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Snorkelling and Glass Bottom Boat at Green Island from Cairns

Duration: 5 to 9 hours
Destination: Australia, Queensland, Cairns & the Tropical North
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  • 5 to 9 hours
  • Cairns & the Tropical North
  • E-Voucher
  • Lowest Price
  • Not-Cancellable

Overview

Green Island offers the unique opportunity for a combined reef and rainforest experience, just 45 minutes from Cairns by fast catamaran. Home to over 120 native plant species and colourful bird life, surrounded by abundant marine life. Full and half day options available. Your day can be as active or as relaxing as you choose.

As a Great Adventures guest, you’ll also be able to enjoy many exclusive inclusions such as the use of the island swimming pool and a self guided eco island walk to discover some of the island’s unique rainforest flora. The island’s well appointed day visitor facilities include a pool bar, plus restaurant and retail outlets. A delicious range of lunch and snacks can be purchased from the island’s food and refreshment outlets.

What Can You Expect?

Itinerary
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Stop At: Green Island, Green Island, Queensland

Green Island is a beautiful 6000 year old coral cay. It's the only coral cay on the Great Barrier Reef with a rainforest! Snorkel from the white sandy beaches, see the island's reef from the glass bottom boat and walk through the lush rainforest.

Duration: 7 hours

Stop At: Green Island, Cairns, Queensland 4870 Australia

Explore Green Island

Duration: 5 hours

Inclusions & Exclusions

Inclusions
  • Use of Snorkelling equipment
  • Glass bottom boat tour
  • Return fast catamaran transfers from Cairns
  • Self guided island walk
  • Morning tea/coffee served onboard until departure from Cairns
  • Use of island day visitor facilities
  • Use of island swimming pool, exclusive to Great Adventures
  • Free beach bag

Exclusions
  • Hotel pick up and drop off

Additional Info

  • Wheelchair accessible
  • Stroller accessible
  • Service animals allowed
  • Infant seats available
  • Most travelers can participate
  • Snorkelling can be a strenuous activity. We recommend informing crew of any medical conditions.
  • This tour/activity will have a maximum of 300 travelers
  • Confirmation will be received at time of booking

Departure Point

Departure Point

1 Spence St, Cairns City QLD 4870, Australia


Return Details

Returns to original departure point

Duration & Voucher Info

Voucher info

You can present either a paper or an electronic voucher for this activity.

Duration

5 to 9 hours

Cancellation Policy

User's Reviews

Elizabeth_A

22 Apr, 2024

This was a great tour. Staff friendly. Glass bottom boat was good. Saw lots of fish the guide was very knowledgeable. The island is basic but there was everything we needed. Snorkelling was fun and easy to do with my 6 year old.

Gary_P

20 Apr, 2024

Easy to collect boarding tickets at terminal and smooth trip out to Green Island. Staff friendly & helpful on board (sea sickness bag and/or tablet offered to passengers who needed them). I collected my snorkel, flippers & mask at the dive centre on arrival and paid $12 to hire a ‘stinger suit’ as advised by GA staff due to it being stinger season. Lovely sandy beaches so snorkel from and loads of different brightly-coloured fish to sea near to shore above the sea grass and sea coral. It was easy and so much fun! I didn’t see turtles whilst snorkelling but saw them form the jelly as well as 2 types of shark (reef & brown black-tipped fin sharks). The glass-bottomed boat trip lasted about 40mins and the captain gave a commentary about the reef and the fish & coral that we saw. He made the trip so interesting and we learned a lot about the reef. Food was thrown onto the water during the trip to attract more fish for us to see. It was a great way to see the reef for those who didn’t want to snorkel and for those who did. There’s a short boardwalk that you can do to explore the island or just sit on the beach or have lunch in the food court area. We thoroughly enjoyed the trip and thought it was good value for money.

Skye_F

18 Apr, 2024

It was pouring with rain, I wasn’t allowed to cancel our booking. My 10 year old daughter threw up on the way over to the island and couldn’t face getting back on the boat to do glass bottom boat and then the earlier ferry at 2:30pm got canceled because “not enough people”, and we had to wait till 4:30pm to go home, even though we were told we might be able to come back early when we checked in. Did snorkeling and the viability was terrible and had to pay for wet suit.

Kathy_J

16 Apr, 2024

Lush green island with many birds. Some corals & fish viewable from the glass bottomed boat, though water a bit green on our day. Snorkeling through shallow sea grass beds with quite a few fish. Harder to find the corals. Long ways from the beach.

898louiseh

15 Apr, 2024

Fantastic crew who were very attentive and caring. Excellent information about what to expect and how to maximize our experience. We were picked up by Mike C from Palm Cove and back. He went above and beyond to make our journey comfortable and enjoyable. He gave us lots of tips not only about Green Island bit many other places experiences in the area. His sense of humour and fun was fabulous. Highly recommended.

User's Picture Gallery

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Great way to see the barrier reef up close.

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Beautiful day on the water and Green Island

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Good but could be improved

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Beautiful Green Island

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Disappointed

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An incredible day we will never forget

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Must do in CAIRNS!

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Nice day out.

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A very worthwhile experience!

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Expensive day for not much return

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Magical

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A memorable day out!

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great day

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Boring day out

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Abundant marine wildlife

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Wouldn't recommend for locals

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GBB was good

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Would do all over again

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Glass Bottom Boat was the best.

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Great Place to See Green Sea Turtles!

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Great family Vaca day

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Great day out

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Magical Moments

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Snorkelling Fun for beginners

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