Sunlover Cruise : Great Barrier Reef Full-Day Reef Tour
Whether you’re an adventure seeker, experienced diver or it’s your first visit to the Great Barrier Reef, our expert team will deliver a unique reef tour experience for you. Sunlover’s aim is simple: share our passion for the reef and ensure that you make memories that last a lifetime.
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Reef Tours from Cairns
From our home base in the vibrant tropical city of Cairns, Sunlover is perfectly positioned for reef tours and day trips to the Great Barrier Reef. We love what we do and we’re passionate about where we get to do it – Cairns and out to the magnificent Great Barrier Reef and Fitzroy Island.
Enjoy a Tropical Banquet Lunch
Sunlover has teamed up with Palm Cove’s Nu Nu Restaurant to offer a brilliant on-board menu for passengers on the Moore Reef full-day tour.
Great Barrier Reef Snorkelling
Snorkelling is our most popular activity and one of the best ways to see the Great Barrier Reef. From the moment you push off the snorkel platform, you enter a world of dazzling marine life, including our resident sea turtles and Maori Wrasse ‘Wally,’ as well as hundreds of species of hard and soft corals, sea stars, giant clams, sea cucumbers, clown fish (aka Nemo), parrot fish, angel fish, butterfly fish, and much, much more.
Itinerary
- 8:45 am Check-in opens
- 9.30 Check-in closes
- 10:00 am Depart Cairns Marina
- 11:30am-3:30pm Moore Reef pontoon
- 5:30 pm Arrive at Cairns Marina
With a range of included activities and exclusive use of our custom-designed floating pontoon, all ages and abilities can explore and enjoy the wonders of the Great Barrier Reef. With clear water, colourful coral, abundant fish life and friendly resident turtles and Maori wrasse, Moore Reef is the ultimate destination to experience all that the outer reef has to offer.
Swimmers of all abilities can snorkel in the natural lagoon or stay dry with our semi-submersible and glass-bottom boat tours. You can also visit our underwater observatory to discover the world’s most impressive natural fish tank and get up close and personal with marine life in our touch tank presentations. Young kids can have fun in our enclosed ocean pool or swirl down Sunlover’s 30-metre spiralling waterslide into the tropical ocean. A trained lifeguard is always on watch from an elevated lifeguard station, and there’s easy entry to the water from two snorkel platforms, both of which are accessible by stairs.
For those who want even more adventure, you can add (Extra Cost) to your experience a guided snorkel tour, Seawalker helmet dive, introductory and certified SCUBA dives or take to the sky for a scenic helicopter flight.
Choose from Various Popular Packages/Combo
- Moore Reef Cruise + Seawalker or Introductory Dive: Experience a 20-30 minute platform dive/Seawalker Helmet Dive, with instruction from an instructor, including all equipment.
- Moore Reef Cruise + 10-minute Helicopter Sightseeing: Take off and land on a sea platform in a cool red helicopter, and enjoy a 10-minute bird's-eye view of the beautiful Coral Sea.
- Luxury Helicopter Package - Fly to/Cruise Back, Cruise to/Fly Back, or Fly Round-Trip: Take a helicopter directly from the city centre helipad to the outer reef platform (about a 25-minute scenic flight one-way), enjoy VIP treatment, and no worries about seasickness.
Luxury Helicopter Packages (Fly/Cruise or Cruise/Fly):
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Sunlover also offers combined helicopter and cruise packages for a truly unique experience. These packages provide stunning aerial views of the reef.
Fly to Reef/Cruise Back:
- 10:50am: Check-in at Sunlover desk at Reef Fleet Terminal
- 11:00am: take a ride and transfer to Zoom hangar for helicopter tour
- Arrive Sunlover Pontoon: 12:10pm
- 12:40 pm: Arrive at Moore Reef
- 3:45 pm: Depart Moore Reef by cruise
- 5:30 pm: Arrive in Cairns
Cruise to Reef/Fly Back:
- 8:30 am: Check-in at the marina
- 9:30 am: Cruise departure
- 9:35 am: Report to Nautilus Helicopter desk onboard
- 11:15 am: Arrive at Moore Reef
- 3:10 pm: Depart Moore Reef by helicopter
- 3:30 pm: Arrive in Cairns Helipcopter landing pad
Fly to Reef/Fly Back:
- 10:50am: check-in at Reef Fleet Terminal
- 11:00am: transfer to Zoom hangar
- return 4:10pm at Zoom hangar
- 4:30pm arrival at terminal
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