The Whitsundays are a group of more than seventy, mostly uninhabited subtropical islands off the north east coast of Australia.
They are located midway along the length of the Great Barrier Reef, about halfway between Brisbane and Cairns.

This unique group of national park islands are all within a few miles of each other.
The islands contain hundreds of secluded bays and small sandy beaches,
with abundant marine life in the fringing coral reefs and protected waters
of the surrounding Great Barrier Reef Marine Park.

The Whitsunday islands are continental islands formed from drowned volcanic mountains.
They are mostly quite large and mountainous - covered with an interesting variety of vegetation,
including native pine forest, sub tropical rainforest and mangrove estuaries.

All the islands are surrounded by fringing coral reef, with a huge variety of fish, soft and hard corals.

The foreshore of most of the Whitsunday islands is generally rocky - interspersed with small sandy beaches in numerous
protected bays. An exception is Whitehaven, a 3 mile beach on the uninhabited Whitsunday Island (the largest in the group).

Seven of the Whitsunday islands have large commercial resorts built on them,
but Paradise Bay Eco Escape is located in the secluded southern section of the Whitsundays
- a genuine natural wilderness rarely visited by boats or tourists.