Poor Knights Island and Great Barrier Reef

SmallOne

请问有谁在Poor Knights Island (NZ) 或 Great Barrier Reef (AUS)潜过？ 可以分享你的经验吗？ 谢谢

jgshuwei

原帖由 SmallOne 于 29-8-2007 05:35 PM 发表
请问有谁在Poor Knights Island (NZ) 或 Great Barrier Reef (AUS)潜过？ 可以分享你的经验吗？ 谢谢

我没有。。。

方野十狼

原帖由 SmallOne 于 29-8-2007 05:35 PM 发表
请问有谁在Poor Knights Island (NZ) 或 Great Barrier Reef (AUS)潜过？ 可以分享你的经验吗？ 谢谢

“明天会更好”她应该有去过吧？

您不妨去问问她吧！



[ 本帖最后由 方野十狼 于 30-8-2007 08:30 PM 编辑 ]

chua2856

Exploring the Great Barrier Reef
Source: The Telegraph, 30 July 2007

Planning a trip to the Great Barrier Reef? Sasha Bates reveals how to make the most of a visit to one of the natural wonders of the world.

The Great Barrier Reef is one of the world's most celebrated and evocative destinations - all crystal clear waters, white sand and rainbow-hued marine life. The world's largest coral reef, it stretches for more than 1,250 miles parallel to the coast of Queensland, home to 500 species of tropical fish and hundreds of different types of starfish, sea urchins, molluscs, sponges, and crustaceans. Even turtles, whales, dolphins and manatees visit in season.

The Great Barrier Reef is the most protected coral reef system on earth
Snorkelling and diving are the main reasons to visit the reef, but even if you hate water, it is still worth visiting. Of the 900 islands, 100 are habitable and landlubbers can walk in unspoilt rainforest among the 2,000 plant species, or just enjoy superb hotels and spas.

But with such a large destination, what is the best way to tackle it? Here are my tips:

Flying visits
Even if you only have a day to spare, it is still worth making a visit to the reef, with Cairns, Townsville and Airlie Beach all good jumping-off points for a day trip.

From Cairns in the far north of Queensland, a 45-minute boat ride will take you to Green Island. This is one of the smallest islands on the reef and looks like a child's drawing of a deserted island - lush vegetation, fringed with white sand and surrounded by azure seas. Snorkelling here is superb right from the beach. Big Cat Green Island Reef Cruises (0061 7 4051 0444; www.bigcat-cruises.com.au), found at Reef Fleet Terminal on Spence Street, does day trips for just £18, including snorkelling gear.

A little farther south, a 20-minute catamaran ride from Townsville will take you to Magnetic Island. Visibility is not quite so good for snorkellers but it is close to Yongala, voted one of the world's top five wreck dive sites. It also has a reputation for good dive schools for beginners.

From Shute Bay near Airlie Beach on Queensland's central coast, a ferry will take you to Daydream Island, two miles away. It is very child-friendly and has a huge outdoor aquarium for nervous swimmers and children. Alternatively, take a one-day sailing trip, see a number of different islands and snorkel from the boat itself. Cruise Whitsundays (4946 4662; www.cruisewhitsundays.com) offers a variety of trips.

Two-day trips

If you have a couple of days to spare, I recommend splashing out on a really luxurious experience. The two most exclusive resorts on the reef are on Lizard and Bedarra islands. The individual wooden villas, just 40 on Lizard and 16 on Bedarra, blend effortlessly with the natural environment of the rainforest, are beautifully equipped and provide exemplary food and service.

Lizard Island is the most northerly of the resort islands. Most of its vast hinterland is national park and there is wonderful hiking through lush forests rich in wildlife. It also boasts some of the best diving on the reef and has fantastic and easily accessible snorkelling - borrow one of the motorised dinghies and take yourself off to a nearby island to snorkel from the beach. The deep-sea fishing here is also highly rated. With 24 beaches to choose from, it feels as though you practically have the place to yourself.

Bedarra Island is equally luxurious and, with even fewer guests, feels still more exclusive. However, it is a little farther from the reef itself so snorkelling and diving are a longer boat trip away. Here, too, you are get a real sense of how the other half lives, with top class service and fantastic food and wines all included in the price.

Both resorts are owned by Voyages (1300 134 044; www.voyages.com.au; doubles from £665 a night). Qantas, Jetstar and Virgin Blue fly to Cairns from Sydney for approximately £120, with a flying time of three hours. From Cairns to Lizard is a 60-minute flight with Hinterland Air (from £82 one-way). From Cairns to Bedarra is slightly more complicated. A 40-minute Hinterland flight to neighbouring Dunk Island costs £80, then there is a further 40 minutes on a boat. All transfers can be arranged when booking your stay.

Longer stays

A full week gives you far more choice: travel farther away to a more remote island; choose a sailing trip and visit different islands; or make your money go further and opt for a slightly more cheap and cheerful option with plenty of activities on offer.

Best for sailing

The group of 74 islands known as the Whitsundays lies opposite the town of Airlie Beach. Easily accessible, they provide the best year-round sailing opportunities in the country, good both for novices and for experienced sailors.

Each island has its own characteristics, but all provide good snorkelling and diving opportunities. Expensive Hayman is home to a five-star resort with the largest swimming pool in the southern hemisphere; Hamilton has its own airport, is the biggest inhabited island in the group and the most commercialised, with a huge variety of different hotels and self-catering options; quieter, more affordable South Molle is a national park and great for walking and birdwatching; while Hook is for the more adventurous, as you need to camp. It has the highest mountain in the group and some good examples of Aboriginal cave paintings. Another big draw is Whitehaven beach, on uninhabited Whitsunday Island. With nearly four miles of pure white silica sand, it is consistently voted one of the top three beaches in the world and is easily visited on a day-long sailing trip.

If you want to eschew land in favour of life on board a sailing boat there are many options: Whitsunday Tourism (www.whitsundaytourism.com.au) offers three-day sails for between £77 and £145. Or if you want to skipper yourself, then you can go bareboating. Prices vary depending on the type of boat, but most sleep between six and 10 and range from £145 to £270 a night. A private charter, a fully crewed boat to yourself, costs from £500 to £625 a night.

Sunsail (0870 112 8612; www.sunsail.co.uk), a consistently reliable sailing holiday company, offers bareboat yacht charters for one or two weeks; it also runs accredited sailing courses where you can learn to skipper or crew. Choose accommodation on board your vessel, or on Hamilton Island.

Fly directly to Hamilton Island from Sydney in 2½ hours from £120. From Hamilton, ferries regularly service the other islands.

Best for snorkelling

Heron Island (2 8296 8010; www.heronisland.com; doubles from £200) is a one of the few true coral cay islands - actually made of coral and situated right on the reef itself. This is a huge advantage as there is no messing about with boat trips - you can snorkel directly from the beach. And what snorkelling it is. The range of fish and coral is divine and I saw turtles, manta rays, even a small, harmless shark. It also has one of the best dive sites on the reef and, with its own research centre, has the added benefit of being both a bird sanctuary and a turtle nesting ground.

Consequently it tends to attract nature lovers and you can join guided reef walks at low tide, island ecology walks, birdlife walks, even go stargazing. No buildings have been built above the tree line, and no daytrippers are allowed, which makes it a quiet, attractive and unobtrusive resort.

Getting there is quite an effort so you need a few days to make it worthwhile. Flying to the nearest town of Gladstone from Sydney requires changing planes in Brisbane and, depending on transfer time, can take between four and eight hours. (Qantas flies there from £250). Next you have the choice between a two-hour boat trip at a cost of £80 or a half-hour helicopter ride for £220.

Getting there

Audley Travel (01993 838800; www.audleytravel.com) can arrange tailor-made tours of Australia to include the Great Barrier Reef. A 14-day itinerary taking in Sydney, Ayers Rock and four nights on Dunk Island costs from £3,225 per person, including flights.

Tailor Made Travel (0845 456 8006; www.tailor-made.co.uk) offers a four-night Coral Princess cruise from Cairns to Lizard Island from £699 per person based on twin share; flights to Cairns with Qantas are also offered from £914.

Australian Pacific Touring (020 8879 7444; www.aptouring.co.uk) organises a variety of tours to the Great Barrier Reef. Its Barrier Reef Island Wanderer Tour can be taken in eight, 11 or 13 days, costing from £1,695 to £2,395 per person with meals but excluding international flights.

Australian specialist Turquoise Holidays (01494 678400; www.turquoiseholidays.co.uk) offers a 10-night stay on the Great Barrier Reef, including five nights on Lizard Island and five nights on the brand-new Qualia in the Whitsundays from £4,395 per person, including international and domestic flights, all meals and many activities.

方野十狼

全都是“昂磨”！！！

有空翻译下。

明天会更好

原帖由 方野十狼 于 30-8-2007 08:29 PM 发表

http://c0la.blogs.friendster.com/photos/my_exoterica/rose_1.jpg

“明天会更好”她应该有去过吧？

您不妨去问问她吧！

要懂甚麼??可以問問下...
可我記得的不多...

~@Star@~

原帖由 方野十狼 于 31-8-2007 06:46 PM 发表
全都是“昂磨”！！！

有空翻译下。

是咯。。。

只有它认识我 ，我不认识它

jgshuwei

不需要那么怕英文（如果你们是在开玩笑，我也是！）认识多一种语文，你就可以有多一种选择。如果要等中国强大起来，全世界都以中文沟通的日子还很远！日本是全世界 GDP 排名第二的国家，很多人学日语，但还不到普及的程度。

大家也想有一天去完全世界的潜点，英文不行就会限制你的沟通。不要自卑，大家都是一样有自己的问题的。

SmallOne

我也没有去过。。哈哈
所以不要伤心

SmallOne

谢谢你。。我会向明天会更好拿info..

SmallOne

请你帮帮我回答以下的问题：
1.什么季节去Great Barrier Reef diving 是最好的？九月可以潜吗？
2.可以介绍那间好的dive center which provide good service and reasonable price diving  package?
3.那几个dive sites 比较美？你有看到whale and dolphin 吗？
谢谢

SmallOne

谢谢你的资料...你有在 Great Barrier Reef 潜过吗？可以分享你的经验吗？

chua2856

原帖由 SmallOne 于 3-9-2007 12:03 AM 发表
谢谢你的资料...你有在 Great Barrier Reef 潜过吗？可以分享你的经验吗？

還沒去過,那個是夢想來的,先準備去sipadan,近的先去....

明天会更好

原帖由 SmallOne 于 2-9-2007 11:58 PM 发表
请你帮帮我回答以下的问题：
1.什么季节去Great Barrier Reef diving 是最好的？九月可以潜吗？
2.可以介绍那间好的dive center which provide good service and reasonable price diving  package?
3.那几个dive sites 比较美？你有看到whale and dolphin 吗？

先用我的常识回答你的问题
1。不是很清楚。。等下帮你找答案。。
     九月应该没问题。。那里是常年都可以dive的。。

2。那里的dive centre是多到乱七八糟。。 其实是看你想去那里一个dive site看。。。
    何这里的dive centre很不一样的是：他们每个dive centre只拥有可以去某几个dive site的licence...所以每间dive center有责任保护他们的dive site..以避免受破坏。。被破坏，不美了，就没有人要去。。酱他们的生意就做不成。。所以，要表保护就看他们自己了。。。
我那是在那里是学潜水，拿执照。。。我是跟down under dive centre http://www.downunderdive.com.au/
你可以参考参考。。。选择这间是因为它的course 便宜。。我7月去。。旺季。。很喜欢那里。。。

3。我真得不懂。。。那时去那执照。。没有管那么多。。不好意思。。。我没有看到whale,也没有看到dolphin...
stingray就看到蛮多的。。



顺便提提：我在cairns也作了我人生第一次的sky-diving....跳飞机！！！10,000 feet!
很爽。。在天空中飞。。。
你有过去的话，也可以try...

我没有时间做bungy jump..你有空的话。。 去帮我跳下。。。

看到电视节目，再cairns的某一件pub,晚上有的跳室内bungy...很刺激下。。
可是我是在回到马来西亚后才懂的
后悔到。。

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大堡礁这一片广大的珊瑚礁绵长二千多公里，由澳大利亚大陆东北的班达堡海岸向北延伸到新几内亚的南岸，是目前世界上最大的活珊瑚群，由大约二千五百个珊瑚礁及为数五百个的岛屿所组成，总面积约有二十三万平方公里。它所包容的海水面积，比英国本土的大不列颠岛(Great Britain)还大，就连在月球上也都能清楚地指认出这一带状的美丽珊瑚礁。

大堡礁中的珊瑚共有四百种活的珊瑚，颜色从一般的蓝色、鹿角棕色到错综复杂、难以置信的粉红及紫海扇，使整个珊瑚海岸呈现不同的色彩，令人叹为观止！除了珊瑚种类繁多，大堡瞧的海洋生物也是千奇百怪，超过一千五百多种的鱼类其鲜艳、亮丽的颜色，足与珊瑚相媲美。此外还有数之不尽的珊瑚藻、甲壳动物、虫类、软件动物和棘皮动物，色彩千变万化、鲜艳迷人。

根据雪梨大学与苏黎世联邦科技学院所组成的研究小组于一九九Ｏ年发表的研究，目前大堡礁的这些珊瑚礁已有一百七十五万年的寿命，已经历过十二次的死亡与再生；造成珊瑚死亡与再生的原因，与地球的温度、海洋的上升与下沉有着莫大的关系。

由于有这么多的生命群构成大堡礁这一片美丽的海底世界，而这一大片的珊瑚礁距离陆地大约有几十公里的距离，也因此不受陆地的污染，才得以维持它的生命。一九七六年澳洲政府设立了「大堡礁海岸公园」，开始保护这片广大而又具有价值的水域，也使得大堡礁逐渐发展成为世界驰名的旅游胜地。


转自：http://group.mosh.cn/diverhome/viewthread.php?tid=497

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转自：http://www.prodive-cairns.com.au/faq.html
p/s: prodive在cairns是给有钱人去的dive centre..

Q. What is the best time of year to dive in Queensland?
A. The warm waters of Tropical North Queenslandare ideal for year round diving. Water temperature can vary from 22° to28° Celsius (75° to 85°F).

Summer (Dec-Feb) Autumn (Mar-May) Winter (Jun-Aug) Spring (Sep-Nov) Overall great marine life activity with plenty to see Overall great marine life activity with plenty to see Minke Whales & Humpback Whales Coral Spawning (Nov) & Humpback Whales Visibility - Very Good Visibility - Good Visibility - Good Visibility - Excellent Water temperature 29°C (85°F) Water temperature 25-27°C (80°F) Water temperature 22-24°C (70°F) Water temperature 25-27°C (80°F) Generally calm sea conditions Calm to moderate sea Moderate sea conditions         Generally calm sea conditions Possible moderate rain Potential moderate rain Low rainfall Low rain fall

Q. 一年内哪一个季节是最适合在昆士兰潜水?
A. 北昆士兰的热带海域是一整年任何月份/季节都适合潜水的活动。水温大约是介于22° 到28° C。

夏季（十二月-二月） 秋季 (三月-五月) 冬季(六月-八月) 春季(九月-十一月) 基本上，可以看到很多各种不同 的海里生物的生活行为。 很不错的潜水时间。 基本上，可以看到很多各种不同 的海里生物的生活行为。 很不错的潜水时间。 小须鲸&驼背鲸 珊瑚产卵期 (十一月) & 驼背鲸 能见度- 非常好 能见度- 好 能见度- 好 能见度- 极度非常好 水温 29°C 水温 25-27°C 水温 22-24°C 水温 25-27°C 一般上海面平静 平静至中浪的海 中浪的海 一般上海面平静 有可能有适中的雨水 潜在可能有适中的雨水 低降雨量 低降雨量

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Q. Are there sharks on the Great Barrier Reef?
A. Yes, there are sharks in every ocean. Avariety of sharks inhabit the Great Barrier Reef. What we most commonlyencounter are smaller species which pose no threat to divers orsnorkellers. The shark that Australia is infamous for, the Great WhiteShark does not exist in Far North Queensland.

Q. 大堡礁有没有鲨鱼?
A. 有，每个海洋都有鲨鱼。多种的鲨鱼品种居住在大堡礁。 我们通常遇到比较小的品种，这些品种是不会对潜水员或者是浮浅人士照成威胁. 在澳洲声名狼藉的大白鲨是不会出现在远北的昆士兰海域。



Q. I have heard about the stinging jellyfish. Can I still go diving?
A. Stingers, also known as box jellyfish, arecoastal dwellers and are never seen on the reef. They breed in theestuaries and live their life on the shoreline, therefore do not pose athreat to divers on the reef. The jellyfish season is from November toApril. Swimming enclosures are provided at local beaches for people toswim in.

Q. 我听说过会蜇人的水母，我还可以去潜水吗?
A. 通常，会蜇人的水母，是出现在沿海地区，而不出现在暗礁地带。他们在河口繁殖，在海岸线生活，所以对于在暗礁潜水的潜水员并不造成伤害。 水母的季节是十一月到四月，海岸将设置游泳的围栏以策游泳认识的安全。


Q. When I travel with Pro Dive Cairns, where will I be diving?
A. We have 16 exclusive dive sites on 4spectacular outer reefs. The reefs: Thetford, Pellowe, Milln and Flynnare situated on the Outer Great Barrier Reef, South East from Cairns.These sites are rarely visited by other vessels, so divers andsnorkellers get the exclusive opportunity to view magnificent coralsand fish life without the crowds. We generally only ever do two divesat any one dive site.

Q. 如果我参加Pro Dive Cairns, 我会去那里?
A. 我们有16各独特的dive sites在 4个壮观的远海暗礁。包括: Thetford, Pellowe, Milln 和 Flynn是位于大堡礁外,凯恩斯的东南部.这些潜点是其他船只很少会参观的地方。所以，潜水员和浮浅员可以有高级的机会来观赏这些宏伟的珊瑚礁的鱼类，并且可以避开人群。我们通常会在同一个潜点作两次潜水。


Q. What depths will I be diving to?
A. The Great Barrier Reef is generally not adeep dive destination. Our dive sites have an average depth range of 10- 25 metres. As coral relies on sunlight for growth, someof the best snorkelling and diving can be done in shallow areas aroundthe reef top.

Q. 我可以潜到多深?
A.基本上，大堡礁不是一个很深的潜点。我们的潜点大约是介于10-25m.珊瑚是依靠阳光生长的。所以有些很好的潜点会是很浅的地方。




先翻到这里。。。翻得不好表骂我。。。
其他的faq很general knowledge...
你们有什么想懂的。。大概refer回那个page...
再问我咯。。。
我懒惰每个都翻。。

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http://www.mytourpal.com/divingG ... MackayCapricorn.htm

这个也不错。。mark下来先。。
等下空一点再翻。。

~@Star@~

明天会更好 ， 为什么你会在那里拿 OW 的？？？

明天会更好

原帖由 ~@Star@~ 于 3-9-2007 07:15 PM 发表
明天会更好 ， 为什么你会在那里拿 OW 的？？？

因为想去热一点的地方过冬。。。
又想做一点以前没有做过的事。。。