Green Island Day Trip
Spend a full day exploring beautiful Green Island, a 45-minute boat trip from Cairns.
- Departs: Daily from Cairns
- Check-In: Reef Fleet Terminal, 1 Spence Street, Cairns
- Things to do: snorkelling, swimming, kayaking, scuba diving, glass-bottom boat tour
- Suitable for the whole family, including young children.
Plan your day at Green Island
Green Island day trip has several daily departures. Choose the one that suits you best.
White sandy beaches surround the island with an interior of tropical rainforests on Australia’s Great Barrier Reef.
While you are on the island, there are fantastic activities to enjoy
- Snorkelling
- Eco walk in the rainforest
- Sandcastles
- Hire a kayak
- Build sandcastle
- Circumnavigate the island
- Relax on a sunbed
- Glass bottom boat tour
- Scenic helicopter flights
- Parasailing
About Green Island
On the Great Barrier Reef, visitors flock to Green Island, one of the most popular stops. Coral rubble and sand have built up over thousands of years on the calmer side of a platform reef, creating a real coral cay.
Here you will find an abundance of birds and insects in the island’s tropical vine forest. Visitors can see Many different varieties of coral, clams, fish, stingrays, and other reef life found on the nearby coral Reef. Offshore, you may spot green and hawksbill turtles.
The island and Reef belong to the Guru-Gulu Gungandji Aboriginal people’s traditional marine territory.
The Guru-Gulu Gungandji people have a close relationship with the island today. The traditional name for Green Island is Wunyami.
Today visitors can learn about the ancient Culture on a Wunyami walk.
Tourists have visited Green Island for over a century. As a national park in 1937, it became a marine park in 1974, and as a World Heritage Site in 1981, it became part of the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area.
In addition to the national park, Green Island has leases for research, tourism, and management.
Where is Green Island?
Green Island is approximately 45 minutes northeast of Cairns. This National park is home to over 120 native plant species and also 55 species of birdlife. Coral Gardens and an abundance of marine life surround the island.
Or, if you would like to see the outer barrier Reef click here for our favourite Reef tour, Reef Experience.
During the winter months, keep an eye out for migrating humpback whales.
