Heart Reef Guides: Swimming, Pontoon, Helicopter, When, Where
Heart Reef guides: swimming and snorkelling, the Hardy Reef pontoon day, the Heart Island helicopter, the best time to go, and where the reef is.
Can You Swim at Heart Reef?
No: Heart Reef is protected and nobody swims at the formation. Where people snorkel on Hardy Reef instead, the stinger season, and how to see the heart.
Read guide →Hardy Reef Pontoon Day
Cruise Whitsundays' 10-hour day to its pontoon at Hardy Reef: snorkelling, the observatory, the price, and why it does not show you Heart Reef.
Read guide →Heart Island Helicopter
The one trip that lands near Heart Reef: a helicopter from Hamilton Island to a pontoon in the Heart Reef lagoon, booked direct, and why scenic flights do not land.
Read guide →Best Time to See Heart Reef
No Heart Reef flight names a closed season. How the cyclone and stinger seasons, the weather rule and start times shape when to fly, and why to book early.
Read guide →Where Is Heart Reef?
Heart Reef is inside Hardy Reef on the outer Great Barrier Reef, 76 km in a straight line from Whitsunday Airport near Airlie Beach. Map and airfields.
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