Fitzroy Island Things to Do Tips by seamandrew

The beaches and surrounding reef of Fitzroy Island offer visitors numerous activities to keep you entertained all day. From the island, you can arrange for SCUBA diving trips, you can go snorkeling, rent windsurfers, catamarans, canoes, you can go out on the glass bottom boat and see the reef in a much drier state, kayak around the island or even jump off a floating trampoline into the clear torquoise water. Whatever your passion is for when visitng a beach, you'll be sure to enjoy yourself here. There is only one drawback and that's the substrate of the beach. It is made up of large pieces of broken coral and not fine sand. As such, I strongly recommend getting some water shoes or the like before heading out to the island. Otherwise, the they are very enjoyable and you won't regret a trip to the island's lovely beaches.

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Directions: It's an island, and a small one at that. You won't have trouble finding the beaches.
Website: http://www.queenslandislands.com/fitzroy_island/island_resort.html

One of Fitzroy Islands greatest attibutes is it's beaches. The first thing you'll notice as you approach Fitzroy Island is another of its great attributes and that is its lush, vibrant, and dense rainforest. With several trails coursing their way through it, the rainforest can be explored by anyone and really adds to the experience of visiting the island. It is full of a good diversity of plant life as well as numerous bird species and other wildlife. The island is not big so exploring it all doesn't take too long (a few hours at most). The beauty of the island is having the rainforest and beaches within steps of each other.

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Directions: The whole island is covered in rainforest.
Website: http://www.queenslandislands.com/fitzroy_island/island_resort.html

Off to the northern tip of Fitzroy Island lies the tiny island of Little Fitzroy Island. Not much is found there except a small beach and a light house. I did not get to see this island close up, let alone go to it. I do believe that the kayak trip around the island includes a stop on Little Fitzroy Island. That alone is worth the price and will be something I do if and when I go back to Fitzroy Island. You can see Little Fitzroy Island picture here on the left of the picture. The water between the two islands is known as the Gap and is one of several dive spots on the island.

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Directions: North side of Fitzroy Island.