Compass Reef Trip - Whitsunday Islands

Compass Outer Barrier Reef Cruises specialise in giving all our passengers a quality, fun and affordable reef experience. Our environmentally friendly tour offers many of the extras you associate with five star reef tours, at outstanding value for money.

Compass Cruises is a large, spacious, express trip to the Great Barrier Reef's outermost reef locations. Enjoy cruising past Upollo Cay and the famous Michaelmas Cay to Hastings reef, 60km from Cairns. 

Hastings Reef is 10sq km of coral gardens, renowned for tame, friendly reef sharks, Wally the Giant Wrasse and thousands of colourful tropical fish. Passengers can snorkel and try the excitement of Scuba diving on our free 10 minute demonstration. Let our friendly, highly trained instructors and staff show you the underwater world on an introductory dive or certified diving.

The glass bottom boat departs regularly.Our 2nd location, Breaking Patches, is renowned for its forest staghorn coral, large sea fans and black coral trees, yielding some 400 species of coral, and a vertical wall teaming with marine life.