Snorkelling – Great Barrier Reef

Snorkelling, Great Barrier Reef is one of the best and most popular ways to truly appreciate the beauty of nature. If you’re not interested in diving, snorkelling is a very accessible and easy way to experience the Great Barrier Reef.

The only requirements for snorkelling at the Great Barrier Reef are an ability to swim, fairly good fitness as it can be a strenuous activity, and the ability to laugh at yourself when you first don the gear. If it’s your very first time you can sometimes feel and look like a fish out of water.

Compass Cruises offers you an excellent opportunity to enjoy snorkelling and The Great Barrier Reef offers you the best location in the world to snorkel. If you’ve never been snorkelling Great Barrier Reef before, let one of our friendly and experienced crew help you learn.

It’s best to learn snorkelling Great Barrier Reef by starting over sand. Sometimes accidental damage to the Great Barrier Reef can be caused inadvertently by the beginner, either by kicking up sediment or disturbing the coral. It is an offence when snorkelling Great Barrier Reef to damage or remove coral.

If you need to rest while snorkelling Great Barrier Reef it is best to use one of the rest stations provided. Do not rest or stand on the coral. If you observe these few basic common sense rules your snorkelling Great Barrier Reef experience will be one you always remember and certainly the highlight of your Reef trip.

When you are snorkelling Great Barrier Reef, you quickly become privy to the underwater world. This is a place where time stands still. Compass Cruises first anchors at Hastings Reef, a well known snorkelling and diving spot. Here there are over 10 square kilometres of coral gardens to explore, as well as the thousands of tropical fish.

Breaking Patches, the second stop on a Compass Cruise is an excellent location for snorkelling Great Barrier Reef. It is renowned for its forest staghorn coral, large sea fans and black coral trees, yielding some 400 species of coral. There is also a vertical wall, which literally teams with marine life.