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Green Island Experience from Cairns: Snorkelling or Glass Bottom Boat Tour
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157 Ratings
Cairns City
Experience the beauty of Green Island with a choice of snorkelling or a glass bottom boat tour. Limited time? Choose a half or full day option and enjoy exclusive inclusions!
Duration:
12 hours
Cancellation:
1 day
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Highlights
- Green Island - Green Island is a beautiful 6000 year old coral cay. It’s the only coral cay on the Great Barrier Reef with a rainforest! You will have a choice of snorkel equipment to snorkel from the white sandy beaches or to stay dry and see the island’s reef from the glass bottom boat. Enjoy a walk through the lush rainforest.
- Great Barrier Reef - Explore the Great Barrier Reef snorkeling or hop on board a Glass Bottom Boat Tour
What's Included
- Exclusive use of island swimming pool
- Choice of snorkelling gear or glass bottom boat tour
- Self-guided island walk
- Return fast catamaran transfers from Cairns
- Access to island day visitor facilities
- Morning tea/coffee served onboard before departure
What's Not Included
- Hotel pickup and drop off
- Optional activities
Additional Information
With an assortment of three trip schedules from Cairns each day, this Green Island excursion caters excellently to tourists on a tight schedule by providing a half or full day (up to 7 hours) adventure. Visitors have the opportunity to choose between a coral-viewing journey through a glass-bottomed boat or snorkelling gear.
As a privileged guest of Great Adventures, you will have access to several unique benefits such as using the island’s swimming pool and a self-guided environmental walk to explore the diverse plant species of the island’s rainforest. The island has well-equipped facilities for day tourists including a pool bar, restaurant, and shops. Tasty food options and refreshments are available for purchase from the island’s outlets. The excursion holds Advanced Ecotourism Certification.
- Snorkelling can be a strenuous activity. We recommend informing crew of any medical conditions
Location
1 Spence St
Spence Street
Important: Please check-in & collect your boarding pass at the Great Adventures Counter inside the Reef Fleet Terminal 45 minutes prior to departure.
Cancellation Policy
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
Customer Ratings
4.0
(157 Ratings)
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Christopher_w
Aug 8, 2024
View reef habitat without getting wet - The glass bottom boat experience was very interesting. For a low tech experience the information provided by the operator was presented very well. To see the many varieties of fish and coral was marvelous. We thoroughly enjoyed it.
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Doma_t
Jul 29, 2024
Worth it!! - My first time seeing the world wonder was so exciting. I loved the commentary and fish feeding which helped us to see those fish so close. Shame that reef was bleached and v colourless, i hope it will come back to its colourful glory soon.
Glass bottom was awesome for people with kids and adults who are sacred to swim or can't be in closed space like wearing water helmet.
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Lina_o
Jul 28, 2024
Nice tour close to... - Nice tour close to Cairns. Good for a daytrip to get to the beach and some snorlkelling. Not the best snorkeling, maybe just unlucky, we visited in July.
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Kate_d
Jul 13, 2024
Amazing snorkelling, quick ferry, awesome day - Amazing snorkelling once we cleared the sea grass and it got a bit deeper. Saw a big turtle, 2m nurse shark (harmless!) and wrays. Yes the food is expensive and the place smells due to the bird poo, but we came for snorkelling and it was awesome. Staff were helpful, no queuing for snorkelling stuff which was good quality.
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Georgie1706
Jun 27, 2024
Great Barrier Reef Adventure and Green Island Combo - This review is for the Great Barrier Reef Adventure and Green Island Combo.
Early start with departure from the Cairns Reef Fleet Terminal with a 7.30am checkin. Coffee and tea is provided prior to departure to Green Island.
We had two hours on Green Island to wonder around, and swim - there are a couple of shops/cafes but not much else. We then departed for the Outer Barrier Reef platform and enjoyed 3 hours here, with hot and cold buffet included, semi-submarine ride, underwater observatory and time to snorkel.
We headed back to Cairns via Green Island to collect more passengers, returning approx 5.30pm.
Very enjoyable day, learning about the Great Barrier Reef and seeing the amazing amount of marine life.
Highly recommend.
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Llew_s
Jun 25, 2024
Well worth the visit - A fantastic tour of green island, crocodile feeding time a must see experience. Glass bottom boat trip was a must, an excellent informative guide on boat trip. Nice friendly and informative crew on shuttle journeys between mainland cairns and green island. A well worth and must do experience.
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Julie_m
Jun 15, 2024
The snorkelling was great... - The snorkelling was great and we got close to so many amazing fish and turtles - although we had to go pretty far out to see them. Unfortunately the coral was not great but I would still highly recommend. You can hire a life vest if conditions are choppy as you do not have guides that go in to the water with you. Food options are not great and quite pricey so it is best to bring your own. Also the 'morning tea' on the boat is just tea and coffee so make sure to eat beforehand.
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Katie_h
Aug 6, 2024
Well organised crew- but Green Is was underwhelming - Take your seasick tablets! Unfortunately we had a rough ride out, but the snorkeling was lovely. Lots of fish, some beach volleyball and swimming. We had a windy day, but was still enjoyable. I wouldn’t stay on Green Is longer than the 2 hours, esp with small children. Lunch cafe was just ok- but I didn’t expect too much.
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Mah_a
Jul 3, 2024
Memorable experience - Beautiful place, nice tour guide and on time programs
Recommend that to anyone comes to Cairns City, QLD
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Susannaisted51
Jul 5, 2024
Not recommended - Snorkeling not good. If you booked snorkeling with Viator then they had the better spot to swim and snorkel which you couldn’t access unless you paid for it. Renting an umbrella and chair was $45.00 just a rip off when you are told there are plenty of seating and shade. Trying to get a meal was also challenging unless you were from the cruise ships. Not nearly enough seating and shade. After swimming in murky waters I wanted a shower and get changed but even though the signs said ‘shower’ there really were none so I had to get changed in the toilet which had water over the floor. I wouldn’t recommend it
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