You can even walk out onto the reef and look down through the crystal water at the underwater life, if you don't want to get wet. They both have a very special bird life. Fantastic diving and visibility from 25 to 50 metres. There are day return flights from Brisbane. Heron Island One of the world's best diving locations and a sanctuary for 30 species of bird including reef herons.
Turtle watching is another thing that brings non-divers to Heron.
A stay at the resort includes all meals. The conversation at dinner is likely to be about moray eels, sharks, rays and other triumphs of divers and the atmosphere is one of great after-dive camaraderie. 2 hours by fast catamaran from Gladstone. Great Keppel Fun place. Keppel was the place you went to 'get wrecked'.