Koru’s Highlights from 2025

Wow that went fast! What amazing season where the sun shone, calm seas and some beautiful adventures both along the St Agnes C0oastline. With some amazing wildlife sightings notably the osprey that stayed with us for a month on the Helford and those lovely North Atlantic Grey seals were spotted in abundance from St Agnes and on the Helford.  We would like to thank our wonderful customers for kayaking with Koru. Here’s some of our highlights from 2025.

Corporate Paddling in partnership with Budock Vean Hotel and Helford River Cruises 

 

We teamed up with our sister company Helford River Cruises for mixed groups, weddings, birthday celebrations and corporate away days. DryRobe enjoyed the mix of boat and kayaks for their away day. It’s always great fun to get everyone out on the water and these guys all enjoyed a double dip together on Frenchman’s Creek and moored up off the Calamasak Beach. We were so inspired by this experience we teamed up with Cornwall Chamber of Commerce this year offering Wellness Kayak Networking with Koru at Budock Vean Hotel letting the water help the conversations flow! Tom said, “I’ve never heard a discussion about corporate loan interest rates on a kayak adventure before!”

Private Paddle Adventures with the choice to combine SUPs and kayaks 

Private trips for groups of up to 8 on the kayaks and 6 on the SUPs proved a popular addition to the Koru offering this year. Some just wanted a private trip for 2 for a special occasions, whilst others got a small group of friends and family together and enjoyed an exclusive experience. We’ve been offering Private Charters for years on our Helford River Cruises and now it can be enjoyed on our Koru Adventures too! It’s a bit cheaper too for a group at £50pp totally £400 for a group of 8 rather than £65pp. For larger groups we can sometimes increase capacity, just drop us an email enquiries@korukayaking.co.uk.

Discovering incredible caves at St Agnes

St Agnes is not only a marine conservation area, but also a World Heritage Site from the Cornish Mining Era. Kayaking along this coastline is like kayaking amongst a living museum. The mine shafts still have lengths of wood supporting the mines and addets as if the miners dropped their tools and left them just as we find them today. The cliffs have been carved out initially by pick and axe and then by machines as miners ruthlessly mined for iron ore, copper and other metals leaving a colourful display of the oxidised metals along the cliffs for us to enjoy today. Our kayakers have enjoyed looking out for the rusty orange of oxidised iron ore and oxidised bright green copper as we meandered through the caves and archways and along this stunning coastline.

The amazing St Agnes Wildlife 

The wildlife has taken over now with North Atlantic Grey seals popping up and the guillemots and razorbills roosting on the cliff ledges from May – July. This year they were more spread out rather than all huddled on the same ledge, but their distinctive bright white chests and jet black backs and small webbed feet are hard to miss as they soar down over the kayaks. Stunning seabirds that avoided extinction by living in inaccessible places who come into land to roost once a year, the rest of the year living out at sea. Ocean Sun fish have also been spotted in the high of summer. Dolphins can be spotted from afar, but alas they tend to be far out to sea and we are ever hopeful for another basking shark sighting, but non came by this season. Instead it was the North Atlantic Seals who were regularly spotted, always a joy to see.

Swims off secluded beaches on the Helford and St Agnes

Kayaking on the Helford and St Agnes we can get to some amazing secluded beaches only accessible from the water. Our customers always love these and felt exhilarated afterwards!

Discovering the North Atlantic Temperate Rainforests on the Helford

We have been kayaking along this beautiful stretch of water for 13 years and often looked up at the ancient oak trees ladened with moses, lichins and thought it looked like rainforest. Travelling to countries with tropical rainforests these beautiful forests reminded us of them. Recently they have been named temperate rainforest and their significance is been noted as they soak up carbon emissions a haven for birdlife too we would often stop at the end of Frenchman’s Creek and float in silence listening to the birdsong.

The amazing Helford Wildlife 

The woodland is also a haven for wildlife with grey herons, little egrets, kingfishers, sandpipers, green shanks and curlews just some of the birdlife we hear are we paddle along Frenchman’s Creek. The cormorants favouring the Helford River and groups of swans can often by seen gathering on the Helford Rivers and creeks and if you are lucky might hear and see a flyby, natures own Red Arrows!

The river is actually a river, a flooded valley making is special area of conservation interest. This year we noticed the sea grass on the low tide trips towards Durgan with fields of it floating just off Helford Passage on the way to Grebe beach. The sea grass also soaks up carbon emissions and is home to sea horses. In fact there’s a whole host of wildlife we can see, the crabs moving about, the scallops, breadcrumb sponge and fish darting about. “It’s like snorkling without getting you face wet.” said Hetty. “Apparently there’s even sharks and Hornbill Rays at just 7 metres deep!”

Ospreys and more this Autumn on the Helford 

We like to keep a seasonal blog of sightings on both coastlines, but Autumn really is a special time on the Helford with birds gathering to migrate to warmer climes. The Osprey stayed flying over the Helford for a month this year

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