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Coral Nurture Program are Official Actors for the United Nations Decade on Ecosystem Restoration!
The Coral Nurture Program are Official Actors for the United Nations Decade on Ecosystem Restoration! The Coral Nurture Program have been a part of the growing global Generation Restoration movement since 2018 and are thrilled to announce they are now an official Actor for the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration 2021-2030. ‘The next 10 years represent an opportunity […]
Why should you visit the Whitsundays during the Wet Season?
Wet Season or the Green Season as we like to call it is a special time of year in the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park. But with a name like Wet Season, it gets a bit of a bad rap! While a bit of rain might put some people off, we have plenty of reasons […]
Reef Protection Initiative
Protecting our patch! The team at Ocean Rafting is proud to be selected to take part in the Tourism Reef Protection Initiative. This initiative allows tourism operators along the breadth of the Great Barrier Reef to conduct in-water Reef Health and Impact Surveys, remove pest species from local reefs, clean marine debris from beaches and […]
Chemicals That Don’t Cost the Earth
At Ocean Rafting we are always looking at ways to improve our business; that’s why we have teamed up with the Airlie Health Hub, who are now providing us with cleaning chemicals that we use both in our office and onboard our vessels. These cleaning chemicals are all-natural, plant-based, toxic, and cruelty-free, biodegradable, eco-responsible, grey […]
The Coral Nurture Program – Whitsundays
Ocean Rafting is excited to have been selected as one of three high-standard tourism operators to be involved in the Whitsundays Coral Nurture Program, a tourism-led coral gardening initiative that will look to assist recovery across reef sites that were heavily affected by Cyclone Debbie. The Coral Nurture Program (www.coralnurtureprogram.org) was established in 2019 as […]
10.07.22 – Mantaray
Winter is here! And so are some of our favourite seasonal visitors! It’s been Manta Madness the last few weeks with almost daily sightings of these gentle giants! The cooler months bring the Reef Mantas to our islands and have provided guests with epic in-water experiences on our Northern Exposure and Southern Lights tour! Here […]