by Michelle Barry | Jul 21, 2026 | Activities, Blog, Local Activites
A Fitzroy Island day trip is one of the easiest Great Barrier Reef escapes you can make from Cairns. It is a rainforest-covered national park rising straight out of the Coral Sea, ringed by coral reef you can snorkel straight off the beach — and it is only 45 minutes...
by Michelle Barry | Jun 17, 2026 | First Time Scuba Diving, Scuba Diving
src="https://sunlover.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/2103.jpg" alt="Three divers giving thumbs up underwater at Moore Reef with a coral grouper, Great Barrier Reef" loading="eager" /DIVE IN First-Time Diving on the Great Barrier Reef with Sunlover Reef CruisesEvery...
by Michelle Barry | Jun 15, 2026 | Blog, Conservation, Updates
Visitor Update Fitzroy Island Planned Burn: Track Closures, Visitor Safety and Why Fire Helps Protect Country Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service has advised that planned burning will commence in Fitzroy Island National Park from 18 June 2026 as part of its annual...
by Michelle Barry | May 29, 2026 | Conservation
Climate Change and the Great Barrier Reef: What's Happening and How You Can HelpClimate change is the single greatest threat to the Great Barrier Reef. There have been six mass bleaching events since 2016. The 2024 event had the largest footprint ever recorded. In...
by Michelle Barry | May 29, 2026 | Blog, Wildlife
Winter on the Great Barrier Reef: The Humpback Highway Is Open Winter on the Great Barrier Reef is not grey, cold or sleepy. From Cairns, winter often means blue water, sunshine, lower humidity, fresh sea breezes and one of the most extraordinary wildlife movements on...
