By Chase Sheldon
Heron Island Resort sits on the tiny Heron Island, only about fifty miles off the coast of Queensland, Australia, and is a coral cay surrounded by the Great Barrier Reef. While it’s only about two thousand six hundred feet long and nine hundred and eighty feet wide, this island is home to more than two hundred thousand different species of birds and is situated in some of the most biodiverse waters in the world, surrounded by more than seventy-two percent of the Great Barrier Reef’s coral species. This makes this island feel old, ancient even, as the resort sits in the venerable Pisonia Forest, a flowering tree native to the coral cays of the Indian and Pacific Oceans.
The resort itself combines the best of modern living, with full accommodations, air-conditioning, and a full restaurant and bar available at the resort. With more than one hundred rooms available and accommodations suitable for more than three hundred guests, this resort is an opportunity to bond and connect with others over the love of scuba diving and wildlife in general. Explore the island with guided tours, seeing the fascinating and incredible diversity that lives on this little island, and then explore off it, when it's turtle season, and see the waves upon waves of green turtles that call the island home every year. And after these walks through ancient forests, seeing the sites, and enjoying the weather, you can come back to the resort and relax at the Aqua Soul Spa, and let all your troubles slip away.
Exploring the island is a great way to spend your time, but if you are going to Heron Island, you have to be there for diving and snorkeling. Heron Island Resort has its own on-site diving operation, meaning all the troubles and particulars of setting up a dive and getting everyone together for it are already taken care of. All you need to do is arrive. With more than twenty dive sites dotted across the waters surrounding the island, from visits to sites on the reef itself, to explorations of the waters surrounding the cay. Of course, there are also the Night Dives, where you and a select few can take a trip under the moon to key locations, enjoying the sea as it comes alive after dark.
Heron Island is inaccessible to those not part of the research station, unless you visit through Heron Island Resort, using the luxury location as a jumping off point to not only explore the island’s life and ecosystem, but also to explore the waters surrounding the island as well. Caradonna Adventures is here to assist you as well, finding you the absolute best deals for the island journey and all future experiences as well.