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Coral Lagoon on the Southern Great Barrier reef, visited by day cruise from the Town of 1770, on the 'Reef Jet', with 1770 Holidays. Situated 32 nautical miles from Town of 1770 is the spectacular 2000 acre Lagoon of Fitzroy Reef. The only natural formed, all tidal entrance Lagoon on the Southern Great Barrier Reef, boasts the most diverse range of colourful and uniquely shaped corals.

Marine life that call Fitzroy Reef Lagoon home include 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, Dolphins, Turtles and up to 1000 different species of small colourful fish. Guests can see nearly one million individual fish while snorkelling the bombies of Fitzroy! Sharks majestically cruise through the Lagoon - totally uninterested in people - harmless.

Fitzroy Reef
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Things to do: Reef Jet Crew feed fish off the back of the Jet such as painted sweetlip, fusaleers, trevally, coral cod, red emperor, coral trout and the smaller sergeant majors. No Crown of Thorns starfish, no coral bleaching, no walking on the reef, no tourism impacts. Snorkelling depths are from three to seven metres to the sea floor and up to 15 metres to the reef. Diving depths - outside of the lagoon diving up to 20 metres, inside the lagoon up to 10 metres.