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Great Barrier Reef Slideshow
Top Hotels in Great Barrier Reef
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Reef View Hotel Hamilton Island
556 reviews -
Whitsunday Apartments Hamilton Island
133 reviews
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Great Keppel Island Resort
43 reviews -
Palm Bungalows Hamilton Island
100 reviews
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Rendezvous Reef Resort Great Barrier Reef
2 reviews
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Eurong Beach Resort Fraser Island
65 reviews -
Magnetic Island Tropical Resort
8 reviews
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Sails On Horseshoe Magnetic Island
18 reviews
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Hotel Arcadia Magnetic Island
1 review
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Coral Point Lodge Shute Harbour
22 reviews
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Hamilton Island Resortside Apartments Great Barrier Reef
8 reviews
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Fraser Beachfront Holidays Poyungan Rocks Fraser Island
1 review
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Lagoon Lodge Whitsunday Islands
6 reviews
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Paradise Bay Eco Escape Long Island
244 reviews
Great Barrier Reef
Travel Blogs from Great Barrier Reef, Australia
(Martin) Laurence of Australia (& Kate)
This is a top pick! Get it? Laurence of Australia instead of Laurence of Arabia? Fraser Island = Sand = Arabia = Laurence = Martin. Well I liked it anyways. Sorry. Apologising at the start of a blog is never a good thing. An early start as promised. Alarm ...
On to the Whitsundays
This is a top pick! After a few hours of sleep I'm off to the airport to fly to Hamilton Island where I'm tasked with finding a hotel room on arrival. They are all quite expensive and I get myself a bungalow which isn't as nice as it should be for the price, but I ...
The Great Barrier Reef
This is a top pick! ... me before actually playing. After enjoying the breath-taking beach, we were off to scuba and snorkel on the reef. Unfortunately, visibility was poor due to recent wind and weather. The fish were awesome, but the coral wasn't ...
Fraser Island
This is a top pick! Chucking down with rain when we arrive in Hervey Bay and continues for the rest of the day. Staying at A1 Fraser Roving which is a pretty nice hostel. Raining again the next day and we get a storm that night - off to Fraser Island in the morning, if it ...
Wet and Windy in the Whitsundays - Day 2
This is a top pick! ... , Julia and Morine (although Morine didn’t talk too much due to the language difficulty) and really enjoyed ourselves. The girls were great throughout and we found them very easy to get on with. We slinked off to bed and tried sleeping the other way ...
D-I-N-G-O and Dingo was his Name-O
This is a top pick! ... . Also , we learned in the video that we had to watch out for Dingos. Dingos are wild dogs that were introduced to Australia and now roam free on the mainland and especially on the island. The video said that we were to avoid walking around alone and ...
Australia - Magnetic Island
This is a top pick! Day 1 Having stayed up late the previous night to watch the (ultimately disappointing) Liverpool-Chelsea football match, we were in no mood to be getting up early to catch a 4 hour coach journey to Townsville, and then onto Magnetic Island. ...
Wicked Whitsundays!
This is a top pick! ... yet - just using the engine) In the afternoon went to another bay where we all went snorkelling in the shallow coral reef. Was great coral and absolutely thousands of fish - felt like we were in Piccadilly Circus. Visibility not great due to weather ...
We are sailing, we are sailing
This is a top pick! ... life including turtles (at Turtle Bay funnily enough), dolphins, & whales - though v.v. far away. Went snokelling on the outer Barrier Reef - loads of clourful fish (couldn't find Nemo but still looking) & an abundence of coral in all shapes, sizes & ...
Magnetic Island
This is a top pick! A bit of a long trek as we catch the bus from mission to townsville and then a very to magnetic. Staying at Reefos which is more like a hotel than a hostel with an ensuite room and a tv, nice. Very friendly possums here that seem to have a tast for ...
Whitsunday Islands - Day 223
This is a top pick! Arrived at the docks in Airlie Beach early this morning to catch the boat to the Whitsunday Islands. I've opted for the ReefJet which is a fast catamaran, would have been nice to take one of the traditional sailing boats but I haven't got enough time ...
Fraser Island - Day 225-226
This is a top pick! ... way to see the island from a completely different perspective. We took off and landed on "75 mile beach" which was a great experience, well worth the 75 bucks. The island is surprisingly very green, consisting mostly of thick rainforest, pockets of ...
Fraser Island
This is a top pick! We did the two day tour of Fraser Island. Michael didn't want to do the self drive (you can hire a jeep and self tour the island with a load of other backpackers) which was fair enough, so we did a bus tour which has a driver. Warning: ...
When it sucks to be traveling...
This is a top pick! So here I am in an absolute paradise and I'm SICK!!! Yes, I have somehow managed to catch a cold/flu in 90 degree weather!!! I had originally planned to go on hikes and lay by the pool overlooking the beach (since we can't swim in the water due to ...
M and M...Mission Beach and Magnetic Island
This is a top pick! ... tree. Its the first wild one we had seen and he, or she, was just sat on a branch, chewing away on leaves. It was great. That night we cooked curry and drank wine, feeding the possums which were so friendly and tame. So tame that whe you tried to shoo ...
The Reef
This is a top pick! ... out and about with plenty of Nemos and a huge giant Napoleon Wrasse around 2m long gliding past us. With my time on the Great Barrier Reef over we all relaxed for the journey back to Cairns as I wondered how many of the photos I took would actually be ...
White Heaven
This is a top pick! ... ray and some big coral formations although it did feel like we were just diving off a beach rather than on the Great Barrier Reef although the islands are technically in the middle of it. While the rest of the boat got some introductory dives Team ...
Part racehorse, part clydesdale
This is a top pick! ********************* 16th February 25 minute ferry ride out of Townsville to Magnetic Island. It's such a beautiful place. Arriving here in the Australian summer is frustrating. It's so hot and the water is so inviting but everywhere there are ...
Fraser Island
This is a top pick! ... (island of paradise). In 1770 Cooky discovered this part of OZ and thinking it was attached to the mainland named it Great Sandy Peninsula. In 1822 Captain Edwardson corrected Cooky's shoddy mapwork and renamed it the Great Sandy Island. In 1858 it was ...
Wet and Windy in the Whitsundays - Day 1
This is a top pick! ... I find it amusing watching Kate squirm as food is poured into the bin. We open up our Goon bag (Goon is a cheap wine in Australia and everyone called our wine goon although it wasn’t – we actually paid quite a lot for it! Goon is associated ...
Let's Off Road!!
This is a top pick! Hello, glad you could join us. Now before we start a quick apology to both sets of parents. We know we said we wouldn't venture into the bush alone. So sorry, because the weekend just gone we decided to hire a 4X4 jeep, jump on a ferry & drive around ...
The Land of Sand
This is a top pick! ... bra on. To better understand the roads let me explain Fraser a little better. Fraser Island is the largest sand island in australia, and maybe the world. There are only major rocks in three places, everything else is sand. And somehow growing in all ...
Fraser Island 4WD Tours
This is a top pick! *********************************** Tuesday 3rd February Fraser Island is the largest sand island in the world and home to the purest strain of Australian dingoes. Most of the backpackers do a self-drive option which actually means you hire a 4wd ...
"Living the 5 star luxury life..."
This is a top pick! ... up the plane! Plus not only did we have a private plane, but it was also a seaplane, something i hadn't travelled in yet. I took great pleasure telling Dan, who instead of coming with us, had booked a hire car and returned to Bowen for his last day of ...
Cast Off
This is a top pick! Despite the meatballs in the night drunkenly stumbling in switching on the light and waking everyone else up with their intelligible ramblings I still took my stuff outside the dorm early in the morning to pack to get ready to set sail for the ...
Norwegian Nightmare
This is a top pick! ... trees to climb up above the beach for a bit of shark-spotting. In the clear water below we saw three fairly small (3-4 feet) reef sharks and then a tiger shark easily twice as long. Even from a very safe distance I think all our norges quivered. I'd like ...
A Man and a Women
This is a top pick! ... was really directing, and some of them went far too deep, but, finally, I see a shark, just resting on the bottom - A reef shark, that dont normally go for humans, but, though smaller than Jaws, looked intimidating! Monday 22nd November 2004 Its 6am ...
Air Fraser
This is a top pick! ... 'd just taken off. The views were fantastic, I saw lake McKenzie, Lake Waddy, the rainforest, and the view of the beach and Pacific was amazing. Another great sight over, and time for an early night in prepartion for a full days travel to Byron ...
Finding Nemo
This is a top pick! ... never been a strong swimmer or a lover of the seas, but having come to the most famous and largest reef in the world (the Great Barrier Reef National Marine Park is bigger than the entire United Kingdom) there was no way I wasn't going to dive. So after a ...
Paradise on the Reef
This is a top pick! ... of Little Fitzroy for a spectacular view, then back down through a cave. Flippers on again and it was back into the Great Barrier Reef where we were promised we'd see even biggerfish - we did! We've got some amazing photos we took with an ...