Green Island Reef Cruise - Full Day tour recommendation
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The Island is really small but it has an ample amount of shade (it gets very hot out there!) it actually has sand,...yes white soft sand (bit of a treat after Cairns mainland  there's shops on the island and parasailing/dive adventures.
The marinelife is diverse and very accessible. It was great not having to dive off a boat into the deep, DEEP blue with the thought of Jaws re-runs playing on your mind. The fish are as close as 5 metres from the shore and as far as 100+ metres off it...so you get to choose the swimming comfort / scaredy cat level that suits you. We used the jetty as a compass and let it guide our snorkel path - there's so many fish clinging around the pile ons and lingering around the boats. Highlights include: White tip reef sharks...snorkelling with a more 'meatier' person helps calm anxiety when face to face with these bad boys. Turtles...great to swim after, gets the heart pumping, and legs cramping ;( Giant clams...we saw these through the glass bottom boat. Lion Fish and big Crayfish...usually hidding in crevices, dive deep. and, of course, finding Nemo...he's out there too. The cruise we went on had a Semi Sub tour and a Glass Bottom Boat tour, we did the Glass Bottom boat it was pretty interactive with a fish feed and it was great having a birds eye view of the marine life. Just abandon thoughts of bright colourful coral like in Finding Nemo and focus on the colours of the fish instead...esp Parrot Fish. The tour had two options a half day and a full day, even though the island is small we wouldv'e cut ourselves short of a good time if we stayed half a day. You know the tours good if locals go on it, and they do. TIPS...this is a single friendly tour, the crew are great and will make you feel welcomed. Whales can be spotted in September, its a bit of a treat being invited into their world as they come to the surface to breach. The calmest season at 5-15knots is around late September to October and the water is magic at this time, great vis if your thinking of going diving. When the wind picks up, pick up your stuff and head to the other side of the Island to the wind free zone. ENJOY!!
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Written: 16 Nov 2007
Approx travel date: 10 Nov 2007
Operator: Big Cat Cruises
Tour Name: Green Island Reef Cruise - Full Day
Written: 16 Nov 2007
Approx travel date: 10 Nov 2007
Operator: Big Cat Cruises
Tour Name: Green Island Reef Cruise - Full Day
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