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Whitsunday Whale Heritage Area
The annual Humpback Whale migration is well underway along the East Coast of Australia! These gentle giants undertake a massive 5000km migration from the cooler waters of Antarctica, to the warmer birthing grounds of the Great Barrier Reef. By the end of 2023, the Whitsundays will become the world’s first Whale Heritage Area within a […]
Coralpalooza
Coralpalooza 2023 On June 10 for World Oceans Day, we got our dive tanks and tools ready to participate in the first-ever international day of collaborative action, Coralpalooza 2023. Ocean Rafting teamed up with the crew from other high-standard tourism operators, to restore high-priority sites around our Whitsunday Islands. In Australia, tourism operators ranging from […]
Coral Nurture Program
Ocean Rafting is proud to partner with the Coral Nurture Program, Reef Catchments and the Great Barrier Reef Foundation. This week Ocean Rafting and fellow tourism operators and researchers give our fringing Reef a hand! Our team set out to stock our nurseries with corals of opportunity this week, which are coral fragments that have […]
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 […]
