Sailing Safaris
📍 Vava'u, Tonga
About
30 years of tails.... The story of a Kiwi who sailed to Tonga and loved it so much he never left. Jon Beauchamp and Ongo Kaihea started sailing and watching whales together in 1991. Back then they had 1 sail boat, Ongo had another job and no-one else knew the whales were there! In 1993 they set up Sailing Safaris as the first Tongan whalewatch operator and only Tongan registered charter company.
Services: The warm seas and calm waters of Vava'u provide the perfect nursery for Southern humpback whales. Having spent their summer feeding in Antartica, they travel thousands of miles to mate and calve here in Vava'u. Our unique geography means Vava'u is the only place in the world where you can swim with whales in their natural environment in calm warm inland waters.