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Are you a keen lover of the ocean and adventure activities? This article is for you! Fitzroy Island, a stunning tropical island located 25km off the coast of Cairns in Tropical Far North Queensland, is home to a wide array of amazing water activities. With its incredible location right in the heart of the Great Barrier Reef, warm tropical ocean waters, balmy weather all year round and activities galore, Fitzroy Island truly is an adventure lover’s paradise. Let’s take a look together now at five outstanding water activities you can enjoy during a visit to or stay on Fitzroy Island.

Kayaking is a fabulous activity for so many reasons, as it is an excellent form of incidental exercise and enables you to visit and explore numerous stunning places that cannot be easily reached by other means. As a result, kayaking continues to grow in popularity in locations all around the country. Tropical Far North Queensland (TFNQ) and the Cairns area itself are brimming with outstanding locations to go kayaking. Regardless of whether you prefer freshwater kayaking or sea kayaking, you are spoilt for choice in TFNQ. In this article, we shall introduce you to three outstanding kayaking locations in the

It’s no secret that Australia is home to some of the most spectacular beaches in all the world. With over 10,000 beaches dotted around its enormous coastline, the odds are in its favour! Australia is famous for its relaxed and laidback lifestyle, and it’s no wonder why with a whopping 85% of its population living near to its coastline, with people of all ages enjoying swimming, surfing, stand-up paddle boarding, walking and other beach activities on a regular basis. Australia’s beaches come in all shapes and sizes, such as its famous surf beaches (like those found on the Gold Coast)

Home to more than 600 different species of fascinating hard and soft corals and 2,900 individual coral reefs, it’s not hard to believe that more than two million visitors from all over Australia and around the world travel to Queensland to explore the breathtaking Great Barrier Reef. If you are planning a visit to the Great Barrier Reef, you are likely wondering the best ways to explore this enormous natural structure (the largest found anywhere on planet Earth!). In this article, we shall introduce you to seven different ways you can explore the Reef, no matter how adventurous you are

The sunny state of Queensland on the east coast of Australia is home to one of the world’s most magnificent coral reefs, the renowned Great Barrier Reef. Where better to get up close and admire sea turtles in their natural environment than amongst the Great Barrier Reef? Did you know that the Great Barrier Reef is more than 2,300 kilometres long? This captivating natural structure starts near Bundaberg in the south and runs all the way up to the Cape York Peninsula, Australia’s most northern point. The Great Barrier Reef is in fact comprised of a large number of individual