Sapphire Coastal Adventures - Merimbula, Australia

Family owned business operating whale watching, discovery cruises, fishing charters and boat hire.


Our mission is to help you connect with the ocean.
We believe that the ocean is full of inspiration and are passionate about taking you on a journey of discovery.
We have owned and operated the Merimbula Marina since 2008. When we purchased the business it was primarily a fishing charter business that did some dolphin and whale watching tours.
We soon realised that whale watching was our passion and started to build this arm of our business. Back in those early years winter was a quiet time in Merimbula with not many people holidaying at this time of year. So with a young family to support we decided to take a risk and took our boat to Sydney for the winter.
We figured that there  

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were plenty of people in Sydney year round and thankfully the whales migrated past on their northern migration May to August. It was a success and what started as a way to get us through the winter has turned into a year round business - 'Go Whale Watching'. Running a business in Sydney gave us the income we needed to buy new boats and develop the whale watching tours we offered in Merimbula and helped us to become the company we are now.