Kayakasia

Name: Kayakasia
Address: 59C, Temple Street, Singapore, 058604, SG
Telephone: +65 97562040 / +65 81886225 (txt or watsapp for shop appt)
Price range: $$
Rating: 4.9

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Kayakasia Exploring southeast asia's waterways. Multi-day kayak touring trips and expeditions. Paddling is wonderful.

kayakasia is to experience as it is - the people, the culture, the vast archipelagos, thousands flowing rivers - with a kayak. With your own power, curiosity, humor, without strictures of time and place - all these and borrowing from our planet less than three inches of water at any one place.

01/03/2025

23/02/2025

On the Damier Trail, we paddled our kayaks to explore Raja Ampat’s amazing karst landscape as well as her underwater life.

22/02/2025

Paddled with this reef manta as it was cruising effortlessly against the strong currents. Mantas love swimming in the currents !

20/02/2025

Just some really good sunshine and salty air.
When it gets too hot, or when our minds get too bothered, the sea is always there for us.

17/02/2025

I don’t know what’s going on here. Many kilometers of plastic trash, not only on the surface but also suspended in the waters. We have a trip policy to bring out our own plastic trash from raja ampat back to Singapore for disposal, and seeing this just showed what little impact our ‘eco-policy’ can have.

15/02/2025

Manoel asked me on the second day of Raja Ampat : “can we see mantas here?” “I replied it was highly unlikely at Friwen island, as I had only seen them in specific locations around Raja Ampat. Would be so rare and amazing if we can see Mantas here! But no. Then ….! I had to be proven wrong again! BIG time…

14/02/2025

Manoel asked me on the first day of Raja Ampat : “can we see whales here?”I replied I had only seen pilot and false killer whales, so I don’t think we can see a ‘real whale’ on this trip. Would be so rare and amazing ! Then ….minutes after we set off for our warm up paddle ….

08/02/2025

Did a 22km paddle from Sembawang to Changi in excellent morning weather! But the highlight was at the end of the trip, where we saw many Kim Bak Lor (seabass) swimming in the shallows of Changi Beach.

I tried catching them with my hands, having practice this in Greenland!

Video: Adeline

03/02/2025

Fantastic news coming from Bohol ! The local Government had decided to suspend all whale shark watching activities.

In the past 4 years, many whale shark feeding businesses were set up for tourists in Bohol. These were bait and snorkel businesses, advertising ‘guaranteed’ swimming with whale sharks.

We had encountered these majestic fishes several times during our kayaking in Bohol, and wished these gentle giants to continue thriving in these waters. There would always be a livelihood vs nature debate. On a whole, a sensible approach would always be to encounter these creatures without baiting them. Hopefully local businesses can find a sustainable way to bring tourists to encounter the whale sharks in Bohol.

When we paddled in Bohol, there was always the anticipation of encountering cetaceans and whale sharks. The only whaling village in Philippines was here. Whales were once so plentiful a fleet of whaling vessels were based in the Bohol sea. And so well known was the whaling here that it was mentioned in the book Moby Dick.

We hope these whales would come back! And more whale sharks to come meet our kayaks!

https://www.boholchronicle.com.ph/2025/02/03/guv-to-suspend-all-whale-shark-watching-activities-in-bohol/

17/01/2025

Paddled within Pulau Ubin for the past 2 days and everyone and everything is loving the grey chilly windy rainy weather.

10/01/2025

Spent some time snorkelling with this amazing sea turtle in over the new year. Besides manta rays, sea turtles are another graceful swimmer of the reefs. Meeting them is always a joy.

09/01/2025

A quiet night kayak among the mangroves and an ominous moon halo.

08/12/2024

I wasn’t guiding yesterday but went down anyway to kaypoh (meddle). Anyway it was always good to find any excuse to paddle, get some exercise, and some sun. Paddled slowly along Ubin’s coast hoping to see the elusive tapir but only saw beaches full of trash. Yesterday’s waters was clear enough to make me want to paddle close to shore, above the transparent waters.

When the weather was good, water was good, meeting good people on the waters was even better.

30/11/2024

We spent the morning again hoping to meet a Manta, travelling to a little visited site known by the locals. 2 boats went out and we spent almost 2 hours among the islands, but only one manta came for one of the boats; some disappointment again this morning.

There are 2 species of manta rays in Raja Ampat, the reef manta and the giant oceanic mantas. Both are large though, with the ‘smaller’ reef mantas growing to 5 meters and the oceanic ones 7 meters. They have the largest brains of any fish, and sometimes it must have felt like they are the one who decide when they want to approach and when not…

And on this last day of our trip, after many attempts, what you searched for came looking for you. We were snorkelling before lunch - at one of the most vibrant reefs - when 2 Reef Mantas swam below us.

At this point, I felt that my unblemished record was safe. But what happened after lunch was serendipity, the manta way.

We were paddling after lunch, just meters from shore. To my utter shock, I saw a huge black manta breaching and crashing with a loud splash in front of me. I thought it was a whale because it was so large. I let out a loud cry, altering everyone to turn around, just in time, to see a second enormous oceanic manta leaping out of the water, with a somersault.

I see you now, the mantas would have said.

28/11/2024

We dropped a phone ! And spent some time looking for it. We knew where it was dropped and could see the bottom but just could not see it. We decided to rent 2 scuba set and go down and find it. It was around 10 meters down and it had to be down there. Good fortune shone though, when a group of Spanish divers swimming past found the phone and left the owner crying with joy! We could not thank them enough! It was always not about the value of the phone, but the sentimental memories
of the photos you had kept over the years that you want back.

For the first time since I came here, we did not see any mantas at Manta Sandy ! My gosh! We tried twice but I think the currents were just not strong enough.

After lunch, we spent the rest of the day snorkelling, beach lazing, and paddling among mini karst islands, before arriving at our final homestay. We had paddled and snorkelled almost 80km, and today will be our last day of paddling.

27/11/2024

It was Indonesia’s regional election yesterday and extremely quiet, no one was working and no boats on the sea.

We snorkelled 2.5km along the island, and perhaps because there were no boats, the fishes were out in huge numbers. A planned 500m snorkel became 2.5km as the currents were mild and the reefs just kept drawing us further and further.

We ran 2km around the village! Siesta in the afternoon. Watching sunrise and sunset, drinking beer by the beach in the evening…our life on an island village in Papua.

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59C, Temple Street
Singapore
058604

Telephone

+65 97562040 / +65 81886225 (txt or watsapp for shop appt)

Website

http://kayakasia.org/

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Videos

Wild Otters Pulau Ubin Singapore

The otters loved the rain falling in the mangroves as much as we did. So much so that they shared their space with us, as we glided quietly on kayaks past them, sharing a moment together under the falling rain. #otters #wildlife #pulauubin #singapore #mangroves #rainydays #river #kayaking #ecofriendly

Raja Ampat Kayak Snorkelling

On the Damier Trail, we paddled our kayaks to explore Raja Ampat’s amazing karst landscape as well as her underwater life. #snorkeling #rajaampat #indonesia #wildlifephotography #ocean #manta #whale #kayak #adventure #wildlife

Kayak reef manta raja ampat

Paddled with this reef manta as it was cruising effortlessly against the strong currents. Mantas love swimming in the currents ! #manta #rajaampat #kayaking #wildlife #marinelife #wildlifephotography #ocean

Plastic pollution raja ampat

Manta ray

Whale - raja ampat

Did a 22km paddle from Sembawang to Changi in excellent morning weather! But the highlight was at the end of the trip, where we saw many Kim Bak Lor (seabass) swimming in the shallows of Changi Beach. I tried catching them with my hands, having practice this in Greenland! Video: Adeline #fishing #kayaking #weekend #changi #handfishing #fishes #beach

Hand fishing (Singapore)

Fishing with hands

A sea turtle

Spent some time snorkelling with this amazing sea turtle in over the new year. Besides manta rays, sea turtles are another graceful swimmer of the reefs. Meeting them is always a joy. #rajaampat #turtle #seaturtle #snorkeling #coral

surf launch el nido

Last surf launch in El Nido this morning ! #surf #kayak #palawan

Ilulissat sunrise/sunset

Ilulissat - The Sun rose at 2:40am on May 19, and not setting again until 2:00am on July 24, staying continuously above the horizon for 2.1 months. In August, from 1st to 31st, daylight decreases by an average of 10minutes per day. Grace captured this timelapse of a sunrise/sunset on a June ‘night’ in Ilulissat. 📸 Grace #greenland #ilulissat #arctic #sunrise #sunset #kayaking #icebergs