by Sunlover Reef Cruises | Sep 4, 2026 | Local Activities
Quick answer: Fitzroy Island or Green Island? Both are Great Barrier Reef islands close to Cairns, but they’re genuinely different experiences. Fitzroy Island is a large, rainforest-covered national park with granite peaks up to 269m, 4 walking tracks, a turtle...
by Sunlover Reef Cruises | Sep 4, 2026 | Blog, Scuba Diving, SCUBA Training
Ask a group of divers why they dive and sooner or later someone says it: underwater is the only place their brain goes quiet. It turns out there is research on that — and one finding in it we would like to fix. Quick answer: divers say it helps, and most never mention...
by Sunlover Reef Cruises | Sep 3, 2026 | Blog, First Time Scuba Diving, Scuba Diving, SCUBA Training
Of all the things that stop people booking a dive course, the medical is the one that causes the most quiet worry and gets the least clear explanation. So here is what is actually involved, what happens if you tick “yes” to something, and why leaving it...
by Sunlover Reef Cruises | Sep 2, 2026 | Blog, Scuba Diving, SCUBA Training, Updates
We have been teaching people to dive off Cairns for a long time — more than 110,000 divers, which is a number we are quietly proud of. Our dive school runs as an SSI Training Centre. Here is what that means, and honestly, what it does not. Quick answer: same reef,...
by Sunlover Reef Cruises | Sep 1, 2026 | Blog, First Time Scuba Diving, Scuba Diving, SCUBA Training
Getting scuba certified is one of those things that looks more complicated from the outside than it turns out to be. There are competing agencies, a medical form, a swim test, and a lot of websites that would rather sell you something than explain the process. So here...
