Lady Musgrave Experience
Southern Great Barrier Reef Day Tours
Choose Lady Musgrave Experience to experience the jewel of the Southern Great Barrier Reef from the closest accessible departure point and only a 4 hour drive north of Brisbane with Lady Musgrave Experience. Enjoy a luxury transfer to Lady Musgrave Island as part of your day tour aboard the REEF EMPRESS and with the friendly crew. Cruise in style and choose to ride inside in air conditioned, leather seating comfort where documentaries and movies are displayed on large flat screen TVs or enjoy the Queensland sun from the open air foredeck seating or from the spacious upper level sundeck.
Snorkelling
Snorkelling on the great barrier reef is something that will stay with you for a lifetime and is an amazing experience and included as part of our Lady Musgrave Experience Day Tour fully inclusive of premium quality Mares mask, snorkel and Fins.
Scuba Diving
Lady Musgrave Experience offers an amazing and personal scuba diving experience like no other that allows you to get up close with the beautiful colourful corals, unique marine life and enjoy an experience of the diverse underwater world of Australia’s Southern Great Barrier Reef.
Reef Tours
Amazing Day Tours! Experience the Southern Great Barrier Reef in style and enjoy a scenic and comfortable transfer from Bundaberg Port Marina to Lady Musgrave Island aboard the luxury high speed catamaran, REEF EMPRESS.
Lady Musgrave Experience Activities
Snorkelling
Snorkelling on the great barrier reef is something that will stay with you for a lifetime and is an amazing experience and included as part of our Lady Musgrave Experience Day Tour fully inclusive of premium quality Mares mask, snorkel and Fins.
Wetsuits are available by request for the cooler months.
Flotation vests and noodles are also available for those who just wish to float on the surface and let the fish come to them.
Scuba Diving
For the most experienced and adventurous scuba diver to the absolute beginner, Lady Musgrave Experience offers an amazing and personal scuba diving experience like no other that allows you to get up close with the beautiful colourful corals, unique marine life and enjoy an experience of the diverse underwater world of Australia’s Southern Great Barrier Reef.
Turtles
Lady Musgrave Experience offers you the ability to snorkel with Green and Loggerhead turtles all within the protected waters of the reef lagoon all year round.
From October when breeding season begins the waters are full of activity especially with turtles returning to mate and lay eggs on Lady Musgrave Island.
Our in water snorkel guides assist you to experience this adventure of a lifetime.
Whale Watching
Informative commentary and 360 degree viewing decks ensure you get an uninterrupted view of these magnificent animals. Check in and boarding from 0945 for a sharp 1000 departure.
From June-November each year the magnificent Humpback whales migrate to and from Antarctica. Bundaberg provides a whale watching experience like no other as they pass the Fraser coast close to shore through our warm waters to give birth, feed, mate and play.
Glass Bottom Boat
Glass bottom boat tours allow you to have the full reef experience and view the underwater world without getting wet. Sit and relax as our crew take you on a glass bottom boat tour of a lifetime.
Witness the different types and colours of hard and soft Corals, the hundreds of tropical Exotic Fish, Turtles and abundance of local marine life that greet you from the comfort of our fully shaded jet driven Glass Bottom Boat.
Guided Island Walks
Explore the uninhabited Lady Musgrave Island with on one of our very popular guided and informative island walks and learn about the unique and fascinating wildlife, history and natural phenomenons of this coral cay.
Our friendly and professional marine biologists will provide you with an intimate understanding of this beautiful and fragile island paradise. You will be amazed at the diversity and abundance of the ever changing wildlife that call Lady Musgrave Island home.
Bird Watching
Lady Musgrave Island is the southern most island of the Bunker Group of islands and also part of the region known as the Capricorn Bunker Group which contains 73–75 percent of all seabird biomass of the entire Great Barrier Reef.
Lady Musgrave Island is identified as a significant seabird breeding island that provides habitat for thousands of nesting seabirds including the white-capped noddy terns that nest in abundance in the Pisonia trees whilst bridled terns, black-naped terns and silver gulls nest on the ground in more open areas closer to the beach.