coasteering and it’s definitely a part of it. BUT, jumping is just one topping on the epic coasteering pizza (maybe the olives). You can come on a session with us and – if you like – not jump at all! Leaping from a safe rocky platform into clear, blue water is awesome, we gently suggest everyone gives it a go. But don’t worry if it’s not your bag – there’s WAY more to coasteering than the airtime!
Yep – but if you can confidently swim 25m you should be good to go!
One thing – there’s occasionally a misconception that because we wear ‘life jackets’ swimming ability is not required… That isn’t the case! Swimming is a key mode of travel on a coasteer – you don’t need to be a seal, but you do need to be able to move through the water! Give us a shout if you’re unsure about this.
At Tenby Adventure, we’re extremely proud of our safety record – we’ve taken over 30,000 people coasteering safely without a single accident, incident or mishap (beyond the odd barnacle scratch!).
Our guides are extremely experienced and we train year-round to maintain the highest levels of safety. New staff often spend two or three years assisting lead guides before we let them progress to leading sessions on calm days.
However, it’s always worth bearing in mind that coasteering is an adventure activity! Some risk is inherent. The key to coasteering safely is your guide, so you want to be confident they are a) experienced b) properly equipped and c) working to safe group sizes.
Our guides carry all the safety kit recommended by the National Coasteering Charter (an organisation set up to establish and maintain the highest standards amongst coasteering providers). In addition we also equip all lead guides with satellite locator beacons. We believe in adventure backed-up by a belt-and-braces approach to safety.
Nope! The majority of the people who come coasteering with us are tackling it for the first time.
You’ll want to be reasonably fit and mobile, able to swim reasonably well (if you can swim a length of a 25m pool you should be good) and happy messing about in the sea.
Most important – footwear. Trainers are the absolute best thing to wear coasteering – they’ve got good grip, thick soles and are secure on the foot. Wetsuit boots are ok (you want a decent sole though) and beach-shoes/reef-shoes can be adequate IF they’re secure and have a decent, thick sole! You really, really don’t want to lose a shoe mid-coasteer.
We also ask everyone to bring a pair of shorts to wear OVER their wetsuit. This serves two purposes – you look great (ish) but mostly you get a bit of padding and your wetsuit gets a bit of protection.
Bring a towel and some warm clothes to change back into in the colder parts of the year. A changing robe is a great idea as we coasteer at places without changing facilities more often than not.
Our half-day sessions involve being in the water for between 2 and 2.5 hours. We’ve found that’s about right for 99% of people!
We do offer special extended ‘Beast-steer’ sessions at certain times of year that cover more ground for much longer – give us a call if you think you’re up to the challenge.
Firstly – rain does NOT matter! Bring a coat for getting changed – some of our meeting points are cliff-top carparks with no changing rooms, showers, hot-tubs…. It’s the price we pay for going to amazing places!
Sometimes strong winds from certain directions and unusually large swells can cause us to move or postpone a coasteer. We can usually fall back to one of our more protected routes but occasionally that’s not possible. If your session is rescheduled and you can’t make it, or cancelled – you will be refunded in full. This doesn’t happen often during the summer.
We don’t as a rule take photos simply because our guides need to focus entirely on keeping you safe and happy. We also believe there’s value in experiencing a thing completely, without the distraction of thinking about recording it.
If you have a GoPro or action cam (that’s waterproof) it’s no problem if you’d like to bring it along. Helmet mounts don’t really work but if you have a floaty handle or a lanyard that can be safely attached that’s all good.
