Lady Elliot Island is located 80kms north-east of Bundaberg and is the closest Great Barrier Reef island to Brisbane, Queensland’s southern capital. Day trippers or overnight guests can access the island by scenic flight from Bundaberg, Hervey Bay/Fraser Coast, Brisbane (Redcliffe) and the Gold Coast.
Use the App to track your flight up the East Coast of Queensland to Lady Elliot Island. With 50 different Points of Interests along the flight you can learn more about the region you are flying over with information on popular locations; theme parks; and places to stay, eat and explore! Available on both the Apple and Google Play Store.
To download the app search ‘Lady Elliot Island’
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We know where we're going but we don't know what we've seen. Is that dark speck on the deep blue ocean land, or the shadow of a cloud passing over the waves?
Within moments we're right above the green bush and gold sand of a tiny, perfectly circular isle. A dozen tourists scrabble for cameras, phones, iPads to snap their first glimpse of the Great Barrier Reef.
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I just returned from a 6 day photography workshop on Lady Elliot Island which is located at the southern tip of the Great Barrier Reef and I have to say I was blown away. It was a truly incredible experience to learn from the amazing photographers and it has really reinvigorated my love of photography. Read more…
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When I saw the name "Lady Elliot Island" on my Queensland 4WD itinerary, I suddenly had the urge to sip tea from a fine porcelain teacup with my little pinkie finger up while reading a Jane Austen novel. What a quaint name for an island!
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The world’s largest reef system offers many fantastic areas for encountering manta, but one of the best has to be Lady Elliot Island. Don’t let this small island with a single eco resort and airstrip deter you; it’s renowned for its snorkeling and scuba diving potential (there’s even a PADI dive center there).
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What comes to mind when someone utters those three quixotic words: “Great Barrier Reef”? Tropical North Queensland, probably. Cairns, Port Douglas, maybe even Townsville. Airlie Beach, Proserpine and the Whitsundays, of course. Oh, and the Oprah-certified Heart Reef. For most people, it ends there – but the reef most certainly doesn’t.
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THERE is only one way to capture the local wildlife in abundance on Lady Elliot Island, and it is through the lens of a camera. The island jewel, forming the most southerly island on the Great Barrier Reef, is the destination for world-renowned photographers at the end of February for Foto Frenzy.
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TOURISM industry leader Peter Gash from Lady Elliot Island Eco Resort has been recognised at the 2014 Queensland Tourism Awards. Mr Gash received the Marie Watson-Blake Award for Outstanding Contribution by an Individual.
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Lady Elliot Island, located in the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park in Australia, is a hotspot for marine megafauna and happens to be home to up to 450 manta rays (Manta alfredi), which are listed as vulnerable to extinction on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.
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Staff at Lady Elliot Island Eco Resort say the first turtle of the season has nested and hopefully laid its first clutch of eggs. Click on the following link to read the complete article was written by Frances Adcock's and published on ABC Online.
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Basking near Australia’s continental shelf, Marie Barbieri loses herself among marine creatures of all colours and contours on Lady Elliot Island. Read the article published on the World Travel Guide website.
