DIVE LOG AUSTRALASIA FEB 2026

HERON ISLAND DIVE FESTIVAL 20 to 27 June 2026 Where is the best diving in the South Pacific? What is your favorite dive? Not so easy to answer! I can tell you that the diving at Heron Island is great. It stands up very well to the best of the best for several reasons. it has loads of big stuff. Turtles, Rays, sharks, big fish and healthy schools of reef fish. It has a superb variety of reef fish such as Butterflyfish, Angelfish, all sorts of Damsels and a basket of plenty, a cornucopia, if you like of nudies and crabs. It has been a fully protected Green Zone marine National Park for many years. The diving here is fantastic. I have done 40 dive trips O/S so I can make the judgement based on experience. Dive facilities are excellent, the dive boats are large, modern well equipped managed by highly trained dive staff. Put simply, Heron Island has got it all and..... June is the very start of Manta Ray season as well as Humpback whale season. The management at Heron Island has put together a package consisting of : Heron Island Dive festival Return boat transfers from Gladstone, Full board including three meals a day. There is an option for half board i.e. Breakfast and dinner. Ten boat dives scuba or free diving. Extra dives can be purchased at $70 each https://www.heronisland.com/experience/Heronislanddivefestival

Expert speakers include: Max Gleeson talking on shipwrecks. Lyndi from Scuba Gym Adaptive Diving Syed Abd Rahman Dive Heart Malaysia. David Mullins on Nudibranchs

Mike Scotland on Sharks. Dive Log Editor onTropical fish at Heron Elliot Peters the state of the Reef Underwater photography seminar by Australia’s top U/W photographers.

HERON ISLAND DIVE FESTIVAL How to book Contact : Kaitlin at events@heronisland .com Phone our Event manager Kaitlin at Heron Island Resort Phone 0749729055 for further information and the itinerary mike@divelog.net.au or Phone / mobile: 0415 158 168

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DIVE LOG Australasia #416 - February ‘26

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