Romantic Heron Island Vacations TravelWizard. Heron Island is a coral cay on the Great Barrier Reef and lies in the Tropic of Capricorn 70 kilometres north of Gladstone. Rated as one of the best diving locations on earth, the reef is practically at your doorstep. Among the music of seabirds, tracks of turtles and multi- coloured clouds of fish, the feeling that you're a guest of nature itself is inescapable. The resort offers several standards of accommodation designed to suit all tastes and budgets.
Heron Island is located off the Queensland city of Gladstone.
It is beautiful island, famous with divers world-wide for its crystal clear water and diving and snorkeling right off the island itself. There is a range of accommodations from bunkhouse to beachside units with private facilities. The Barrier Reef's fragile ecology is taken seriously. Heron is the only international resort on the Great Barrier Reef exclusively devoted to island guests. The Great Barrier Reef consists of a tangled maze of reefs and islands stretching two thousand kilometres along the Queensland coast.