There are few nature-based experiences quite as humbling as drifting over the world’s largest reef, turtles bobbing all around like drunk snorkellers, dolphins dancing in your wake, an embarrassment of tropical fish gliding over car-sized coral bommies.
The sheer immensity of the Great Barrier Reef takes your breath away – it spans some 2,300 kilometres from the tip of Cape York Peninsula in the north to Bundaberg in the south, covering 344,400 square kilometres of Coral Sea off the coast of Queensland. That’s an area around the same