Great Barrier Reef Cruises

... Magnetic Island, so named by Captain Cook because his compass went crazy when he sailed past in 1770. Welcome to the Great Barrier Reef! We will be transferred to our accommodation and we'll spend the afternoon sea kayaking and snorkeling for wildlife in ...

... 's Tourism Center to discover our options for exploring one of the great natural wonders of the world: the Great Barrier Reef. While we thought multi-day dive cruises would leave the city daily, the very helpful, but slightly flamboyant 'volunteer of the ...

... -the-world voyage. But the high point of Cairns, and the main reason we chose to go there, was the Great Barrier Reef. This is the reason most travelers come to northern Queensland. There are actually many ports from which to cruise out ...

There are a lot of tours to review before choosing one; The Great Barrier Reef is a 5 Billion dollar industry in Australia.  Although it is regarded as the treasure it is, and all are cautioned to not touch or retrieve anything from it, I have to ...

... was called the Anaconda 3. We mainly chose this boat because it not only cruises around the whitsundays but also goes out to the great barrier reef and we also had a private cabin. We set sail at night time for our three day trip. We had an amazing first ...

... either of these little charmers, but I gave it about a 20 metre berth all the same. We were swimming over coral reef. The Great Barrier Reef actually, which in its entirety covers an area well over the size of Great Britain. You can’t really miss ...

... 3 dagen 3 nachten tour op nen duikboot/catamaran. We kozen voor deze tour omdat dit een van weinige was die naar de great barrier reef ging om te duiken. O de dag van ons vertrek lazen we op het internet een superslechte ervaring van iemand die dezelfde ...

... ! (And I can't for the life of me remember the name of them!) We were chuffed to be swimming in part of Australia's Great Barrier Reef, and found ourselves wanting to rush up to Cairns to book a dive in the outer reef. The Whitsundays boast seventy-four ...

... the harbour and headed towards the Whitsundays. The Whitsundays are series of Islands which are located just outside of the Great Barrier Reef. Unlike other cruises ours included 2 nights stay in a "resort" as opposed to sleeping on the boat. So, after ...

... which would have killed them all off. This is the same man who built a luxury hotel on the coast only to realise that the barrier reef blocked the larger cruise vessels from getting to his hotel. He phoned the council to ask what would happen to him if he ...

... morning, I was picked up at 7:30 for the 40-minute drive to Port Douglas, the embarkation point for most cruises from this area to the Great Barrier Reef. The drive, along the coast, was stunning: on one side, forest-clad mountains and on the other, ...

... in my previous entry, I did a cruise around the Whitsunday Islands.  I went snorkeling for the first time and saw the Great Barrier Reef.  I should preface this by saying I'm not a strong swimmer, so I feel very out of my element when I'm in ...

How to get extremely lucky as a backpacker - rock up to the harbour in Cairns around 7 am with no Great Barrier Reef booking, charm the silver-haired captain of Ocean Spirit Cruises, who as if by magic lets you board the luxury cruise to Michaelmas Cay ...

... The yacht was gorgeous and there were only eleven of us which let the boat have access to more remote and secluded reef locations than the larger, booze cruises could go too.  We just booked a shared bunk which turned out to still be a double so the ...