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REEF BIOSEARCH TURNS 21
A milestone for Great Barrier Reef research
 Quicksilver’s environmental division, Reef Biosearch, is celebrating 21 years of operation, highlighting our passion and commitment to the future sustainability of the Great Barrier Reef.
Founded in 1986 and focused on education, research and monitoring, Reef Biosearch is a team of 8 qualified marine biologists ready to share their knowledge and love of the Great Barrier Reef with our visitors. This is the largest team of marine biologists outside of government agencies!
As well as informative reef presentations they help guests to view the reef with informed eyes and are available all day for guests to interact with. On Low Isles guests have the benefit of many inclusive marine biologist activities including a guided beach walk and guided snorkel tour..... Read Full Story
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GREEN ISLAND RESORT LAUNCHES NEW BROCHURE AND WEBSITE
The new look Green Island Resort website is now on line and is complemented with a beautiful new brochure to showcase the unique qualities of this romantic and most special Tropical North Queensland island resort. Check out the new site at www.greenislandresort.com.au. Brochures in English and Italian are currently available for download.As a matter of pride, Green Island Resort has again been awarded AAA Tourism’s highest Australian hotel accommodation classification – 5 Star rating. As part of AAA’s rigorous assessment program, hotels are reviewed every 12-15 months. |
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GREAT BARRIER REEF TRAVEL SHOP OPENS IN SOUTHERN CHINA
In a Quicksilver Group initiative, leading Chinese travel group CITS Shenzhen has branded a new Cairns Australia Great Barrier Reef travel agent shop in the South China province of Guangzhou.
With the aim to promote Australia’s world-renowned Great Barrier Reef and the Tropical North Queensland region, the newly branded travel shop was officially opened on 14 July 2007 ... Read Full |
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RAVE REVIEWS FOR SILVERSWIFT
In service since December 2006, the brand new 29m Silver Series dive and snorkel vessel, Silverswift is proving a star performer in the Cairns market. Custom-built at a cost of $3.5million, she is the only Cairns day dive vessel to visit 3 sites daily and taking just 60 minutes to reach the outer reef, is the fastest. This means more time for aquatic adventures! Like her identical sister ship based in Port Douglas, Silversonic, she features a state-of-the-art ride control system for improved passenger comfort. These are the only two vessels in the region with this patented ride control system.
See our Quickie's postcard! |
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UK DIVER CELEBRATES PRO DIVE CAIRNS 90,000th CERTIFICATION
The team at Pro Dive Cairns along with English tourist Ian Davies, are celebrating an amazing milestone and an achievement rarely attained in the global dive industry by recently issuing their 90,000th PADI dive certification. PADI is the world’s largest diver education system. Ian, who came to Cairns to dive on the Great Barrier Reef and complete his PADI Advanced Diver certification as part of his Australian holiday, was overwhelmed at his experience and good fortune ... Read Full Story |
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CHANGE YOUR LATITUDE WITH QUICKSILVER
Quicksilver is proud to support Tourism Tropical North Queensland’s new destinational branding, “Change your latitude” You might notice our flagship wavepiercer, Quicksilver VIII, and Green Island in some of their new collateral. We invite you to join us and change your latitude to Tropical North Queensland! ... See Poster |
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CELEBRITY WHALE DELIGHTS SILVERSONIC PASSENGERS
It was a once in a lifetime encounter for passengers aboard the luxury dive and snorkel vessel Silversonic when Migaloo, the rare white humpback whale, was sighted swimming just north of Undine Cay. The extremely excited passengers and crew were in awe as Migaloo was sighted with two other humpback whales either side of him, described by Skipper Shane Down as his bodyguards. Quite fitting for this ‘celebrity’ whale!
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SEEN ON GREEN - FORMER MISS UNIVERSE, JENNIFER HAWKINS
Former Miss Universe, Jennifer Hawkins and her film crew from Channel 7’s national travel show, The Great Outdoors, enjoyed some time out at Green Island Resort recently. They also visited Great Adventures’ outer reef platform at Norman Reef to experience the amazing Scuba Doo underwater scooter – the only place in Australia to try this very unique underwater adventure..... See large Image |
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GREEN ISLAND FAMILY DAY
Beautiful Tropical North Queensland weather, pirate’s treasure, an entertaining volleyball competition, island fun and whales! It was a day full of fun and adventure on Green Island for the annual Great Adventures Green Island Family Day with around 500 Cairns locals enjoying this great community event .... Read Full Story
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GREEN ISLAND OCEANSWIM
Get out the speedos – the great ‘Aussie swimming cozzie’ because the Great Adventures Green Island Ocean Swim is set to take place again on Sunday 14 October. Last year’s successful inaugural event saw 64 swimmers aged from 12 – 76 years take part in the 1.5 and 3km swims on a glorious October day. There will also be a fun ‘Nippers’ swim for under 12s
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NEW CREW IN THE ZOO ...
While not new to the Zoo, here’s some exciting developments...
Tony Baker has taken to the helm as Managing Director of the Quicksilver Group of Companies following the retirement of long term MD Mike Burgess in mid 2007. Tony was formerly the Group’s General Manager of Corporate Services. He’s also very busy as the Chair of Australian Marine Park Tourism Operators (AMPTO), a board member for the Alliance of Sustainable Tourism and GBRMPA’s Tourism Reef Recreation Advisory Committee.
Adam Maroske, many of you may know as the face of Quicksilver in the UK and Australia, has been appointed as the Group Sales Manager. You may recognise Adam having fun with sales calls in Melbourne!
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POSTCARD: from EMMA:
What a magnificent, impressive boat! Beautifully designed, practical, functional, still looks, feels and smells new! A very clean, quiet, smooth, fast, sleek and unbelievable vessel - just gorgeous. Most importantly stabilisers on the boat for the “weak @ stomach” & bad weather! Excellent equipment, 3 sites, fastest boat from Cairns, 1st site in an hour! …Silverswift is most certainly a 5 star boat from top to toe - the vessel, sites, equipment, food, staff service.. |
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"HOW DO FISH SEE?"
Fish have eyes very similar to a human, but not all have excellent colour vision. Shallow water fish, especially tropical fish, can see a broad spectrum of colours, however deep water fish are usually quite limited. Fish’s eyes are positioned to allow excellent all round viewing, but some have their eyes on top of their heads, as they have a bottom dwelling existence. |
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QUICKSILVER OUTER REEF - Next time you travel to Quicksilver’s Outer Barrier Reef activity platform at Agincourt Reef, be sure to check out the extensive new interpretive materials in the underwater observatory ....Visit Website |
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GREEN ISLAND SELF GUIDED WALK - Great Adventures visitors to Green Island can now explore the island’s unique flora at their own pace with an informative self guided booklet which even includes amazing Indigenous uses of native plants. - View Booklet |
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CHRISTMAS DAY LUNCH - Celebrate Christmas Day Tropical North Queensland style on beautiful Green Island with a delicious buffet lunch at Green Island Resort’s award winning Emeralds Restaurant. ... - More Information |
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GREEN ISLAND DAY CRUISES - Check out Great Adventures new dedicated Green Island website designed to showcase the range of day cruise products and activities available to visitors. Visit - www.green-island.com.au. Mark it in your ‘Favourites’! |
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COMING SOON … A new look Great Adventures web site covering our complete range of Outer Reef and Green Island cruises and activities |
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