Agnes Water

Imagine having both a surf beach and the Southern Great Barrier Reef for scuba diving and snorkelling at your doorstep. Sounds like paradise? Well if you are planning a visit to Agnes Water that is exactly what you can expect!

You can book all your Lady Musgrave Island tours from Agnes Waters and Seventeen Seventy here with a selection of private charter boats for snorkel tours and the option of a larger boat that departs daily with guests to spend the day exploring the lagooons of Lady Musgrave Island.

Located on Queensland’s Discovery Coast, Agnes Water is located around 90 minutes south of Gladstone CBD and just south of its twin coastal town, Seventeen Seventy and 1 hour and 24 minutes drive from Bundaberg.

Known as the ‘birthplace of Queensland,’ it was in Seventeen Seventy that Captain James Cook first set foot on mainland Australia. It is here that Australia’s east surf coast meets the Great Barrier Reef. 

Agnes Water receives around 300 days a year of sunshine and it’s local and relaxed way of life makes it for the perfect holiday getaway.

Top things to do:

• Relax on a deserted beach.
• Surf the perfect waves 
• Sunset kayak tour
• Lady Musgrave Island tour
• Lady Elliot Island tour
• Nature and wildlife tours 
• Island camping tours
• Snorkel or scuba diving the pristine coral cays of Lady Musgrave Island.
• Take a private charter guided tour of Cania Gorge
• Kayak along the 5.5km coastline of Agnes Waters Beach.
• Private charter fishing tours
• Enjoying a drink as you experience some of Queensland’s best sunsets from a seaside eatery.
• A private charter snorkel tour exploring the reef and rivers of Agnes Waters and Seventeen Seventy 

With a range of accommodation options to suit any kind of traveller, from backpacker hostels to 5-star retreats, you will leave Agnes Water and 1770 refreshed, relaxed and rejuvenated.

Contact our Great Barrier Reef holiday specialists for more things to do and things to see in Agnes Water. 

Other great locations to visit on the Great Barrier Reef are Hervey Bay for whale watching, the Whitsundays for sailing holidays and Cairns for scuba diving and snorkelling.