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Lady Musgrave Island Day Tour
Highlights
- Explore the vibrant marine life of Lady Musgrave Island, diving into a 3,000-acre lagoon teeming with colour.
- Snorkel directly from the pontoon to witness the breathtaking coral and resident turtles up close.
- Join the educational glass bottom boat tour to deepen your understanding of the Southern Great Barrier Reef.
- Savour a buffet lunch featuring the freshest local produce, enhancing your day of adventure with delicious flavours.
Lady Musgrave Experience is an award winning, advanced eco-certified tour operator. Experience the Southern Great Barrier Reef in style on a scenic day trip from Bundaberg to Lady Musgrave Island and our new pontoon, Lady Musgrave HQ. There’s something for everyone in a day trip packed with nature and wildlife.
Lady Musgrave Island is surrounded by a 3,000-acre navigable reef lagoon brimming with marine life and colourful coral and known for its resident turtles and reef fish.
Guests can immerse themselves in this spectacular underwater world straight from Lady Musgrave HQ pontoon to go snorkeling or diving. Learn more about the reef on our educational glass bottom boat tour and informative guided island walk. The tour also includes morning and afternoon tea on transfers and a buffet lunch with only the freshest local produce available.
Itinerary highlights
Lady Musgrave HQ Pontoon
Experience everything the beautiful, pristine Lady Musgrave Island and Lagoon has to offer on the Lady Musgrave Experience day tour. Lady Musgrave Island is a protected island and reef lagoon with pristine clear waters and buzzing coral reefs attracting wildlife on the Southern Great Barrier Reef.
Snorkel or scuba dive with hundreds of tropical fish and resident turtles in the crystal-clear waters of the coral reef lagoon with plenty of opportunities to encounter manta rays, reef sharks, stingrays too. Access our new zero-carbon footprint pontoon, Lady Musgrave HQ which is completely wind and solar powered with an underwater observatory and amazing reef views to enjoy your buffet lunch after working up an appetite. Freshen up with a warm shower on the pontoon’s snorkel and dive platforms. Ideal for all ages to come and explore the famous Great Barrier Reef with a variety of activities offered. You don’t even have to get wet if you don’t want to!
Tour details
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Available from 24 April 2025 to 30 September 2025
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Sevice Activity
Disabled access available, contact operator for details.
Operation information
Lady Musgrave Experience
Lady Musgrave Experience is a multi-award winning, advanced eco-certified Great Barrier Reef tour operator. Operating multiple tours daily from Bundaberg, their flagship experience is a full-day tour to Lady Musgrave Island Lagoon onboard their luxury 35-metre Catamaran ‘Reef Empress’.
Lady Musgrave Island is 45 acres surrounded by a 3,000-acre navigable reef lagoon brimming with marine life and colourful coral. Lady Musgrave Island is known for its resident turtles, manta rays, migrating humpback whales, fantastic visibility and no stingers all year round.
Select from a broad range of amazing Lady Musgrave Experience activities, creating memories that last forever or spend the day & evening aboard the keenly awaited Lady Musgrave HQ pontoon, where Reef dreams become a reality.
There are numerous tours and activities available for all.
Enjoy a full day tour to Lady Musgrave Island to swim, snorkel, or dive in the lagoon, experience our glass bottom boat and take a guided island walk with turtles nesting and hatching on the island in season. Scuba dive across multiple sites on the Great Barrier Reef for certified divers. Half-day whale watching tours from July to October. There is wreck diving for advanced certified divers. Environmental and educational programs year-round, experience private charters for special events.
Lady Musgrave HQ – a world-class liveaboard pontoon in the lagoon, offering overnight accommodation.
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Accreditations
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Climate Action Business Certified by Ecotourism Australia
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EarthCheck Certified
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ECO Certified (Advanced Ecotourism) by Ecotourism Australia
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Professional Association of Diving Instructors
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Quality Tourism Accreditation
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Respecting Our Culture (ROC) Certified by Ecotourism Australia
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Scuba Schools International
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Sustainable Tourism Accreditation by ATIC
Memberships
- Australian Tourism Export Council
- Queensland Tourism Industry Council
- Regional Tourist/Tourism Association/Organisation
- Visitor Information Centre
- QLD – Bundaberg North Burnett Tourism
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