Lady Elliot Island hosts an important seabird roosting and nesting site and a small resort. The surrounding reef provides good snorkelling and diving. In the past, guano mining and goats severely disturbed this shingle cay. Today, its environment is being re-vegetated.

Lady Musgrave Island is recognised as one of the most beautiful coral cays of the Great Barrier Reef. Its extensive lagoon provides save anchorage and excellent snorkelling and scuba diving sites. A wide variety of corals and animals can be observed.

Fairfax Islands and reef with its double cays has a turbulent past. Its vegetation has been disturbed by guano mining, goats and bombing. Today access to this reef is restricted to protect breeding brown boobies.

Hoskyn Islands
Access to the island above high water mark is prohibited to protect breeding of seabirds. It is another of the rare double cays with dense, low vegetation.

Fitzroy Reef
A beautiful reef with a deep, sheltered lagoon. A wide variety of corals, clear water and shipwrecks make this reef an exceptional diving spot.

Llewellyn Reef
This wide and deep lagoon is an ideal spot for scuba diving and underwater photography. Fishing and collecting are banned.

Heron Island
Probably the best known island of the Great Barrier Reef. It is an important nesting site for black noddies, wedge-tailed shearwaters and turtles. There is also a resort on the island which runs recreational tourist functions and has been a major force in making scuba diving popular and in educating visitors about marine life.

North West Island
The Capricorn regions largest cay with a beautifully developed forest. Nesting location for many seabirds and principal breeding place for Green Turtles from October through February. Good reef for scuba diving and snorkelling, and several wrecks.

North Reef Island
A sparsely vegetated small cay. Hosts an automated lighthouse. Good diving around the cay.

Musthead Island
With 40 ha in size this is the second largest cay of the Capricornia group. Seabird, loggerhead and green turtles nest here and a wide variety of gutters and bommies offer best diving.

Boult Reef
is a very attractive reef with an abundance of sea life. Good fishing and scuba diving.

Tryon Island
Popular scuba diving location. Sandy cay with low growing forest of mainly Pisonia trees. Major seabird and turtle nesting site.

Wilson Island
A oval shaped cay with dense forest patches, stands of Pandanus and open glades. Excellent diving around bommies and shipwrecks.

Wreck Island
The most important nesting site for Loggerhead turtles in Autralasia and the South Pacific. Access is restricted to both island and reef. Anchorage is not permitted within 500m (1500 feet) of the reef edge.

Lamont Reef with its diverse typography provides excellent scuba diving. A drop off at the eastern corner falls to a depth of about 24m (75 feet). A wide range of fish live here.

Erskine Island
This is an important nesting site for Loggerhead turtles.The small island is covered with stunted vegetation. Day visits to the island only.

One Tree Island
This cay has access for scientists only to undertake research. The cay is situated on the windward side and features unusual vegetation and a soak in the centre of the island.

Sykes Reef
In good weather conditions this reef is an excellent diving destination. A coral wall drops down to a depth 30 m or (90 feet).

Polmaise Reef
The south-eastern side of this reef is covered with sea grass. It is a very popular fishing area.

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