About Adventure Wanaka
Adventure Wanaka is a locally owned, family-run lake touring company offering fishing charters, scenic cruises, island walks, and stargazing tours on Lake Wanaka and Lake Hawea. Their experienced skippers have decades of knowledge of the lakes' hidden bays, best fishing spots, and most scenic corners, giving guests an intimate and authentic way to explore the region by water.
The fishing charters target trophy brown and rainbow trout using jigging, trolling, and fly-fishing techniques, with all rods, tackle, and bait supplied. Scenic cruises head out to Mou Waho Island or explore the remote northern reaches of the lake, while guided island walks combine a boat ride with a bushwalk through native beech forest to a hidden alpine lake. After dark, their stargazing cruises take advantage of Wanaka's minimal light pollution for spectacular Southern Hemisphere astronomy.
What distinguishes Adventure Wanaka is the personal, small-group approach — most trips are private or semi-private charters, so guests set the pace. The combination of fishing, cruising, and nature walks under one operator makes it easy to fill multiple days on the water, and their local insight into weather, wildlife, and secret spots is hard to match.
