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| Cairns Often referred to as the `Gateway to the Great Barrier Reef` each morning, every day of the year, more than 30 boats take visitors from all over the world to experience the reefs wonders. Most of these boats offer snorkelling tuition, guided snorkel tours and both Resort and Certified Diving. The Extended Dive Charters or Live-Aboards, on the Reef or into the Coral Sea, can be from overnight or for as long as you want to book some of them for. Usually though they`re around 3 - 5 days. Big Fish, Clear Water (often 30mtrs plus). A lot of Diving. t o w n s v i l l e The unofficial capital of North Queensland is not so much a tourist town although it does offer it`s visitors a more unique Australian atmosphere. Further from the Great Barrier Reef than Cairns, Townsville has only a few Dive Tour Operators, however it does have the only decent wreck dive in North Queensland,the SS Yongala. It also has the GBRMPA Aquarium, the Queensland Museum and, just off the coast, Magnetic Island with some reasonable shore dives. p a p u a n e w g u i n e a With possibly the worlds most spectacular diving from excellent Boutique type Dive Resorts in exotic pacific locations or. `Live-Aboards` to some of the world`s more sensational sites, where visability almost always exceeds 30 metres, World War 2 wrecks, and Coral Reefs with, apparently, more than double the species of Marine life and Coral than the Caribbean or the Great Barrier Reef.
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