Mossman River - Stand Up Paddle Boarding Tour - Rainforest River - Port Douglas - WSWEL

Mossman River - Stand Up Paddle Boarding Tour - Rainforest River - Port Douglas - WSWEL

With only a short SUP lesson from your tour guide instructor you’ll feel like a pro within minutes. With a maximum of 16 guests in each stand up paddle board group, it’s great to go with a bunch of friends or as a family.  As long as you can stand, you can go stand up paddle boarding or SUP boarding!  So for all of you armchair athletes out there, this is a great way to explore amazing scenery with one of the easiest and most accessible sport there is. 

Your stand up paddle boarding (SUP) tour will take you through a Daintree Rainforest river where you will see passing electric blue Ulysses butterflies or a turtle basking on a rock. One thing you won’t see is a crocodile as they don’t inhabit this area of the River. You will get to taste exotic fruits, so if you have never eaten Dragonfruit or Black Sapote, prepare yur taste buds for a treat. 

You can also go in for a swim in the crystal clear refreshing water or swing like Tarzan from a rope swing.

On the way back – forget standing up – just lie back on your board and drift down with the current watching the rainforest canopy glide by above you!

This is an ideal half day tour for families, children from the age of 10 can have their own board, all children's ability will be assessed, if they can't SUP board on their own they can join their parents on a board with a life jacket (supplied).

Half Day Afternoon SUP Tour | Rainforest River | Port Douglas | WND-SWL 

You will be picked up from your holiday accommodation in Port Douglas at around 2:00pm and taken along the sugar cane lined fields to the Mossman River. Please note a minimum 2 guests is required.

Your stand up paddle tour will start on the upper reaches of the Mossman River. The river starts just below the Devils Thumb at an altitude of 1050m (3400 ft). This is crystal clear Rainforest water, straight from the rainforest clouds, that is making its way down to the Coral Sea and the waters of the Great Barrier Reef. 

For SUP beginners, you will have a skill session given by your tour guide/instructor.  You will be taught the safety rules of stand up paddle boarding, how to paddle as well as what to look for in this amazing environment. Once on the water on your stand up paddleboard you will be given another short skill circuit before heading off up the River. With always the best advice that if you’re not sure.. just sit down!

After launching your SUP boards you will feel almost like you are walking on water. As you traverse down the river with just the sounds of the water and the rainforest wildlife you feel like you are going into a journey of oneness with nature.

The current isn’t strong, so you will drift slowly and find you only need to paddle now and again for direction purposes.

The Daintree Rainforest is the oldest Rainforest in the world and you will see ferns and trees that have been there from prehistoric times. 

48 families of fish varieties, 33 species of aquatic amphibians and reptiles have been identified in the Mossman River alone and some are still unidentified, so you will likely paddle past new unknown species.

Identifiable species that you may see on your trip that inhabit the Mossman River are Jungle Perch, Perchlets, Trevally Bream and Tilapa. You might even see a turtle on a rock or a harmless tree snake… and in case you are wondering…. crocodiles don’t inhabit this part of the river.

After about 45/60 minutes you will have a break on a sandy riverbank ‘beach’. There’s nothing better to whet the appetite than freshly picked exotic fruit.  Your taste buds will love you as you taste the juicy purple flesh of the Dragronfruit, or a juicy mango, or a Black Sapote that tastes exactly like chocolate pudding without the calories! 

Your tour guide will also give you the history of the fruits. On the way back you’ll be drifting with the current so just lie back on your board and look up as the rainforest canopy passes you bye. This is ultimate chilling!

When you get back you will finish your wonderful adventure with a unique natural body scrub using the ochre clays found on the banks of the river.

This is going to be a memorable afternoon!

Other Tours Available

• Low Isles Kitesurfing & Stand Up Paddle Boarding Tour

This is a full day tour to Low Isles off Port Douglas including kitesurfing and stand up paddle boarding as well as free time to visit the island. Snorkel equipment is provided so you can explore the clear waters of this island paradise famous for its sea turtle population.

• Snapper Island, Cape Tribulation

Whizz on the fast boat to this idyllic uninhabited island 15 nautical miles north of Port Douglas off Cape Tribulation.  This island is on the SE corner of the Daintree National Park.  Great for snorkelling, sea kayaking or stand up paddleboarding.

• Undine Cay

On the fast boat you will be at this iconic Cay – like you are arriving in a holiday commercial.  Pristine white sands with the turquoise, clear emerald waters of the surround Coral Sea. It’s a slightly longer journey than Snapper Island by another few miles and is located just off Cape Tribulation National Park

See more Daintree Rainforest tours and attractions.