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Coral Sea Safari
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Duration: 7 Nights
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Departing: Every Thursday 7pm, Cairns
Trinity Wharf
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Returning: Every Thursday 7am, Complimentary
transfers to local accommodation
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7 nights / 6 dive days – Unlimited diving
(approx. 26 dives or 28 dives whole vessel charter)
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Thursday: Check-in and Departure
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Prior to 4:00pm. Check-in luggage
at Mike Ball office - 143 Lake Street, Cairns.
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If unable to check-in prior to
4:00pm phone us on 07 4031 5484 for departure details.
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6:00pm our crew meet you at the
Cairns Corporate Towers entrance and escort you to Spoilsport –
Trinity Wharf.
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Cruise overnight to the magnificent
Ribbon Reefs, the first stop on your 700km dive odyssey.
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Friday: Ribbon Reef #9 - Pixie
Gardens, Cod Hole
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Buddy up with diver size fish that
dive with you at the Cod Hole!
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Swim with giant potato cod, napoleon
wrasse, moray eels, tuna and barracuda.
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Enjoy close encounters with huge
Maori wrasse.
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Anticipate spectacular coral gardens,
spotted rays, reef sharks and green turtle sightings.
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Night dive where decorator crabs,
egg cowry shells, moray eels and crayfish are just a few of the
creatures you can find.
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Saturday & Sunday: Coral Sea
- Osprey Reef
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Cruise 100 miles overnight to Osprey
Reef in the Coral Sea.
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Enjoy 40 meter (132ft) visibility
with spectacular walls disappearing to 1000metres.
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Witness the resident shark population
including grey whalers, whitetip reef sharks, silvertips and hammerheads.
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Search for the commonly seen green
and loggerhead turtles.
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Find the caves, overhangs and spectacular
walls adorned with huge soft coral trees and gorgonian fans.
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Monday: Lizard Island & Ribbon
Reef #10 & #9 – Cod Wall, Cod Hole, Challenger Bay
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Climb “Cook’s Look” at Lizard Island
where Captain Cook searched for safe passage through the reef.
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Explore the rarely dived Cod Wall
at the outer reef edge that disappears into 60 meters (200ft)
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Glide back towards the Cod Hole
while enjoying the clear water and spectacular coral formations.
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Shallow but fantastic, Challenger
Bay is extremely rich in biodiversity from spectacular coral gardens
and unusual critters through to large schooling fish. Great night
dive location… watch out for Baza the Barra!
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Tuesday: Ribbon Reef #9, #5,
#4 - Lighthouse Bommie, Pixie Pinnacle, Andy’s Postcard, Clam Beds,
Vertical Gdns
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Circumnavigate Pixie Pinnacle and
Lighthouse Bommie shrouded in fusiliers and baitfish. Fluorescent
purple and orange anthias attract predatory fish to these photogenic
sites. Majestic Minke whales are seen here in June and July.
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Rising from 80 meters the pinnacle
of Andy’s Postcard is encrusted in hard corals, lion fish, nudibranchs,
octopus, schooling trevally and barracuda.
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See spectacular giant clams at Clam
Beds as well as caves, canyons and coral encrusted bommies awaiting
exploration.
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Sheer walls covered in whip corals
and sea fans brim the natural amphitheatre of Vertical Gardens.
Marine life varies from the many colourful nudibranchs to large
schooling bump head parrotfish.
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Wednesday: Ribbon Reef #3 - Flare
Point, Joani’s Joy, Steve’s Bommie
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Spiral majestic coral pinnacles
teeming with marine life.
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See huge schools of baitfish stalked
by barracuda, mackerel and trevally.
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Anticipate spectacular coral gardens,
spotted rays, reef sharks and green turtle sightings.
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Thursday: Dock
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Early morning docking at Trinity
Wharf - Cairns, breakfast, 8:00am courtesy transfers to Cairns city
hotels.
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Prime dives sites - GUARANTEED!
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This itinerary has been designed
to include the ‘prime’ Ribbon Reef and Coral Sea dive sites.
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If weather forces an itinerary change
our surety of access to the prime Ribbon Reef sites is your guarantee
of the best possible diving.
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Spoilsport’s outstanding stability
minimises disruption to your itinerary and your diving experience.
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PRICES
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Note:
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Itinerary subject to change.
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Flying After Diving - the surface
interval between the last dive completed at 5pm and flying at 9.30am
is 16.5 hours, which exceeds the DAN minimum requirement of 12 hours.
An additional safety feature is that Hinterland Air fly below 1000ft
(weather permitting).
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