How can I get to the herbivore island (south haven)?

[WyoGuy]

Is it possible just to swim there? Or do I need a raft? Thank you!

[Mohammad Ayyoob al-Daoud]

raft/flying dino

[Forger of Souls]

I swam there, but I have boosted stats for humans, my oxygen was at 2100, so I outswam everything.

[Ceftriaxone]

You can swin to there , theres a small island in between where you can regain stamina

[Jynn]

Just watch for sharks and manta rays...it'd be better to use a raft, to be on the safe side and not risk losing anything

[Magictina]

I would not just swim there, the water is full of sharks and Mantas, to be on the safe side, tame yourself a Ptera or build a raft

[Mohammad Ayyoob al-Daoud]

Originally posted by WyoGuy:

Is it possible just to swim there? Or do I need a raft? Thank you!

and you wanna get a raft or something because you might run out of resources (ofc you will) build a raft and make some storage boxes and get a ton of resources before doing this

[slimfast]

I imagine you don't need this information at this point, but for anyone else that might happen upon this: You CAN swim to Herbivore Island/South Haven, but your chances of avoiding aggro from a Megalodon and/or Manta aren't good, and if you aggro either, you're pretty much toast.

At level 10, you can make a Parasaur saddle. If my math is correct, a tamed Parasaur should be able to outswim a Megalodon, and should be able to outswim a Manta with like 3 points into movement speed.

The safest bet is to wait til lvl 15 to get a raft, then it's cake, but the Parasaur route 'should' work as well.

Real quick on the math: ARK Wiki says Parasaur base swim speed is 450. A Parasaur gets a +67% movement speed bonus when tamed. So, taking 450 x 1.67 should give the after-taming swimming figure, which is ~752. A wild Megalodon swims at 400 default, and 570 when sprinting. So, even a sprinting Megalodon will still not be even close to the swim speed of a tamed Parasaur. A Manta's default swim speed is 600 - still too slow. However, a Manta's sprinting speed is listed at 780. I'm unsure how effective oxygen is for increasing a tamed dino's speed, but 3 points into movement speed increase should bring the Parasaur's movement speed up to 792, which is just enough to outrun a Manta. If points spent in Oxygen gives a +6% bonus to swim speed to tamed dinos like it does to humans/players, then just two points into Oxygen should make the Parasaur faster than anything you're likely to encounter on the way to South Haven/Herbivore Island.