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Salty Safaris Adventures

About Salty Safaris Adventures

We couldn't find

the trip we wanted.

So we built it.

What we do

Small-group adventures.

Done properly.

Twelve people. A guide who knows this coastline better than almost anyone. And a trip built around the parts of Australia that most people visiting here never find. That is what every Salty adventure looks like, whether it is a three-day surf retreat at Pacific Palms, a hike through the Royal National Park, a session at Sydney's wave pool, or a fully custom trip built around your group.

Salty Safaris Adventures
Salty Safaris Adventures

How it started

Built from scratch.

For years, Dan and Conrad travelled up and down the New South Wales coast the way people do when they genuinely love a place. Finding uncrowded waves, learning which spots reward the effort to reach them, and building up 30 years of local knowledge between them. At some point, sharing that with people became the obvious thing to do. Salty is what that looks like.

The people behind every trip

Meet Dan and Conrad.

Salty Safaris Adventures

Co-founder · Surf Coach · Local Knowledge

Dan O'Connell

Dan grew up with the ocean as his playground and has been coaching and guiding for over 15 years. He knows how to read a group, find the right waves for the right people, and make sure everyone goes home having pushed themselves further than they expected. His easy-going nature makes the whole thing feel effortless.

Salty Safaris Adventures

Co-founder · Adventure Guide · Explorer

Conrad Pattinson

Conrad has spent years guiding people through some of Australia's most stunning coastal regions. His passion is finding the experiences that go beyond the typical — hidden beaches, untouched breaks, and the parts of this coastline that most people never find. He is your connection to the real Australia.

What makes Salty different

This is how we do it.

01

Small groups. Always.

Twelve people maximum on every trip. That is the number where you actually meet people, where the guide knows your name, and where the trip feels like it was built for you rather than the other way around.

02

Guides who live this.

Dan and Conrad have spent years exploring this coastline, finding the spots that never make it onto any map and working out exactly when and why they are worth the effort. That is what you get on every Salty trip.

03

Places you won't find alone.

The best spots on this coastline take real local knowledge to reach. Most people never know they exist, and that is exactly the point. That is where Salty takes you.

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Salty Safaris Adventures

Our commitment

We built this business

around these places.

The Royal National Park, Pacific Palms, Sydney's Northern Beaches, the Blue Mountains. These places are not the backdrop for a Salty trip. They are the reason for it. Keeping groups small is part of how we look after them. Twelve people move through a place more carefully than forty, and they tend to leave it the way they found it. Every trip we run is built around helping people fall properly in love with this coastline, because that is the best reason to protect it.

Ready to come?

Your people

are out there.

Come find them.

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