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Stretching south to the waters of the Great Barrier Reef offer so many experiences almost a lifetime could be spent exploring it. From mid-August to mid-October you can see Humpback whales frolicking in the warm waters off the coast. Giant sea turtles come ashore regularly to lay their eggs in the sand dunes during the nesting season from mid-November until the end of February.

Fitzroy Reef Lagoon - Many species of marine life call the Fitzroy Reef Lagoon home; including Manta rays, Bullrays, Eagle Rays, the Lagoon ray with its iridescent blue spots and also the black blotched stingray - one of the largest world with a diameter up to two metres. There a pods of dolphins (Bottlenose, common and spinner), Turtles (Loggerhead, Green and Hawksbill) and up to 1000 species of colourful fish. Guests can see nearly one million individual fish while at Fitzroy, reef sharks (white and black tip reef sharks) majestically cruise through the Lagoon - totally uninterested in people - harmless!

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Swain Reefs - Located at the Southern end of the Great Barrier Reef, about 200 kilometres offshore, this immense maze of coral gardens and lagoons provides some of the most impressive dive sites you could ever hope to visit. Most of the area is unexplored, offering you a world of towers, terraces, swim-through, and spirals of coral, with a host of marine life including sea snakes, sharks, Manta rays and schools of migrating fish. Evans Rock - Evans Rock is a small, yet spectacular reef, which shelters a vast array of marine life including large Gropers and moray eels and provides a great venue for diving and snorkelling.
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Hoffman rocks & Barolin rocks provide an excellent venue for shore dives. WWII Wreck - Explore a World War II Bomber, which came down in 1943 in 27 meters of water and seven nautical miles from Bargara. Explore the wreck and enjoy the abundance of sea creatures that inhabit it.

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