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Highlights
- Catch waves with expert guidance from national champion Bec, enhancing your paddleboarding skills in a supportive environment.
- Learn essential techniques like wave selection and feet positioning, ensuring a safe and thrilling surfing experience.
- Enjoy tailored sessions at beginner-intermediate locations, prioritising safety while you soak up the ocean's beauty.
- Challenge yourself with provided fibreglass SUP surfboards, leaving with a huge smile and salty hair after each lesson.
Take your stand-up paddleboarding experience to the next level with SUP surfing at Stand Up Paddle Boarding Shellharbour. Perfect for confident paddlers ready to feel the thrill of catching waves, this experience blends paddling with the excitement of surfing—no prior surf experience required!
Led by national SUP surfing champion and owner, Bec, sessions are tailored to your ability, ensuring a supportive and empowering environment. You’ll learn essential techniques like wave selection, feet positioning, and how to safely ride your first waves. Whether you’re looking to build confidence or master new skills, the friendly and experienced instructors will guide you every step of the way.
Lessons operate at suitable beginner-intermediate locations, depending on weather and conditions, always prioritising safety and fun. All equipment is provided, including a selection of fibreglass SUP surfboards. If you want to use your own fibreglass SUP, please use promo code “OWNSUP” for a $10 discount. Wetsuit hire is available for just $10.
SUP surfing with Stand Up Paddle Boarding Shellharbour offers the perfect way to challenge yourself, soak up the ocean, and leave with a huge smile and salty hair.
Tour details
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Available from 27 March 2026 to 1 January 2030
Features
Service facilities
Actively welcomes people with access needs.
General access
- Offers multiple options for booking – web, email, phone is available.
- Offers a range of contact methods for receiving complaints.
- Companion Cards are accepted.
- Employs people with disabilities.
- Staff are trained in disability awareness.
- Accessibility information and photos, including of a bathroom, room and/or floor plan on their website (can be emailed on request).
- Asks all visitors if there are any specific needs to be met.
- Advise tour guides of the access needs of guests at the time of booking (includes pick up and drop off requirements)
- Assistance with booking arrangements (includes providing clear itineraries with written instructions on what to do at various destinations)
Communication
Welcomes and assists people who have challenges with learning, communication, understanding and behaviour. (includes people with autism, intellectual disability, Down syndrome, acquired brain injury (ABI), dyslexia and dementia)
- Staff are trained in communicating with people with learning or behavioural challenges.
- Uses Plain English / easy read signage and information (includes menus and emergency information)
- A quiet space is available at the venue/ facility.
Vision
Caters for people who are blind or have vision loss.
- Information in large print is available.
- Staff are trained in customer service for people with vision loss (training would incorporate way finding and communicating with people with vision loss).
- An appropriate area for toileting an assistance dog is available.
Hearing
Caters for people who are deaf or have hearing loss.
- Staff are trained in communicating with people who are deaf or have hearing loss.
- A low noise reception areas with hearing loss friendly acoustics and adequate lighting for viewing facial expressions (includes common areas which are free of background noise, background music) is available.
Physical – Mobility
Caters for people with sufficient mobility to climb a few steps but who would benefit from fixtures to aid balance. (This includes people using walking frames and mobility aids)
- Seating in common areas including reception area
Physical – Wheelchair
Caters for people who use a wheelchair.
- Step free outdoor pathways (includes picnic areas, barbecues and shelters)
- A step free main entrance to the building and/or reception area (includes ramps or slopes with a maximum gradient of 1:14, otherwise are too steep for wheelchairs)
- An accessible public toilet which is unlocked.
- A wheelchair accessible toilet / shower and change room is available.
- Wheelchair access to amusements and activities including boats and bush trails (includes tour rides, skyways, trolley cars, flying fox, amusement rides and boating).
- At least one wheelchair accessible parking space with wheelchair accessible signage clearly displayed (International standards are 3200mm wide x 2500 mm high).
Access & Inclusion
An access and inclusion statement is available on the business website.
Operation information
Stand Up Paddle Boarding Shellharbour
Stand Up Paddle Boarding Shellharbour delivers unforgettable SUP adventures for all levels. Beginners can learn and build confidence, while experienced riders can chase the thrill of waves, all with expert instructors and top-quality gear.
As a mobile business, locations are chosen to match conditions. Reddall Reserve, Lake Illawarra has vast waterways and seal sightings; Minnamurra River for a calm meandering estuary with stingrays; and Belmore Basin, Wollongong – perfect for corporate groups near major hotels.
Led by owner Bec, a national SUP surfing champion, the passionate team combines skill, local knowledge, and storytelling to create more than just a paddle – it’s a lasting memory.
Operating seven days a week, including magical after dark sessions, SUP Shellharbour provides all equipment. Simply bring essentials like sunscreen, a towel, and water. With options from gentle paddles to SUP surfing, expect fun, fitness, and smiles and photos to prove it!
Accreditations
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Quality Tourism Accreditation
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Sustainable Tourism Accreditation by ATIC
Memberships
- New South Wales Business Chamber
- Regional Tourist/Tourism Association/Organisation
- Visitor Information Centre
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