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The capital of the Great Barrier
Reef could Cairns be called, as the most dive trips start here.
Cairns itself is a cozy city - you can either go shopping the whole day or enjoy
a cup of coffee in one of the numerous sidewalk cafes and watch the tourists
go by. Gourmets can try out various places as there are restaurants with cuisines
from all over the world.
There are also enough places where you can stay overnight: You can find everything
from low prices backpacker accommodation to luxury 5-star resorts.
Spend some extra time in Cairns to have enough time to explore to beaches north
of Cairns - you can find white sand beaches conterminous to the beautiful green
rain forest - it's quite a miracle of nature. Should you prefer deserted beaches
you can find them for sure here.
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From Cairns you can
make a lot of different dive excursions as for example a three-day liveaboard
with MV Kalinda (Pro Dive)
to the famous Milln and Flynn Reefs, which are offshore Cairns and also belong
to the Great Barrier Reef.
All dives on this trip are easy as there is almost no current around these reefs.
You can expect beautiful coral gardens with some huge coral sculptures - the
corals are so beautiful that it is easy to forget watching the fish swimming
by. You can see stingrays, whitetip reef sharks, napoleon wrasse, turtles, huge
groupers, trumpet fish and barracudas.
On early morning dives you can meet shoals of bumphead parrotfish which are
still snoozing in front of the reef.
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