Dive Review of
Lady Elliot Island Divers/Lady Elliot Island in
Australia/Southern GBR

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Dive Conditions

Divers were grouped according to experience. Divers chose the sites.
Divemasters didn't hover. Few divers and we generally tooled around after
the divemaster who knew where the best things about each site were.  

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Overall Rating

Our family of four including boys 8 and 10 spent a week on Lady Elliot
Island, the southernmost island on the Great Barrier Reef. During this
trip, we experienced the best snorkeling of our lives, easily accessible
from shore and perfect with our children. We only did a few dives since the
snorkeling was so superb and our kids could enjoy it with us. During both
dives and snorkels, we encountered huge schools and swirling fish tornados
of various barracuda and jack, white tip, black tip, and bronze whaler
sharks, huge bull rays, leopard rays, and shovel-nosed rays, eels, and more
turtles than we could count. The corals were spectacular;intact, colorful,
and teeming with life. While diving and snorkeling were the highlights for
us, the resort offered much more in the way of fun and education. Guided
educational activities included star-gazing, historical walks,
fish-feeding, reef-walking, flora and fauna, and more. Wayne Fox, the
general manager of the resort presented entertaining and informative slide
shows about the local sharks and turtles. David Ireland, the "original
Crocodile Man" was there filming a documentary on manta rays, so he
gave a lively presentation one night and entertained informally other
evenings (think "coconut bowling" and "reef bingo.")
The reef education center, mini-golf, ping pong, and extensive library of
films, book, and puzzles, provided us with hours of fun above water.
 There are numerous flights daily from the mainland, part of the package,
and a treat in itself for the beauty of the scenery and the novelty of
landing on a short, grassy strip. We found the food to be plentiful and
satisfying, especially the seafood buffet. Accomodations were simple, clean
and adequate, located right above the water line, overlooking the lagoon.
The staff, who live on the island, were hard-working, knowledgable,
personable, and alot of fun to be with. My older son got his
"Bubble-Blowers" certificate in the pool with the kind and
patient dive manager, Adam,and can't wait to return on his twelvth birthday
to become certified (the perfect venue.) We highly recommend this resort to
families or divers with snorkeling- only spouses. A side trip to Frazer
Island (the largest sand island in the world and a World Heritage- listed
site),can be easily arranged out of Hervey Bay, also a gateway to Lady
Elliot. 

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