The Great Barrier Reef is nature at its best. Full of mystery and beautiful beyond imagination it is seemingly all things... it challenges the imagination to try and capture an essence of this superb Marine Park ecosystem with words.

This is a place that must be experienced in as many ways as possible; be it air land or sea and Whitsunday sailing holidays is just the way to do it!... In keeping with its World Heritage status everybody deserves the chance to see and experience the Great Barrier Reef.

For those yet to visit, the following is an attempt to paint the scene: ...Forming a 2300km (1400 miles) long natural seawall for much of the Queensland coast, the reef is infinitely chaotic in pattern and form... Exquisite in beauty, the Great Barrier Reef is a place where thousands of marine species flourish together as one and is a place where you will find some of the best scuba diving locations in the world.

While volumes of scientific works have described it in categories of painstaking logic, it presents the visitor with sights of the antics of animals at play... you will find over 400 species of coral, 2000 species of fish and countless other life forms that outdo any human movement in artistic form. Here is nature in every step of her glorious dance.

The Great Barrier Reef or "GBR" as it's known to some is an undersea kingdom larger than Great Britain... Almost the size of Texas and visible from space, the reef is actually a series of some 3000 individual reefs and 9000 continental islands and coral atolls covering 1 million sq km (386 000Sq miles).

The Whitsundays straddles the geographic centre of this miracle of nature and as the main boating centre on the central Queensland coast offers visitors access to the Great Barrier Reef with ease and comfort in a number of ways... you can book a Whitsunday yacht charter... organise a scuba diving holiday... take a trip on a crewed sailing yacht or select one of the many Great Barrier Reef Tours