Great Barrier Reef - scuba diving and hiring yachts
By Alan
The Great Barrier Reef is immensity lost the edge of the Earth, in
the giant reef nature has created one of the most beautiful wonders of
the world, and the Great Barrier Reef is 2,300 km of water playground to
be explored and most enjoyably sailed and dived into.
The Great Barrier Reef, the largest coral reef in the world, the GBR
(Great Barrier Reef), has 400 species of corals, 1,500 varieties of fish
and 4000 shellfish types so there is no shortage of things to see.
Inscribed in 1981 onto the World Heritage List, it is also home to rare
animals such as the gentle dugong that sailors once confused with
sirens.
The location is ideal, clear and warm water where fish have all the
colours of the rainbow and the bottom is sandy, the transparency of the
Pacific Ocean is stunning. Instructors who teach on the Great Barrier
Reef are extremely careful and professional in the way they deal with
people unfamiliar with diving or the local waters.
Everything is organized so that the customer is king, it is safe to put
trust with a lot of comfort in the hands of local dive masters, the
training is tailored to the superb weather and safe learning environment
and of coral protection takes priority.
The coral reef is quite remote from the mainland and three options
available to you. Go by boat early in the morning from major cities:
Port Douglas, Cairns, Townsville, and enjoy the whole day on the reef.
Staying on an island that allows you to dive at your own pace or even
live on a boat where you can cruise and dive 4 times per day to view
tuna, barracuda, sharks and turtles. The operators all have licenses to
operate a very precise location of the GBR.
To the north of Cairns, on Reef No.10, a spot that has become famous is
Cod Hole, where big gray spotted grouper come to embrace the regulators
divers. Farther south, the group of islands known as the Whitsundays
offer a lazy respite, each island is full of parrot fish with their
tinted blue robes of green, pink or yellow.
If you are not into diving the Whitsundays are one of the most popular
stopping of points for the areas other great attraction hiring a yacht
to sail the GBR. There are many types of vessels available from yacht
Hire Company’s spread along the mainland and islands.
You can enjoy the luxury of a sailing catamaran, a yacht or a flybridge
cruiser plus many other kinds of vessels. If you don’t have you see legs
you can also hire the captain and crew to sail you around the stunning
mainland, ref and islands.
You can just kick back and enjoy the sights and total beauty of this
stunning chain of coral, land and islands, there are also many tiny
islets to let you deal with your Robinson Crusoe fantasies.
Yacht hire is an idyllic way to explore everything that the GBR has to
offer the visitor. |
