Southern Queensland SUPERYACHT GUIDE

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Looking south up Round Hill Creek with the town of 1770 in the left foreground.

Lady Elliot Island Lady Elliot Island is the southernmost coral cay of the Great Barrier Reef, lying 46 nm northeast of Bundaberg, and is also part of the Bunker Island Group. The island is only 46 hectares and is managed by the Lady Elliot Eco-Resort operating privately since 2005 and accessible only by ferry or plane. Departure ports in the region are from Bundaberg, and Hervey Bay on the Fraser Coast. Lady Elliot Island sits within the protected ‘green zone’ of the GBRMP and is known as the ‘Home of the Manta Ray’ for its abundance of manta rays, turtles and over 1,200 other marine life species, due to its easterly location benefiting from the Eastern Australian Current. The diverse corals on the reef surrounding Lady Elliot Island are in excellent condition and divers can enjoy a wonderful mix of hard and soft corals along with the local marine life. Lady Elliot Island also has Master Reef Guides available to visitors.

Southern Great Barrier Reef

Town of 1770 and Agnes Water South of Gladstone are the two beachside communities of Seventeen Seventy (1770) and Agnes Water . The town of 1770 is famous for being named after then-Lieutenant James Cook and his crew from the Endeavour who came ashore there on 24 May 1770. The township has built up around Cook’s landing site and celebrates every May with the Captain Cook 1770 Festival . Tours out to Lady Musgrave Island also leave from 1770. Agnes Water operates as the local service town but is more known for its white sandy beaches and for being the most northern surf beach on the east coast of Australia before the Great Barrier Reef. To go ashore, book a friendly local tour operator for a half or full day tour to take guests around the historic sites of 1770 including a relaxed 30-minute walk to the lookout . Finish the day with a refreshing surf at Agnes Water. There is a public jetty for easy tender pick-up and drop-off located just south of the Volunteer Marine Rescue base next to the local marina. Refer to the Discovery Coast Beacon to Beacon Guide for 1770 . Watch the depth here at all times as waters can be shallow.

ladyelliot.com.au

visitagnes1770.com.au

gladstoneregion.info/1770-headland-and-lookout

msq.qld.gov.au/Boating-maps/Discovery-and-Capricorn-Coast-guides

The gentle surf beaches of Agnes Water, looking north towards Round Hill Head.

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