Journey Outdoors In Nature (JOIN)
Highlights
- Paddle the wild waters of the Upper Clarence River, enhancing your connection with nature and self.
- Camp under the stars at Clarence River Wilderness Lodge, creating lasting memories around the campfire.
- Experience guided adventures with Paddle Australia-qualified instructors, ensuring safety and personal growth throughout your journey.
- Immerse in the tranquility of multi-day canoeing trips, allowing the river's rhythms to teach you about trust and flow.
Journey Outdoors in Nature (JOIN) offers guided whitewater canoe journeys and wilderness adventures that help people reconnect with what matters most – nature, community, and themselves. Based on the wild rivers of Northern NSW, including the Clarence Canoe and Kayak Trail, JOIN invites you to slow down, breathe deeply, and find your flow.
Their adventures blend skill and presence – where paddling becomes meditation, campfires turn into conversations that matter, and each rapid teaches something about trust and letting go. Led by experienced, Paddle Australia–qualified guides, every journey balances safety, play, and personal growth.
Whether you’re chasing adventure, marking a milestone, or simply craving time offline and outdoors, JOIN creates transformative river experiences that awaken your aliveness. From multi-day expeditions to custom private trips, you’ll return home more confident, more connected, and more in love with life.
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Tour/s
Flow
Find yourself in the flow
Through white-water paddling, still-water moments, and shared adventure, you’ll build your confidence and your capacity to trust the flow. Our guides work in co-creation with the river itself – reading its moods, respecting its rhythms, and helping you do the same. With calm presence, skilled instruction, and deep trust in nature’s intelligence, they create experiences that invite courage, play, and reconnection with the strength that comes from belonging to something larger than yourself.
Adapt
Find your balance in the unknown.
When life throws you a curveball, do you freeze, fight, or flow? ADAPT invites you to step away from the noise and into the wilderness – where uncertainty becomes your greatest teacher.
Immersed in a multi-day canoeing journey, far from technology and routine, you’ll learn to meet change with curiosity instead of control. Guided by skilled instructors and the rhythm of the river, you’ll practice trusting your instincts, communicating clearly, and finding steadiness when things get unpredictable.
Each day blends adventure with reflection: morning wellness to centre your body and mind, paddling sessions to test your adaptability, and fireside moments that invite laughter, honesty, and insight. Together, we co-create with nature – reading her moods, responding to her cues, and rediscovering how resilience grows from connection, not control.
This journey is for those ready to reset their nervous system, loosen their grip, and remember the ease that comes from moving with life’s greater flow.
Connect (NVC Canoe Journey)
The greatest remedy for prolonged lockdowns and social distancing is here: A Wilderness immersion like no other, delving deep into the art of authentic connection.
Come join them and rediscover:
Yourself
During the Morning Wellness Sessions. While being supported to process big emotions and actively reflect on your life, your longings, the stories you carry and the strategies you use to meet your needs by nurturing your body with delicious, fresh, local, organic food.
Your sense of Community
Through Daily Nonviolent Communication practice to deepen connection.
Immersed in the joys and challenges of communal living, as we travel downstream as a tribe carrying everything we need to survive and thrive and live a simple nomadic co-existence.
3 sessions post-trip and a buddy practice to support reintegration into your home life and all the complexities that involves.
Your connection to Nature
Plenty of rivers, rapids and remoteness – we’ll take you places you can only get to by canoe
Wilderness campsites with more than 5 stars
Fresh air to breathe, freshwater to drink, trees to hug and creatures to admire
Opportunities for growth, some planned and others emerging from the unpredictable nature of travelling through the wilderness
20 – 28th March
Memberships
- Regional Tourist/Tourism Association/Organisation
Activities
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