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Down Under Heli
Escape to Lizard Island
Thursday 15th March 2012 ONLY
$489 per person
Includes:
- Scenic 60minute Reef Flight to Lizard Island
- Gourmet picnic lunch with sparkling wine and all accompaniments
- Snorkelling Equipment Over 5 hours at the exotic jewel of the Great Barrier Reef “Lizard Island”
- Return Scenic 60minute Cape Tribulation Flight
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Get High Up Top & Dive Down Under
Get High up Top & Dive Down Under!
Includes:-
-2 Outer Reef locations
- Intro or Cert Dive
- Guided Snorkel tour
- Glass bottom boat tour
- 10 min scenic heli flight
from $209 p/person
**SAVE $100**
*reef levy of $20/person extra
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Reef Experience
Reef Experience
visits 2 Outer Reef locations with six hours to enjoy snorkelling and diving and relaxing!
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FREE INTRO DIVE, Guided Snorkel Tour, or Cert Dive
-On-board marine naturalist presentation
-FREE Cairns city transfers
-Breakfast
-Wine & Cheese on way home
ONLY $164
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Tusa T6
Tusa 6 holds a roving permit. The skipper chooses the BEST 2 Outer Reef locations.
Dive Special
3 Certified Dives - Full Gear - $225
3 Certified Dives - Tanks & Weights - $195

+ $10 EMC payable on board
NEW BOAT - JUST LAUNCHED!!
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Down Under Heli
FLY/CRUISE COMBO
- Visit 2 reef destinations
- 5 hours at the Reef
- Snorkelling equipment
- Glass bottom boat tour
- BBQ Lunch inc. prawns
-25 min scenic helicopter flight from Cairns over Reef and Sand Cays
ONLY $299pp
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Raging Thunder Ballooning
Your balloon flight is only the beginning of your adventure...
Romantic Hot Air Ballooning!
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Personalised Flight Certificate
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Kuranda in a Day!
Kuranda
TRAIN & SKYRAIL
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Daintree Walkabout
Daintree Walkabout
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-Exotic Fruit Tasting
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Ultimate 3 Day Reef Pass
Cairns & Port Douglas
Ultimate Reef Pass
The award winning Quicksilver and Great Adventures offer the widest range of reef cruises on the Great Barrier Reef.
Choose 3 reef cruises from either Quicksilver or Great Adventures on this pass.
$410/adult
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Departs from Cairns and Port Douglas
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River Tubing
River Tubing Tours
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- Pickup in Northern Beaches approx 7.15am
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- Approx 2 hours of tubing!
$59 + $10 levy = $69 Adults (12 years & older)
$39 + $10 levy = $49 Children (5 to 11 years)
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Reef Encounter - Cairns

Reef Encounter

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Sleep on the Reef including all meals and gear!
  • Includes Meals and Scuba Gear
  • Cabins with Ensuites
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LUXURY LIVEABOARD

The Reef Encounter offers the best value liveaboard dive and snorkel trips from Cairns.

What Makes it Great:

  • Daily departures
  • FREE 10 minute Scuba Diving Lesson
  • All meals included

The Reef Encounter is a 35 metre catamaran designed for the utmost stability and comfort at sea.

Inclusions:

  • Stateroom accommodation
  • Private ensuites
  • Chef prepared meals made fresh daily on board
  • Complimentary Tea, Coffee & fruit
  • Glass bottom boat tour
  • Fresh Linen
  • Snorkel & Dive Equipment
  • Free Scuba Lessons for Snorkellers

    Facilities onboard:
  • 21 twin/double staterooms (all have private bathrooms)
  • Ocean view rooms
  • Air-conditioning
  • Fully Licensed Bar
  • Dining Room
  • Heated Spa
  • Easy access to snorkelling / scuba dive platform
  • Dive Tender vessels
  • Spacious Sun Deck with sun lounges
  • TV / Video Room
  • Heli Pad

    Activities:

    Snorkelling
    - Enjoy the amazing variety of coral and the profusion of marine life.
    Glass Bottom Boat Tours - An 'up close and personal' reef and marine life presentation.
    Free Scuba Diving Lesson - Never tried Scuba? Experienced instructors will give you a free 10 minute lesson.
    Scuba Diving - Introductory or Certified diving.
    Night diving for beginners - see the reef's nocturnal activities.
    Heated Spa - Relax with a sparkling wine and enjoy the sunset.
    Sundeck - Soak up the sunshine on a sunlounge.
    Star Gazing - the ceiling on the reef is the stars - find the Southern Cross.
    Cruising - Relax as Reef Encounter cruises from reef to reef.
    Scenic Flight - Have a sea eagles view of the reef with a heli encounter.
  • The vessel is air-conditioned throughout with spacious decks, large dining and recreation areas. The large water platform allows for easy access into the water.
    Reef Encounter offers comfortable cabins as well as staterooms with double or twin beds, ensuites and large picture windows in the staterooms. All staterooms are located on levels one and two of the Reef Encounter.

    The lounge/dining room contains all dining room facilities, a fully licensed bar and a relaxing lounge area with television and video/DVD facilities. This area is ideal to relax and socialise with the other guests after another perfect day aboard Reef Encounter. Delicious gourmet meals are prepared on board by chefs and served to your table in the dining area.

    The fully equipped dive-deck is situated at the stern end of the vessel while towards the bow is an idyllic heated spa.

    Level One is a fabulous deck and is used primarily to accommodate the Top Deck Club clientele.

    Top Deck Club  is designed to meet the expectations of the most discerning of guests, offering an unhurried, relaxed ambience. Luxurious touches such as crisp Australian bed linen, silk doona, cotton sheets and feather down pillows adorn our oversized double beds. Soft fluffy robes, plush bath sheets and Australian beauty products are replenished daily.
    Inclusions:

  • Valet service
  • Champange on arrival
  • Tropical breakfast served in your room daily
  • Complimentary sunset cocktails
  • Gourmet chef prepared meals with the option of dining under the stars or on the top deck,
  • Chocolates on the turndown
  • Personal guide on all snorkel and dives

    Dive & Snorkel:
    The Reef Encounter caters for divers of all levels of experience with a variety of diving options to choose from, all catered to your specific needs.
  • Certified Divers are well looked after with more reefs, more variety and less divers. All Certified diving includes mask, snorkel & fins, weights, tanks, refills, BC, and regulator.

    Introductory diving is also offered and no experience is necessary. Try a FREE 10 minute Scuba Diving Lesson.

    Snorkellers will experience the fun and exhiliration of snorkelling above and amidst the beautiful array of coral and marine life on this trip. To assist you with your every need, the professional crew can assist you with snorkelling briefs and instruction as well as fully guided tours.

    The large easy access hydraulic platform allows people who are disabled or with limited mobility to easily enter the water and take part in the days activities.

    Outer Reef Locations:
    The Reef Encounter offers overnight or extended dive and snorkel expeditions to the Great Barrier Reef, cruising to spectacular Reef locations.

  • Michaelmas Reef
    Located 40 kms off Cairns, offers shallow coral reefs, and a dazzling array of exotic marine life including Giant Clams over 100 years old.
  • Norman Reef
    The very Outer Reef 70 kms from Cairns, on the Continental Shelf, yielding incredible visibility. Many canyons, swim throughs, and prolific large fish life. A must to see, the best location for 'Night Diving'. 

    Snorkelling at Norman Reef is among the best in the world. Each of our sites at Norman Reef situates you perfectly for shallow observation from the moment you hop off the boat. In the shallow sandy patches of Norman Reef live garden moray eels. It's easy to understand why these beautiful creatures choose to live in the midst of stag horn thickets with rich coral cover.

    Frank is our resident Napolean Maori Wrasse is a very friendly local attention seeker and will happily swim around snorkellers and introduce them to his coral home.

    Diving:

    Scuba divers can explore underwater canyons bursting full of schooling fish such as oriental sweetlips, swim throughs where the light penetrates ideally for silhouette photographs and caves where you’ll discover natures awe inspiring architecture and day dwelling night animals.

    Advanced scuba divers will enjoy depths of up to 30 metres (100 feet).

    There are many sites that we visit along Norman Reef and each has a variety of attractions on offer.  Ski Slopes Mooring – (a shallow ‘horse shoe shaped’ sandy bay walled by coral which slopes gradually down to over 30 meters), Caves Mooring, Fingers Mooring (where walls of reef jut out like the fingers on a human hand, with shallow reef and colourful soft corals at the base and deeper drop offs along the tips), Playground Mooring and the Wild Side Mooring.

    Night Dives:  Much of the best night diving on the reef happens at Norman Reef.  Divers encounter lively lobsters, schools of giant trevally and grey whaler sharks at night.  For those not jumping in the water at night, spectate from the side of the boat and view white tip reef sharks and red bass circling below.

  • Saxon Reef
    Renowned for huge Manta Rays, friendly inquisitive moray eels, great for diving or snorkelling. Hastings Reef
    58 kms off Cairns, lies 10 sq. kms of colourful coral gardens. Famous for Tame Friendly Reef Sharks, finally the Giant Wrasse, and thousands of tropical fish.
  • Breaking Patches
    Forests of staghorn coral, large black coral trees, wall diving and lion fish to photograph.  Breaking Patches is exclusive to Reef Encounter and Reef Experience. A shallow reef only 16 metres maximum depth, Breaking Patches is a sea of hard and soft coral including Staghorn coral, Black Coral Trees and Sea Fans. Sensational diving and snorkelling, Breaking Patches is home to many angelfish, lionfish and parrotfish.

    An exciting fact for Reef Experience guests is that Breaking Patches is a breeding ground for the common green turtle and hawksbill turtles alike.  Sea Christmas tree worms, anemone, clownfish and butterflyfish are spread throughout the plethora of plate and fan coral which make up the majority of the shallowest Breaking Patches areas.  There are swim throughs and over hangs that lead right down to the sandy floor where explorers will find sea cucumbers eating their way around.

  • Transfers:
    The Reef Encounter is permanently moored on the Great Barrier Reef. Transfers and returns to Reef Encounter are conducted daily via Reef Experience. Click here for more info

    For something really special, why not arrive in style with a Heli-Transfer! Helicopter transfers are available from Cairns or Port Douglas, landing directly onboard Reef Encounter's exclusive helipad.

    Extra costs:
  • Drinks from the bar
  • Wet suit hire & night torch
  • Additional or optional dives
  • Underwater camera hire
  • Transfers from your hotel
  • *Reef Tax is not included and must be paid onboard.

  • Please note:
    Some Medical conditions and or medication may stop you from participating in Scuba Diving these include Asthma or wheezing. Brain spinal cord or nervous disorder, chronic bronchitis or persistent chest complaint, chronic sinus, collapsed lung, diabetes mellitis, chest surgery, Epilepsy, Fainting, Seizure or blackouts, Heart Disease of any kind, recurrent ear problems when flying, tuberculosis or other long-term lung disease and High blood pressure.

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    All prices shown in Australian Dollars
    Prices valid from now until 31 March 2012
    Snorkeler Adult Child Family
    Snorkel -2D/1N multishare $280 n/a n/a
    Snorkel -2D/1N Stateroom, Twin Share $359 $359 n/a
    Snorkel -3D/2N multishare $420 n/a n/a
    Snorkel -3D/2N Stateroom, Twin Share $559 $559 n/a
    Certified Diver Adult Child Family
    Cert -2D/1N Multishare $370 n/a n/a
    Cert -2D/1N Stateroom, Twin Share $449 n/a n/a
    Cert -3D/2N Multishare $535 n/a n/a
    Cert -3D/2N Stateroom, Twin Share $699 n/a n/a
    Cert -2D/1N Stateroom, Sole Use $805 n/a n/a
    Cert -3D/2N Stateroom, Sole Use $1,255 n/a n/a
    Cert -4D/3N Stateroom, Sole Use $1,705 n/a n/a
    Introductory Diver Adult Child Family
    Intro -2D/1N Multishare $495 n/a n/a
    Intro -2D/1N Stateroom, Twin Share $589 n/a n/a
    Intro -3D/2N Multishare $740 n/a n/a
    Intro -3D/2N Stateroom, Twin Share $939 n/a n/a
    Courses Adult Child Family
    Open Water -3D/2N Stateroom, Twin Share $915 n/a n/a
    All prices shown in Australian Dollars
    Prices valid from 01 April 2012 until 31 March 2013
    Snorkeler Adult Child Family
    Snorkel -2D/1N Stateroom, Twin Share $380 $380 n/a
    Snorkel -3D/2N Stateroom, Twin Share $580 $580 n/a
    Certified Diver Adult Child Family
    Cert -2D/1N Stateroom, Twin Share $470 n/a n/a
    Cert -3D/2N Stateroom, Twin Share $720 n/a n/a
    Cert -2D/1N Stateroom, Sole Use $850 n/a n/a
    Cert -3D/2N Stateroom, Sole Use $1,300 n/a n/a
    Cert -4D/3N Stateroom, Sole Use $1,750 n/a n/a
    Introductory Diver Adult Child Family
    Intro -2D/1N Stateroom, Twin Share $610 n/a n/a
    Intro -3D/2N Stateroom, Twin Share $960 n/a n/a
    Courses Adult Child Family
    Open Water -3D/2N Stateroom, Twin Share $936 n/a n/a
    EXTRAS
    Prices valid from now until 31 March 2013
    EMC, reef levies per day $15.00
    OPTIONAL EXTRAS
    Prices valid from now until 31 March 2012
    Wetsuit Hire, per day $5.00
    Dive Torch hire $5.00
    Prices valid from 01 April 2012 until 31 March 2013
    Extra Nights Intro. Diver Stateroom (Twin) $350.00
    Extra Nights Snorkeler Stateroom (Twin) $200.00
    Extra Nights Cert. Diver Stateroom (Sole) $450.00
    Extra Nights Cert. Diver Stateroom (Twin) $250.00
    Intro Night Dive $80.00
    TERMS
    Child Age = 4-14 years
    Family = 2 Adults & 2 Children
    CURRENCY CONVERTER
    WE DO NOT CHARGE BOOKING FEES OR CREDIT CARD SURCHARGES

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