The tropical Whitsunday Islands are 1,300 miles north of Sydney. They form part of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park, a protected area with the status of World Heritage Site.
Airlie Beach is the gateway to the Whitsundays - a colourful, cosmopolitan town lying on the shores of a palm fringed beach and overlooking calm waters dotted with yachts. Airlie Beach is the destination for Flying Fish Yachtmaster trainees sailing up the East Australia Coast from Sydney, or starting the long passage back to New South Wales.
The South East trades blow reliably here during the dry season between June and September and the sailing is magnificent.
Diving on the Barrier Reef needs no introduction. The world's most famous dive site stretches for hundreds of miles off the north eastern coast of Australia.
For travel, accommodation, dive equipment, wind and weather conditions use the drop down box above or find courses and events at the Great Barrier Reef and Whitsunday Islands >>
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