Diving in Oz

Hi All,

A group of us (6) are having a family holiday in Oz in Aug / Sep & plan
to do a few days diving somewhere between Brisbane & Port Douglas.

I'd appreciate any recommendations of where is best to dive. I have
heard that Fraser Island is better that the G B Reef. Any comments?

Thanks,

Nick
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On Mon, 02 Feb 2004 20:36:02 +0000, Nick King wrote:

> I'd appreciate any recommendations of where is best to dive. I have
> heard that Fraser Island is better that the G B Reef. Any comments?

There's no diving off Fraser Island itself. There is some diving out of
Hervey Bay on Curtin artifical reef. I doubt it's as good as the GBR
though.

Byron Bay is nice as is North Stradbroke, though I don't think mantas are
there in August. I've got some trip reports about that part of the coast
on my website.

Jason

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In article <pan.2004.02.02.21.38.09.765963@ntlworld.com>,
jason.usenet.nospam@ntlworld.com (Jason) wrote:

> Byron Bay is nice

Yes it is, look for Sun Dive website, so is South West Rocks and
Noosa Heads.

The Barrier Reef is more beautiful when flying low over it than actually
diving it, in my experience anyway, the Coral Sea (further out) is much
better diving.

Dave Morgan @ Work :^)

Did a few dives out of Cairns. What you won't get diving on the GB
Reef out of Cairns is seclusion, but there is a lot of choice of
operators, and the parts of platform reef we were taken to hadn't
suffered much from diving like some reefs you see.

Nick King <nick@king-rep.demon.co.uk> wrote in message news:<s8BNfUAySrHAFw0p@king-rep.demon.co.uk>...
> Hi All,
>
> A group of us (6) are having a family holiday in Oz in Aug / Sep & plan
> to do a few days diving somewhere between Brisbane & Port Douglas.
>
> I'd appreciate any recommendations of where is best to dive. I have
> heard that Fraser Island is better that the G B Reef. Any comments?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Nick

My wife and I had a great week staying and diving at the eco resort / island
'Lady Elliot Island'.
The only way to get there is to fly from Bundaberg or Hervey Bay (in a Twin
Otter or similar). Accomodation varies from permanent 'hard' tents to
chalets.
The island is basically a bird colony with the 'resort' in one corner and is
surround by a good reef / lagoon.

We dived 13 times during our stay there and saw good hard and soft corals,
mantas, sharks, turtles plus a good variety of fish including large potato
cod.

All diving is escorted from a hardboat and maximum depth is 28-30 metres.

All in all, you have to factor in the flight to the island and the cost of
your stay against travelling further up the coast towards Cairns and the
fact that to reach the GBR from Cairns etc is a fair boat ride.

Alternatively, there are a few operators in and around Bundaberg and Hervey
Bay that do day charters.

see here http://www.ladyelliotisland.com.au/

On Tue, 03 Feb 2004 22:37:52 +0000, Steve Brown wrote:

> Alternatively, there are a few operators in and around Bundaberg and Hervey
> Bay that do day charters.

And www.saltys.net do 3 day liveaboards out of Bundaberg. Not been with
them yet.

Jason

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Aus.Sport.Scuba


always pays to ask a local.

Thanks, not sure my ISP carries that newsgroup though. Do they have a
web interface by any chance?

On Sun, 8 Feb 2004 14:49:13 +1300, "rnf2" <rnf2@NOSPAMwaikato.ac.nz>
wrote:

>Aus.Sport.Scuba
>
>
>always pays to ask a local.
>

On Tue, 10 Feb 2004 13:45:22 +0000, Nutter <Nutter@MyHouse.com> wrote:


>On Sun, 8 Feb 2004 14:49:13 +1300, "rnf2" <rnf2@NOSPAMwaikato.ac.nz>
>wrote:
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>>Aus.Sport.Scuba
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>
>Thanks, not sure my ISP carries that newsgroup though. Do they have a
>web interface by any chance?
>

http://groups.google.co.uk/groups?q=...oe=UTF-8&hl=en

Pete
diving 'at' melbourne 'dot' me 'dot' uk

On Tue, 10 Feb 2004 13:45:22 +0000, Nutter wrote:

> Thanks, not sure my ISP carries that newsgroup though. Do they have a
> web interface by any chance?

aus.sport.scuba is very quiet. There was a long running flame war so most
people decamped to www.diveoz.com.au web forums.

Jason

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