Our Blog

Our family business has been operating for 17 years now and we would like to share with you some things we feel makes us unique.

Following a beautiful morning or afternoon on the water, when we are making our way back towards the main Akaroa wharf, we offer our passengers on board some refreshing homemade baking – a tasty chocolate chip cookie. Through the years there have been many recipe enquiries and questions about the origin of this incredibly delicious cookie, and we feel it is now time to give (some of) the answers.

Banks Track is one of the great New Zealand walks located on the southern-east side of Banks Peninsula, also known as 'The Wildside'. On this 31 km track, you walk over private farmland, through regenerated native bush, and along striking coastline.

This article is about what types of wildlife you may encounter when cruising with us. We have focused on the different dolphin, penguin and whale species. You are also welcome to download our A3 Akaroa Harbour Wildlife poster - Enjoy!

We have chosen to provide Akaroa Area School sponsorship for their reforestation project at Te Umu te Rehua/Hammond Point, as it's very much in line with our companies values of giving back to our local community as well as enhancing the environment through conservation, research & education.

Between September 2019 to September 2020 we offered guests the opportunity to be part of the Port Hills Revegetation Project - Te Kākahu Kahukura restoration project which also helped mitigate the carbon emissions produced by our experience. A total of $1,960 was raised and went directly towards planting and managing the native podocarp trees.