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Standbycairns.com 'Reef' category offers great barrier reef day tours, cruises and activities departing from Cairns, and Port Douglas. These include unique reef experiences such as Upolu Cay Reef Cruise, Great Barrier Reef adventure, Green Island Cruise, Diving and snorkelling on the Great Barrier Reef, Michaelmas Cay Day Cruise, Frankland Island cruise and Green Island sailing. These activities are available from Great Adventures, Big Cat, Silverswift, Silversonic, Ocean Spirit, Ocean Free, Passions of Paradise, Reef Magic Cruises, Quicksilver Cruises, Sunlover Cruises, and Deep Sea Divers Den.
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ARISTOCAT - Fast, Streamlined, Smooth & Spacious ARISTOCAT take you to the reef habitats in style, comfort & safety. With over 40 sites on 16 reefs to choose from including the renowned Agincourt Ribbon Reef system, ARISTOCAT provide interactive snorkelling and scuba diving on the Great Barrier Reef second to none. A bonus activity during June - September is Whale Watching as they migrate past the reef. Reef tours depart daily and offer - snorkelling & scuba diving for beginners and advanced divers alike. more info » |
from $66.00
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A half day reef cruise departing Cairns at 1.00pm allows 2 hours on Green Island and arrives back in Cairns at 5.00pm. "Reef Rocket" is a modern comfortable air-conditioned highspeed catamaran with a relaxed atmosphere. Travel time to Green Island is 45 minutes from Cairns. Passengers can take part in the many activities available or simply relax on the beach. Our friendly crew will help you to organise your activities to make the most of your time on Green Island. Green Island is a beautiful coral cay on Australia's Great Barrier Reef. Green Island is a Marine National Park with unique rainforests, surrounded by white sandy beaches and magnificent coral reefs and abundant marine life. more info » |
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A half day reef cruise departing Cairns at 9.00am allows 2 hours on Green Island and arrives back in Cairns at 12.45pm. "Reef Rocket" is a modern comfortable air-conditioned highspeed catamaran with a relaxed atmosphere. Travel time to Green Island is 45 minutes from Cairns. Passengers can take part in the many activities available or simply relax on the beach. Our friendly crew will help you to organise your activities to make the most of your time on Green Island. Green Island is a beautiful coral cay on Australia's Great Barrier Reef. Green Island is a Marine National Park with unique rainforests, surrounded by white sandy beaches and magnificent coral reefs and abundant marine life. more info » |
from $66.00
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Big Cat's state of the art Reef Rocket catamaran travels from Cairns Marina to Green Island, 15 nautical miles (27 kilometres) from Cairns daily. Departing at 11:00am daily from the Reef Fleet Terminal in Cairns. Passengers spend four hours on Green Island and arrive back in Cairns at 5pm. Big Cat's purpose built Reef Rocket has spacious interior asw ell as outside decks to enjoy the warm, tropical climate. Passengers will therefore be ensured of a comfortable and relaxed journey to the Great Barrier Reef.more info » |
from $250.00
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Discover world renowned Green Island the easy way by choosing from a range of departure times for a 10 minute flight to this tropical paradise. Here you have two hours to indulge yourself in nature, snorkel or just settle back at the luxurious Green Island Resort before your return flight to Cairnsmore info » |
from $250.00
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Discover the world renowned Green Island the easy way by choosing a range of departure times for a 10 minute flight to this tropical paradise. Here you have 2 hours to indulge yourself in nature, snorkel or just settle back at the luxurious Green Island Resort before your return flight to Cairns.more info » |
from $250.00
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Discover the world renowned Green Island the easy way by choosing a range of departue times for a 10 minute flight to this tropical paradise. Here you have 2 hours to indulge yourself in nature, snorkel or just settle back at the luxurious Green Island Resort before your return flight to Cairns.more info » |
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Reef Quest offers fantastic value for money and gives you the oppotunity to do up to 3 dives on the Outer Great Barrier Reef. Snorkellers can enjoy unlimited snorkelling in 2 different locations, weather permitting. Reef Quest offers outstanding value taking you to the Outer Reef in under 90 mins,less time travelling and more time to snorkel and enjoy the reef.more info » |
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SeaQuest transports you to the Outer Great Barrier Reef in just over 90 minutes. As one of only 43 passengers you can be assured of individual attention from our trained crew. SeaQuest ADV caters superbly for both certified and introductory divers. Our dive locations on the outer edge of the Great Barrier Reef offer outstanding underwater visibility, superb coral formations and abundant, colourful marine life including Wally our friendly 1.5 Maori Wrasse at Norman Reef. The Discover Scuba Diving program is your perfect introduction to the reef with pre-dive tuition, close underwater supervision, dive recognition card and certificate included. Explore two reef locations in one day.more info » |
from $109.00
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Frankland Islands Cruise & Dive is the only tour operator licensed to visit the untouched beauty of the Frankland Islands. Our vessel takes up to a maximum of 100 passengers which ensures your day on the reef is both service and safety orientated. Your day begins with a morning cruise along the Mulgrave river. From the mouth of the river our destination on the The Great Barrier Reef is already in sight, making it the shortest open sea crossing in North Queensland. Welcome to Normanby Island, one of the five stunning islands that comprise the Frankland Islands. more info » |
from $174.00
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The beauty of the Great Barrier Reef is yours to experience when you cruise from Cairns to our luxury 3 level pontoon on the Outer Reef. The pontoon features: undercover seating and tables, a sumptuous buffet lunch, a sundeck, full bar facilities, semi-submersible coral viewing tour, swimming enclosure for children, change rooms with fresh water showers, scuba diving facilities with a semi-submerged dive platform. You'll be able to snorkel or dive among the Reef's spectacular coral garden and diverse marine life.more info » |
from $194.00
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The beauty of the Great Barrier Reef is yours to experience when you cruise from Cairns to Green Island for the morning and then onto our luxury 3 level pontoon on the Outer Reef. The pontoon features: undercover seating and tables, a sumptuous buffet lunch, a sundeck, full bar facilities, semi-submersible coral viewing tour, swimming enclosure for children, change rooms with fresh water showers, scuba diving facilities with a semi-submerged dive platform. You'll be able to snorkel or dive among the Reef's spectacular coral garden and diverse marine life.more info » |
from $155.00
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Departing Port Douglas daily, HABA provides the opportunity to actually see for yourself the amazing variety and complexity of hard and soft corals, a kaleidoscope of shapes, colours and structures all teeming with fish in a never ending cycle of life. Take time to venture on the guided snorkelling tour included in your package, or simply see it all for yourself. For the certified divers HABA offers the best of the Outer Barrier Reef. Pristine reef, magnificent coral drop offs and the complete spectrum of marine life is yours for the day. Drift dives and exploration are made easy by our new high speed tender - you are taken to unspoilt locations remote from the activities taking place around the vessel. more info » |
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Ocean Free is a 16m schooner sailing daily to our exclusive mooring on Pinnacle reef just 1km off Green Island. Experience a small personalised tour where only our guests snorkel and dive this private site. Just off the boat view the bommies (coral outcrops) which come to just 1m under the surface, great for snorkelling! View a beautiful coral garden lots of different colours, staghorn, boulder coral and soft corals. Many species of reef fish, sea-cucumbers and giant clams. Turtles and black-tipped reef sharks (totally harmless and very timid!) a common sight.more info » |
from $165.00
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Upolu Cay is a naturally formed coral cay situated 30 kilometres from Cairns on the Great Barrier Reef and is the perfect location with protected, shallow waters from which to explore the reef snorkeling & scuba diving. Ocean Freedom cruises you to Upolu Cay in less than an hour. The first Great Barrier Reef tour to arrive at Upolu Cay, Ocean Freedom offers you over one hour to explore the Cay and surrounding reef uninterrupted.more info » |
from $189.00
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Ocean Spirit Cruises is Cairns premier sailing company, offering guests a completely unique sailing experience to the Great Barrier Reef's most natural and pristine destinations. Ocean Spirit I is a luxury sailing catamaran that sails daily to Michaelmas Cay. A stunning sand island, bird sanctuary and perfect for the nature lover. From the shallows of Michaelmas Cay, snorkel lessons and guided snorkel tours with qualified Marine Biologists are on offer. Our Marine Biologists also offer nature presentations and semi-submersible tours. For the more adventurous try Scuba diving. Another highlight of a day with Ocean Spirit is our 2 fully qualified chefs, onboard everyday preparing some of the regions finest produce for your hot and cold buffet lunch (including seafood). End your day sitting under the flickering sails, a complimentary glass of champagne in hand and the gentle strum of live guitar in the background. What a way to end a perfect day.more info » |
from $110.00
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Ocean Spirit Cruises takes you to natures most unique and stunning destinations on the Great Barrier Reef. We sail daily in style aboard luxury sailing catamarans. This tour gives you two distinctly different experiences to take home with you. Firstly we take you to Oyster Reef a clear flat shallow reef that is covered with brightly colored corals and is teeming with a myriad of fish. The second destination of the day is the very cute little sand island of Upolu Cay. At Upolu Cay you can take a glass bottom boat tour, snorkel in the shallows, dive from our dive tender or simply soak up the sun on the beach. Always a highlight of a day out with Ocean Spirit is our fully qualified chefs, onboard everyday preparing some of the regions freshest produce for your buffet lunch (which includes seafood). You will sail back to Cairns under full sail with a complimentary glass of champagne in hand while being entertained with live music and reflecting back upon your Great Barrier Reef experience.more info » |
from $99.00
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Sail on the luxury sailing catamaran to our first destination of the day Upolo Cay, Upolo Cay is a naturally formed sand island, It is the perfect starting point to gently ease your way into the water. Our Marine naturalist will teach you how to snorkel and take you for a guided snorkel tour of the Great Barrier Reef, After your superb lunch you sail to the second destination Oyster Reef, A shallow pristine reef that is exclusively ours for the afternoon to explore. more info » |
from $119.00
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Passions of Paradise is a fast, modern 25 metre maxi-catamaran which sails daily to Michaelmas Cay and the Great Barrier Reef. We take you to the best locations with the friendliest crew. Michaelmas Cay is an unspoilt paradise recognized internationally as one of the most important bird nesting sanctuaries on the Great Barrier Reef. Host to over 20,000 sea birds, this unique and fragile ecosystem combines brilliant white sand with colourful soft coral, warm shallow water and an abundance of marine life. Perfect for snorkeling, scuba diving, glass bottom boat tours or just relaxing on the beach. Our second destination, weather permitting, is to the Outer Barrier Reef, where we have our own exclusive mooring at Breaking Patches, called Paradise Reef (hence no crowds). Here you will find the beautiful hard coral gardens that the Outer Reef is famous for. Passions of Paradise is an award winning boat, and most recently won the 2005 and 2006 Queensland Tourism Awards. more info » |
from $186.00
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For your experience of a lifetime, Quicksilver's friendly crew will take you to a reef at the very edge of Australia's Continental Shelf, to an underwater world that is a dazzling kaleidoscope of colour and brilliance. Quicksilver takes you to Agincourt Reef, a magnificent ribbon reef where you can experience first hand the magic that is the Great Barrier Reef. With Quicksilver you can choose to dive, snorkel, or stay dry and explore the stunning reef from the comfort of a Quicksilver semi-sub, just one metre underwater. Watch the fish feeding from Quicksilver's unique underwater viewing platform and underwater observatory, or fly in a helicopter over the reef. Whichever way you choose, you'll bring home a lifetime of memories from this living natural wonder. Enjoy a hot and cold tropical buffet lunch, containing fresh prawns, pastas, meats, salads and fruit. There are full bar facilities available where you can purchase drinks.more info » |
from $122.00
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Imagine sailing aboard Wavedancer to the Great Barrier Reef island of your dreams, lying under a palm thatched umbrella, then slipping into the water to drift over coral gardens alive with brilliantly coloured fishes... Low Isles Set like a jewel in a Great Barrier Reef lagoon, Low Isles is an idyllic, unspoilt coral island that appeals to everyone. And why not, when this is everyones idea of a secluded tropical paradise! The wide, sandy beach and clear, calm lagoon waters are ideal for swimming, snorkelling and families. Visitors are limited to protect the reefs ecology, so you will experience this island heaven with a select few. So Relax - the whole of this beautiful, palm fringed island beach is yours to explore and enjoy. more info » |
from $42.00
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Fitzroy Island is located only 45 mintute from Cairns, Australia by fast catamaran and yet it is one of the most unspoilt islands adjacent to the Great Barrier Reef. Fitzroy Island is one of 600 "Continental" or "High" islands on the Great Barrier Reef which means it used to be part of the mainland before rising waters separated this tranquil paradise. Over time a fringing coral reef surrounded the island, providing a sheltered home for a variety of fish and coral species. This area now forms part the Inner Barrier, of the Central Region of the Great Barrier Reef. And so this area can be protected for future generations it is part of the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area, one of the several natural wonders of the World. more info » |
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Located out of Cairns, Reef Magic Cruises offer a full 5 hours to dive and snorkel at Australia's Latest Outer Barrier Reef Platform ""MARINE WORLD"". Cruises suit any person, family or group looking for personalised service and the ultimate Outer Great Barrier Reef diving or snorkeling experience. Reef Magic's vessel is a 22-metre air-conditioned fast and stable catamaran with a fully licensed bar, comfortable seating and spacious outer decks.more info » |
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Departing Port Douglas daily, an ultra modern 29 metre catamaran lets you explore the outer edge reef locations at Agincourt ribbon reef in superb style and comfort. Cruising on the fastest vessel to the reef, you'll enjoy over 5 hours exploring the delights of this underwater world. Silversonic's ride control system ensures your trip is super smooth, even when travelling at speeds of up to 32 knots. Visiting 3 different sites so you can choose 3 certified dives 2 introductory dives or 3 different adventure snorkel locations. Each site offers a new experience, selected for its unique variety of marine life and corals. In between water activities, relax on the expansive sundecks overlooking the Coral Sea. more info » |
from $143.00
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New Silverswift Vessel launched - December 2006... We're ready to whisk you away for a day of adventure, Silverswift is a new luxury 29m catamaran designed with everything you need to experience an underwater world of colourful marine life in safety and comfort. Visit 3 sites at the Outer Barrier Reef and spend a leisurely 5 hours at play. Certified divers can enjoy up to 3 dives, with introductory divers able to do a second dive. Locations vary with the conditions however each site is chosen for visual impact, ecological diversity and the challenge of discovery (Milln, Flynn & Thetford reefs). more info » |
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Discover the real reef as you join Sunlover Reef Cruises luxury day cruise to the outer edge of the Great Barrier Reef by fast, air-conditioned catamaran. Departing daily from the Reef Fleet Terminal in the heart of Cairns, our Cruises offer the highest quality experience in discovering the beauty of the Great Barrier Reef. Introductory and certified scuba diving, the world famous Seawalker(R) Platform Helmet Diving*, guided snorkel tours and deluxe helicopter scenic flights are optional tours available too. Whether you want to get wet or stay dry, there are numerous activities available for you to enjoy. Or simply just relax, sit back and marvel at the serenity. Departs Reef Fleet Terminal, Cairns 10.00 am, Returns Cairns 5.30 pmmore info » |