CAIRNS
Day 1
Arrive Cairns airport and locate your transfer driver for your transfer to your accommodation for the next 13 nights
Day 2
Continental breakfast this morning before enjoying a 1.5 hour Cairns Urban Walking Tour
Cairns may be a pretty face, but its history is also rich and deep, going back 40,000 years. Explore beyond the rainforest and reef to the ancient and recent history, complete with stories and photographable architecture, art, and landmarks. Learn about the traditional owners, explorers, and settlers.
This afternoon, after lunch, partake in a Classroom Based Marine Biology Lecture covering History of the Reef, Reef Management, and a lesson on how to Survey. Marine Discoveries will also cover how the reef is surveyed and monitored, the effect of climate change on the reef and the various ecosystems that make up the reef before returning back to your accommodation for dinner
Day 3
Continental breakfast this morning before a private coach transfer to Cairns Reef Fleet Terminal. Enjoy a Green Island tour (Opportunity to snorkel and collect data, as well as coral monitoring activities utilising the Eye on the Reef Survey Method/ Glass bottom boat tour to give an overview of difference in reef habitats/ Opportunity to participate in citizen survey science projects/ Experienced marine biologist guide/ Morning tea, Lunch, and afternoon tea) before returning back to your accommodation for dinner
Day 4
Continental breakfast this morning before a Full Day (12 Hrs) Cape Tribulation Touring before returning back to your accommodation for dinner
Day 5
Continental breakfast this morning before meeting your coach driver and setting off for a full day tour that includes Rainforestation Nature Park - Pamagirri Aboriginal Experience w/ Lunch (Includes Dance Performance & Dreamtime Walk) Kuranda Koala Gardens - Friends in The Rainforest Group Entry Admission before returning back to your accommodation for dinner
Day 6
Continental breakfast this morning before meeting your coach driver and setting off for a full day tour that includes Hartley’s Crocodile Adventures before returning back to your accommodation for dinner.
Day 7
Continental breakfast this morning before meeting your coach driver and setting off for a ½ day tour that includes Mandingalbay Authentic Indigenous Tours before returning back to your accommodation for a free afternoon.
Day 8
Day at leisure
Day 9
Continental breakfast this morning before meeting your coach driver and setting off for a full day tour that includes Evolution Great Barrier Reef Cruise before returning back to your accommodation for dinner.
Day 10
Continental breakfast this morning before meeting your coach driver and setting off for a full day tour that includes Fitzroy Island Adventures before returning back to your accommodation for dinner.
Day 11
Continental breakfast this morning before meeting your coach driver and setting off for a full day tour that includes Cairns Aquarium - Guided Tour + Turtle Hospital + Coral Bio-Bank before returning back to your accommodation for dinner
Day 12
Continental breakfast this morning before meeting your coach driver and setting off for a full day tour that includes Outer Barrier Reef Tour before returning back to your accommodation for dinner.
Day 13
Continental breakfast this morning before enjoying a day at leisure. This evening, we enjoy Deadly after dark (Sunset Cruise) farewell dinner- including return transfers.
Day 14
Continental breakfast this morning before transferring by coach to the airport in readiness for your flight home.