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Great Barrier Reef
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3 Night Great Barrier Reef Cruise

Highlights
• Exclusive Pelorus tropical island
• Coates & Nathan reefs
• Spectacular Hinchinbrook Channel
• Dunk Island rainforest trails
• Marine naturalist & dive master

Experience tropical islands where the rainforest canopy towers overhead, visit reefs where multitudes of coloured fish decorate rich coral gardens and cruise where dolphins play and dugongs glide in the unique Hinchinbrook Channel.
 
Departure wharf

Departs

Returns

Cairns Trinity Wharf
Boarding 30 minutes prior to departure

11.00am Saturday *

10.00am Tuesday
Townsville
Townsville Breakwater Terminal,
Sir Leslie Thiess Drive
Boarding 30 minutes prior to departure

1.00pm Tuesday*

1.30pm Friday
Cairns
* Cruises operate alternate weeks March – October 2008. 
 
 
Sample Itinerary
Day 1: 12:30pm: Board your small ship cruise at Breakwater Terminal for a 1:00pm departure.  Departing Townsville, we cross Halifax Bay, passing close to Magnetic Island before cruising amongst the spectacular Palm Group of Islands. In the evening, join our crew and travelling companions on the top deck as the sun spectacularly sets over the reef.
Day 2: This morning we awaken moored beside your very own tropical island, Pelorus. Enjoy our beach BBQ, freshly prepared by the Captain. After breakfast, explore the surrounding rainforest on a guided nature walk or enjoy a guided snorkelling tour, glass bottom boat excursion or SCUBA dive. Cruising northward, discover the towering island cliffs and mangroves of the Hinchinbrook Channel and the Family Group of Islands. This afternoon we visit Dunk Island Resort where there is time to relax by the resort’s pool, or join a guided rainforest walk.

Day 3: Enjoy a full day to discover Nathan Reef. Snorkelling, glass bottom boat rides or SCUBA diving all await you.
 
Day 4: Anchoring off Thetford Reef and Sudbury Cay we enjoy our final opportunity to snorkel over the reef. Join our Marine Biologist for a glass bottom boat tour over the colourful coral gardens before gathering on the snorkel deck to participate in a fish feed. Discover some of the 1500 species of tropical fish that call the reef home, including Spangled Emperor, Giant Trevally and the Hump-Headed Maori Wrasse as they are hand fed by the Marine Biologist. Early this afternoon we cruise through Trinity Bay before arriving in tropical Cairns at 1:30pm for disembarkation at Trinity Wharf.
Also operates in reverse direction, Cairns to Townsville. Itineraries subject to change due to weather and other operational requirements
 
 
 
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