On behlaf of Peter Gash and the Lady Elliot Island Eco Resort team, we would like to wish you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! Thank you for your support during 2016! We hope you have a magical break over the Christmas Period and we look forward to celebrating Christmas Day with everyone on the Island. We hope to see you on our Island paradise in the New Year.

Lady Elliot Island Eco Resort has been working on an exciting and innovative new project which has been designed to boost our guests in-flight experience.

We are very happy to release our In-Flight App which has been developed for Apple and Android users. The ‘Lady Elliot Island’ App has two main features, the ‘Flight Tracker’ and ‘Island Map’.

The Flight Tracker uses GPS to track and show your exact location whilst flying up the East Queensland coast of Australia to Lady Elliot Island. With over 50 Points of Interests along the flight, guests can learn more about the region they are flying over with information on popular locations; theme parks; and places to stay, eat and explore!

As flights to Lady Elliot Island depart from several different locations (Gold Coast, Brisbane, Hervey Bay, Bundaberg and Agnes Water/1770) our goal is to promote each region and help our guests get the best experience out of their stay in Queensland.

You can use the App to plan your stay on Lady Elliot Island with weather, tides and island maps available.

The App is available in five languages-English, Chinese, Japanese, German and French.

To download the In-Flight App, search ‘Lady Elliot Island’ on the Apple App Store or the Google Play Store for Android.

We are very excited to announce that we had our first turtle nest of the season on Lady Elliot Island on the 13th November.  A female Green Turtle came up to nest and stayed ashore until morning, giving our guests an amazing opportunity to see her in the daylight.

Our Activities Team were fortunate enough to have Jim Buck, our Turtle expert on the Island at the time and were able to tag the female turtle before she returned to the water.

Based on the incubation period of approximately 8 weeks, we are hoping to welcome in the New Year with a batch of turtle hatchlings!

After this first turtle paved the way we have had 474 counted turtle tracks and 31 confirmed nests recorded in the last 5 weeks.  

Photographs by Lauren Hughes in Activities

Bird nesting season is in full swing this year with chicks hatching all around the resort. This is a picture of a Bridled Tern Chick that hatched right out front of Reception. 

Keep your eyes out for these adorable fluff balls whilst you are walking around the Island, they never stray too far from their mothers!

Photo by Jodi Carlton in Reception

Lady Elliot Island Eco Resort’s Managing Director, Peter Gash recently attended the 2016 Premiers Awards for Sustinability where he received a Highly Commended in the ‘Minister’s Award for Leadership in Sustainability'. With over 26 entrants Peter was extremely humbled to receive recgonition in the top 6!

Congratulations to each and every business and individual for their dedication and innovation to eco and sustainable practices. The passion and drive in the room to make change was inspiring and we will contiue to ensure we take the right steps forward for the future of our planet.

In late November Lady Elliot Island Eco Resort won the 'Commitment to Conservation' award at the 2016 Steve Irwin Gala Dinner!

To top the night off, Peter Gash won the top Raffle Prize, a brand new Sci-Fleet Toyota RAV4!

Peter generously donated the RAV4 back to the Wildlife Warriors for all the great work they do in Australia and around the world to protect and conserve threatened and endangered wildlife. 

Thank you to the Irwin Family for a wonderful evening!

Lady Elliot Island Eco Resort once again attended the Queensland Tourism Awards which are held each year. Lady Elliot entered into two catagories, The Steve Irwin Awards for Eco Tourism and Unique Accommodation.

Unfortunatly Lady Elliot did not place in the awards but a big congratulations must go to all the winners from the evening. “In our eyes each and everyone of us are winners! We are very proud to be part of this great tourism industry in this amazing state and contributing to the prosperity of the best country in the world, Australia” – Peter Gash, Managing Director.

Make the reef your backyard with our 3 night ‘Room to Reef’ Package

From $782.50 per person (twin/triple/quad share). Stay between May – August 2017. The package includes: 3 nights accommodation in an Eco Cabin (shared facilities), return scenic flight ex Hervey Bay or Bundaberg; full buffet breakfast and dinner daily; 1 glass bottom boat/guided snorkelling tour per person; snorkelling lesson (if required); snorkel equipment (mask, snorkel and fins); 1 short wetsuit and a range of island activities and tours.

ON SALE FROM 21 NOVEMBER - 28 FEBRUARY 2017 ONLY

Dive the Southern Great Barrier Reef with our Stay 5 Pay 4 ‘Manta Migration’ Package

Travel between May – August 2017 from $940 per person (twin/triple/quad share). The package includes: 5 nights accommodation in an Eco Cabin (shared facilities); return scenic flight ex Hervey Bay or Bundaberg; full buffet breakfast and dinner daily; 1 glass bottom boat/guided snorkelling tour per person; snorkelling lesson (if required); snorkel equipment (mask, snorkel and fins); 1 short wetsuit and a range of island activities and tours.

ON SALE FROM 21 NOVEMBER - 28 FEBRUARY 2017 ONLY

Below is a collaboration of images from our Instagram account. Thank you for sharing these amazing images! Don’t forget to keep posting your favourite snaps and #LadyElliotIsland, we all enjoy seeing them.

If you are happy for us to use any of your images for marketing purposes, please email them to [email protected].

Book early to avoid disappointment! The Resort has been extremely busy this year, with an average occupancy of 90%! We have limited availability over the next 3 months so if you are thinking of visiting Lady Elliot Island, please book as early as you can.

New Packages:

Turtle Escape – Two Nights

Stay 5 Pay 4  – One Free Night

Stay 7 Pay 5 - Two Free Nights 

Reef & Rainforest - 4 Nights 

Lady Elliot Island & Fraser Island - 4 Nights