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Things to do on Whitehaven Beach- whitehaven Beach Australia

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Things to do on Whitehaven Beach

Located in the heart of the Great Barrier Reef, Whitehaven Beach is one of the world’s most unspoiled and beautiful beaches. In 2013, it was named the ‘number one beach in Australia’ by the TripAdvisor Travelers’ Choice Beaches Awards.

Things you will love at Whitehaven Beach

It’s an easy trip from Hamilton Island

Whitehaven Beach is just a thirty-minute trip on a high-speed catamaran, and Hamilton Island offers several Whitehaven Beach day trips and Whitehaven Beach tours. You can explore the beach via a helicopter or seaplane from the island, and can also sail to Whitehaven Beach on one of the island’s yachts.

The impossibly white sand

Whitsunday Island’s famous beach stretches for seven kilometers and is washed by swirls of turquoise, blue and green water. The sand is 98 per cent pure white silica, which gives it a brilliant, near luminescent color.

The pure, pristine environment

Whitehaven Beach is protected by the Whitsunday Islands National Park, and in the heart of the Great Barrier Reef. It’s been voted the world’s top eco-friendly beach, and Queensland’s cleanest beach.

Explore’s Half Day Hill Inlet at Whitehaven Beach

On the northern end of world-famous Whitehaven Beach, Hill Inlet is one of the most picturesque spots in the Whitsundays - with white, silica sand, turquoise water, and an abundance of marine life.

Things that will love

· Travel to and from Hill Inlet on a high-speed catamaran.

· Take a guided bushwalk with an expert guide, and learn all about the history, flora and fauna of this stunning area.

· Or rather than bushwalk, spend your time on the island relaxing on the white, silica sand and enjoying the crystal clear water.

· If you're feeling energetic, you can also climb to the Hill Inlet lookout for incredible views. You may also see stingrays and turtles gliding in the waters below.

Sail & Snorkel Whitehaven & Chalkies Beach

With its turquoise water, plentiful marine life and pure silica sand, it’s easy to see why the Whitsundays is considered one of the most picturesque natural regions in the world. On this day trip from Hamilton Island, you’ll experience all the beauty of this renowned region up-close, with a visit to the spectacular Whitehaven and Chalkies beaches.

Loving things :

· Cruise in style. After leaving Hamilton Island in the morning aboard this purpose-built sailing catamaran, you will spend your day cruising around the Whitsundays, visiting some of the world’s most iconic destinations.

· Discover Whitehaven Beach. Wander the white sands and take a dip at Whitehaven Beach - voted the ‘number one beach in Australia’ by the TripAdvisor Travellers’ Choice Beaches Awards.

· Enjoy a buffet lunch. Enjoy morning/afternoon tea & lunch. Build your own wraps and rolls with freshly made salads, leg ham, turkey and cooked king prawns is served as you cruise between Whitehaven Beach and Hazelwood Island to your snorkelling destination.

· Snorkel Chalkies Beach. Upon arrival, you'll be fitted out with excellent equipment and spend an hour or so discovering the underwater home of an array of exotic and diverse marine life - including turtles.

· Quality equipment. High quality Mares snorkelling gear is supplied, along with wetsuits/stinger suits and flotation jackets. If required, your tour guide can also provide personalised snorkelling assistance.

Cruise Whitsundays Whitehaven Beach Hill Inlet & Lookout Full Day

This is the ultimate full day experience, giving you the opportunity to explore the world famous Whitehaven Beach at your own pace.

Things that you will love

· The opportunity to explore the northern and southern ends of Whitehaven Beach, including:

· The hidden delights of Hill Inlet and the lookout

· The clear blue waters, perfect for swimming

· The beautiful white silica sands

· And if weather and tidal conditions permit, spend time snorkelling at the nearby Esk Island

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Great Barrier Reef, Australia

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The Great Barrier Reef is one of the seven wonders of the natural world, and pulling away from it, and viewing it from a greater distance, you can understand why. It is larger than the Great Wall of China and the only living thing on earth visible from space.

Where Is The Great Barrier Reef?

The marine park stretches over 3000km (1800 miles) almost parallel to the Queensland coast, from near the southern coastal town of Bundaberg, up past the northern tip of Cape York.

The reef, between 15 kilometers and 150 kilometers off shore and around 65 Km wide in some parts, is a gathering of brilliant, vivid coral providing divers with the most spectacular underwater experience imaginable.

A closer encounter with the Great Barrier Reef’s impressive coral gardens reveals many astounding underwater attractions including the world’s largest collection of corals (in fact, more than 400 different kinds of coral), coral sponges, mollusks, rays, dolphins, over 1500 species of tropical fish, more than 200 types of birds, around 20 types of reptiles including sea turtles and giant clams over 120 years old.

Tourism

A scuba diver looking at a giant clam on the Great Barrier Reef

Helicopter view of the reef and boats

Due to its vast biodiversity, warm clear waters and accessibility from the tourist boats called "live aboard", the reef is a very popular destination, especially for scuba divers. Tourism on the Great Barrier Reef is concentrated in Cairns and also The Whitsundays due to their accessibility. These areas make up 7%–8% of the Park's area. The Whitsundays and Cairns have their own Plans of Management. Many cities along the Queensland coast offer daily boat trips. Several continental and coral cay islands are now resorts, including Green Island and Lady Elliot Island. As of 1996, 27 islands on the Great Barrier Reef supported resorts.

In 1996, most of the tourism in the region was domestically generated and the most popular visiting times were during the Australian winter. At this time, it was estimated that tourists to the Great Barrier Reef contributed a$776 million per annum. As the largest commercial activity in the region, it was estimated in 2003 that tourism generated over A$4 billion annually, and the 2005 estimate increased to A$5.1 billion. A Deloitte report published by the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority in March 2013 states that the Reef's 2,000 kilometers of coastline attracts tourism worth A$6.4 billion annually and employs more than 64,000 people.

Approximately two million people visit the Great Barrier Reef each year. Although most of these visits are managed in partnership with the marine tourism industry, there is a concern among the general public that tourism is harmful to the Great Barrier Reef.

A variety of boat tours and cruises are offered, from single day trips, to longer voyages. Boat sizes range from dinghies to superyachts. Glass-bottomed boats and underwater observatories are also popular, as are helicopter flights. By far, the most popular tourist activities on the Great Barrier Reef are snorkeling and diving, for which pontoons are often used, and the area is often enclosed by nets. The outer part of the Great Barrier Reef is favored for such activities, due to water quality.

Management of tourism in the Great Barrier Reef is geared towards making tourism ecologically sustainable. A daily fee is levied that goes towards research of the Great Barrier Reef. This fee ends up being 20% of the GBRMPA's income. Policies on cruise ships, bareboat charters, and anchorages limit the traffic on the Great Barrier Reef.

The problems that surround ecotourism in the Great Barrier Reef revolve around permanent tourism platforms. Platforms are large, ship-like vessels that act as a base for tourists while scuba diving and snorkeling in the Great Barrier Reef. Seabirds will land on the platforms and defecate which will eventually be washed into the sea. The feces carry nitrogen, phosphorus and often DDT and mercury, which cause aspergillosis, yellow-band disease, and black band disease. Areas without tourism platforms have 14 out of 9,468 (1.1%) diseased corals versus areas with tourism platforms that have 172 out of 7,043 (12%) diseased corals. Tourism is a major economic activity for the region. Thus, while non-permanent platforms could be possible in some areas, overall, permanent platforms are likely a necessity. Solutions have been suggested to siphon bird waste into gutters connecting to tanks helping lower runoff that causes coral disease.

The Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority has also placed many permanent anchorage points around the general use areas. These act to reduce damage to the reef due to anchoring destroying soft coral, chipping hard coral, and disturbing sediment as it is dragged across the bottom. Tourism operators also must comply with speed limits when travelling to or from tourist destinations, to prevent excessive wake from the boats disturbing the reef ecosystem.

Fishing

The fishing industry in the Great Barrier Reef, controlled by the Queensland Government, is worth a$1 billion annually. It employs approximately 2000 people, and fishing in the Great Barrier Reef is pursued commercially, for recreation, and as a traditional means for feeding one's family.

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Places to visit in Sydney, Australia

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A trip to Sydney is an essential part of any Australian holiday, and the country's largest city is often labeled as one of the most beautiful in the world due to its idyllic balance of architecture, iconic landmarks, beautiful harbor, botanic gardens and impressive skyline.

A truly vibrant city that is full of a consistent buzz and high degree of energy, Sydney will have something to captivate you regardless of whether you're an Aussie visiting from interstate or an international visitor from overseas. The city is so large and full of things to do that there are a wide range of so-called "must see" locations and sights that, if you miss them, mean you will be missing out on some of the unique features that give Sydney its own distinct personality.

Regardless of whether you're exploring the city center and its metropolitan areas, the northern and southern surf beaches that have gained their own fame, popular civic venues, landmarks and scenic spots, there is seemingly a "must see" location around every next corner!

Places to visit in Sydney, Australia

Circular Quay

Begin here for a close-up gander at the great steel arc of the Harbour Bridge and the Opera House's splendid sails. Here too, housed in a restored 1930s-designed building, is the Museum of Contemporary Art, tel: (61-2) 9245 2400, and the Customs House Library, tel: (61-2) 9242 8555. One block on, the Museum of Sydney, tel: (61-2) 9251 5988, is set behind a starkly beautiful art installation that marks initial contact between the British colonizers and the Cadigal people, the area's first Australians.

Bondi Beach

Bondi seduces many a nomad into staying put; chances are you won't hurry to leave. Swim, sunbathe or sign up for a surf lesson — a two-hour lesson at Let's Go Surfing, tel: (61-2) 9365 1800, costs $90. Or take in the spectacular stretch of sandstone cliffs and coves of the Bondi-to-Bronte walk along a one-hour, 2.5-km coastal path. And if you dally past dusk, swing past the White Revolver, on the corner of Curlewis Street and Campbell Parade, a bijou club where Bondi's style set converges.

Sydney Opera House

This is a visually stunning structure inside and out, with six individual venues that stage spectacular musical and dance performances. But you don't have to see a show to experience the Opera House. "Everyone must take the 90 minute tour! The different size venues for different performances makes this facility so alive." The opera house gives tours in several different languages: The Essential Tour costs $35, and the Backstage Tour costs $155. You can also buy tickets to a performance, although you'll need to get those well in advance as the box offices frequently sells out. You'll find the Sydney Opera House overlooking Sydney Harbor.

Sydney Harbour

Many visitors say that the Sydney Harbour is the most beautiful natural harbor in the world, and they just might be right. Blue water laps up to sandy shores over which landmarks like the Royal Botanic Gardens and the Sydney Opera House preside. Also, nearly 150 miles of shoreline encompasses more than 30 square miles of water, adding "humongous" to the harbor's list of superlatives as well. The Manly ferry for a trip right across the harbor, and great beach-side restaurants.

Sydney Botanic Gardens

The Royal Botanic Gardens are a rarity in that they provide such a cavalcade of natural floral beauty while also being so close to the Sydney CBD and the lovely panorama and landmarks of Sydney Harbour. One of the best ways to simply enjoy nature as the world passes you by all within the midst of one of the the world's busiest cities, at the Botanic Gardens you can absorb amazing views of the harbour while walking through the immaculately-maintained greenery to view the endless array of plants, trees and more all of which are accompanied by signs with detailed information on each species of flora on display.

The trees of the gardens are also often filled with birdlife such as cockatoos, as well as sleeping flying foxes hanging from the branches, adding an extra layer of nature to what is already a spectacular facility and a natural oasis with a size of over 30 hectares in total. Divided up into a series of specialized gardens, each of which emphasize a different area of the world of plant life, from Begonias to Palms, Roses to Ferns, the range of displays on offer at the Royal Botanic Gardens is truly spectacular and changes from season to season so that visiting multiple times throughout the year will often produce a bevy of new natural sights to see.

Spot sea creatures at Shelly Beach

The Sydney Aquarium is pricey but you can see plenty of marine life in its natural habitat at Shelly Beach. Take the Manly ferry and some swimming goggles. Other good places to spot sea life are Clovelly and Gordon’s Bay.

Taronga Zoo

Sydney Harbour resounding with lions' roars? Yes, really. Taronga Zoo, tel: (61-2) 9969 2777, lies on the leafy north shore. Along with thousands of exotic and native Australian animals, it comes with some dress-circle water and skyline views, and draws more than a million visitors a year. An adult ZooPass, including the ferry fare from Circular Quay, is $45; die-hards can sleep over in a luxury safari tent with after-hours adventures for $225.

Jenolan Caves

While not technically "in" Sydney, the Jenolan Caves network is another must-do and still one of the major draw cards for those who are visiting the greater Sydney area. Composed of an amazing mixture of 11 spectacular show caves, pure underground rivers, and amazing rock formations. A remarkable cave system that ranks amongst the finest and most ancient in the world, they can be reached within a reasonable 2.5 hour drive from the heart of Sydney and are well worth the trek. A true display of nature at its grandest, Jenolan Caves is an awe-inspiring display that make for a wonderful place to visit with others, with numerous different tour and cave options that showcase each of the individual caves' key features.

The Queen Victoria Building

For an extremely high-end, elegant and gracious shopping experience, you'd be hard pressed to find a place in Sydney that beats the iconic Queen Victoria Building. While the huge range of variety in shopping options is of obvious appeal, the building itself is an architectural marvel that adds a touch of class to the proceedings with many fine details in its craftsmanship that the discerning eye can appreciate.

Intricate tiling, facades, metalwork, stained-glass windows and its amazing grand staircase are just some of the things that make even simple window-shopping at the Queen Victoria Building a satisfying experience. One of the "proud old ladies" of Sydney architecture, it provides a venue where the old world ornate style of shopping can still be experienced in the hub of a modernized metropolis, with the stores on each level as you ascend increasing in both price and quality (i.e: if you're looking for bargains, the basement is the level you want to be on!), with the highest level having some truly impressive and lavish stores selling suits, jewelry, brand accessories and many other expensive, high-end products that most of us can only marvel at.

Coogee Beach

With its soft, manilla-colored sands and gentle waves, Coogee Beach is a nice spot for sunning and swimming. Plus, the eateries along the shore give beach bums several places to refuel. Although many say Bondi is the best beach in town, others argue that Coogee Beach is their favorite piece of Sydney shoreline. It is such a picturesque beach, complemented by the lovely cafes and restaurants that line all the streets leading to the beach.

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Places to see in Australia

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Places to see in Australia

Sydney

Sydney offers plenty of historical and contemporary Australian flavor. The marvelous Sydney Opera House looks like a great origami sailboat, floating peacefully in a harbor. Wander the narrow cobblestone streets of The Rocks and then take in a street performance on the Circular Quay before heading into the Museum of Contemporary Art. The views from the Sydney Tower Eye observatory are epic – use this chance to get to know the layout of the city from high above.

Melbourne

Lovely, laid-back Melbourne has something for everyone: family fare, local and international art, haute boutiques, multicultural dining, Australian and Aboriginal history, spectator sports, and pulsing, swanky nightlife. Cruise on the free City Circle Tram loop to check out unique attractions like the Royal Botanical Gardens and the Healesville Sanctuary, which buzzes with local animal species.

Brisbane

Australia’s third-largest city, Brisbane is the hub of Queensland culture, offering a peek at the past and a glimpse into the future. Visit the historic Windmill and Old Commissariat Store, built by convicts in 1828, or fast-forward to the present (and beyond) with a trip to the new Gallery of Modern Art. Mingle with locals atop Mount Coot-tha, cruise the Brisbane River to South Bank’s sandy beach on the City Cat and make sure to fill the cuteness quota at Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary, home to koalas and kangaroos.

Port Douglas

Tuck into succulent five-star meals in Port Douglas, the culinary gem of Queensland, or suck down a killer cocktail at a casually swanky lounge. A perfect base for exploring the Great Barrier Reef, the rainforest at Daintree and the beaches at Cape Tribulation, this Queensland town has an out-of-this-world setting. Sunbathe on the golden sands of Four Mile Beach, then melt into perfect pampering at one of Port Douglas’ glorious day spas for the ultimate in relaxation.

Hobart

Perched on Tasmania’s southeastern coast, the lively city of Hobart is a unique mash-up of the 19th and 21st centuries. The waterfront cafes, restaurants and studios of the largest city in Tasmania are housed in centuries-old converted warehouses that overlook a harbor bustling with yachts and fishing boats. An active arts scene, vibrant nightlife and leisurely daytime pace add to the city’s charm.

Byron Bay

Byron Bay's beaches are dotted with lighthouses and surrounded by bottlenose dolphins, rays, whales and sea turtles. This former New South Wales whaling station turned tourist town is still strongly influenced by its recent bohemian past, when hippie lifestyles flourished. Bongos and didgeridoos sound in parks, sarongs and dreadlocks are common, and vegetarian restaurants abound. Give in to the casual vibe and stroll between beaches and bars for a low-key and happy day.

Canberra

Far more than just a city of civil servants, Canberra is an oft overlooked beauty in the midst of Australia's inland hills, conveniently located between the ski slopes of Brindabella National Park and the beaches of the east coast. The country's history and culture are on proud display in the many museums, galleries and theaters, while innumerable green spaces and parks give the city a fresh vitality and colorful flair.

Darwin, Australia

Darwin has a sophisticated arts scene… and an annual Beer Can Regatta, featuring tiny boats built from booze vessels. It’s also a great sports town—you’ll find rugby, cricket, basketball and Aussie rules football at the Marrara Sports Complex and V8 Supercars action at the Hidden Valley Raceway. Hit the surf and sand at beautiful Casaurina Beach (consider yourself warned: there’s a designated nudist section) or Mindil Beach.

Hunter Valley

Nestled in the fertile Hunter Valley, Cessnock’s wine region is one of the oldest and most diverse in the world, making it a terrific destination for oenophiles. There are over 100 wineries in the area, and vineyard and cellar tours are among Cessnock’s most popular attractions. World-class golf courses, gourmet eateries, lush gardens and blissful spas round out the local appeal.

Airlie Beach

Perched on a lush peninsula at Shute Harbour, Airlie Beach is a popular jumping-off point for the Great Barrier Reef and the Whitsunday Islands. The constant comings and goings of travelers make for a vibrant nightlife scene bursting with pubs and clubs. You’ll want to swim at the man-made lagoon, though, instead of one of the town beaches—their waters are full of stinging jellyfish.

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