Get Out Expeditions

ABOUT THE TEAM AND VENUES

Instructors/Guides

Get Out Expeditions has an excellent track record for safety, comfort and satisfaction. The guides have handled participants as young as 6 and as old as 73 in outdoor pursuits. Get Out Expeditions have not had any deaths or serious injury occur on any of it's expeditions since inception.

All our guides or group leaders are properly trained and ever conscious of adhering to our strict regulations, ensuring clients’ physical as well as emotional safety.

Where appropriate, guides are accredited with the APA (African Paddling Association), MDT (Mountaineering Development and Training Programme) and THETA (Tourism, Hospitality and Sport Education and Training Authority).

VENUES
Get Out Expeditions do not own a site, but prefers to use sites managed by other organisations and people. This enables the variety of programmes and the suiting of client needs.

Ballotts Bay Bundu Camps
Most youth camps are run at Ballotts Bay Bundu Camps of which Get Out Expeditions co-ordinates all the activities. This site is situated 15 minutes from George and the airport, and has the sea as a border on the one side, a river on the other and a coastal nature reserve on the third. Allthough it is just outside of town it feels like you are far away from the hustle and bustle of town. Indigenous forrests in the ravines and Bontebok and Black Wildebeest on the hills make this private nature reserve and ideal place to get out to without going to far.

Outeniqua Nature Reserve
The Outeniqua Nature Reserve is situated on the slopes of the Outeniqua mountains and is managed by Cape Nature Conservation. It is a mountainous area with several rivers originating in the back of the mountains. The Kloofing concession held by Get Out Expeditions and another company is also part of this Nature Reserve. A further attribute is the hiking and climbing routes that form part of this reserve. A 4X4 route travels over the Outeniqua Mountains from the Little Karroo to the coast.

Baviaanskloof Wilderness Area
This Wilderness Area covers a vast amount of mountainous area, most of which has never been altered by human activity. Baviaanskloof has been given the name because of all the baboons that were found there in the days of old. Five plant kingdoms conglomerate here as well as a big array of animal species. Leopards, Eland, Kudu and, of course baboons, roam freely; birdlife (including the Knysna Loerie) is abundant and a few members of the lizard family can also be spotted. This is one of the last truly wild areas that can be explored.