Norman Reef Cairns

Cairns , Queensland, Australia - Phone: 61 7 4041 7536
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    Reef

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    The Barrier Reef is truly Great

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    After a super early start to get us down to the docks and onto the Ocean Quest we found out we were in fact about an hour and a half early. Grrrrrr. Still, the sun was still pretty low and the temperature was not too bad, so we just sat on a bench snoozing until it was time to go.

    The Ocean Quest was a really nice boat, staffed by Deep Sea …

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    Encounters with cuttlefish

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    ... , which would soon be shoving us out the way again. A morning dive on the same reef was also very rewarding. Norman reef had a few tunnels to swim through, which were the daytime hiding places of nocturnal squirrelfish, who gazed at us with huge eyes ...

  • 2

    Cairns and the Great Barrier Reef

    ... one area, 99% of the Reef is tourist free and therefore you would hope pristine. After a low quality lunch we moved to Norman Reef, about 10 minutes away. It was a similar story, the coral was beautiful but not that colourful and damaged and dead in ...

  • 3

    Diving the Great Barrier Reef

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    ... his extensive knowledge really made the dive enjoyable. We even went through the "Tunnel of Love" one of the caves on the North Norman Reef. Another one is called the "Tunnel of Death" and didn't seem quite as inviting. The very last dive of the trip ...

  • 4

    27th - lazy day! you wouldn't believe how ...

    ... (no wet suits required as the stingers stay in shore) and we plunged (I slid) off the boat and into the warm water of Norman Reef. We started off at about 40m depth which felt a bit scary but we were already surrounded by fish. 10-15m from the boat ...

  • 5

    Bring on the East Coast

    ... The trip was amazing. We got a speed boat out to the far side of the Great Barrier Reef and did dives at numerous sites on Norman Reef.  That first day we did 4 dives, including a night dive which was just amazing. During the day we had seen ...

  • 6

    A Break from doing next to nothing...

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    ... Reef.  The first dive on OceanQuest (the boat I would be living on for 3 days/2 nights) was at a dive site called Norman Reef-Platetop.  Getting to see the reef after 2 days of hearing about it in the classroom was amazing.  Everything was ...

  • 7

    Diving on the Great Barrier Reef

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    Diving on the Great Barrier Reef! This was something I was definitely looking forward to! I was told by others to do a live aboard to get farther out and away from all of the day trip tours. I did that but we had a transfer boat ...

  • 8

    Atlantic Clipper......

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    ... swimming backwards to the boat and decided a cup of coffee sounded really good. After breakfast we sailed to a new reef, South Norman Reef. S. Norman Reef, was a shallow reef on top of it, but was almost like swimming along a wall when you were beside ...

  • 9

    Cairns and the Great Barrier Reef

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    ... permanently on the reef called the Reef Encounter; we are transferred on another vessel and spend the majority of the time heading between Hastings Reef, Norman Reef, and Saxon Reef, fairly close to the outer edge of the GBR. There's 4 of us from the ...

  • 10

    Visiting the Great Barrier Reef

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    ... smooth Cairns fitted into the beautiful landscape of the surrounding mountains. After a bit more than half an hour we arrived at the Norman reef. After a short instruction we were released into the warm waters of the reef, in the middle of a swarm of big ...