What is a Great Barrier Reef day trip with Zoom Helicopters like? — featuring Juzzy and Grunta (Zoom Helicopters)

0:01 All right, yeah. Very good morning. Saturday morning. Um we're looking at a 28° day today. And we're doing a Sunlover Reef Cruise. This one here, Zoom Helicopters. You get them here. So, Zoom Helicopters, these guys.

0:26 >> And >> We're going to So, it's a helicopter to Moore Reef. >> Reef. >> And then from there we get a cruise to Fitzroy Island. Where we will have our smorgasbord lunch. And then um snorkeling for a couple of hours there as well. And 2 hours snorkeling on the reef. >> Yeah, about 2 hours on the reef and

0:48 about an hour and a half after we have lunch at um Fitzroy Island. But apparently there's um turtles up in the reef up there. So, we're going to see if we can spot some turtles. >> Cool. Can't wait. Let's go. >> All right, you got our last couple of checks. We'll just let you go through

1:09 now and we'll be on our way. All right, let's keep going. All right, you guys. That's our seaplane out of the Cairns International Airport. You can see that's the inside of the Down on your right-hand side you can see

1:34 the Cairns city in the distance there. And straight out in front of us Coral Sea. And of course that's the Great Barrier Reef. Right out in the sea markets in the deep blue sea. noise? We're actually going into the wild season for the next couple

1:59 of weeks. There'll be the migrating humpbacks coming down south. I haven't actually seen any yet. But very interesting to spot my way. That's all. Otherwise, uh stingrays are really obvious. Manta rays are probably the most obvious thing to But manta rays are

2:24 typically only They are quite common. You don't see them all the time, but they are quite common as well. Uh they can get up to about 6 m wide. But once they're spotted, they're pretty easy to spot as well. Sharks are probably the most difficult just because they're seen in the uh

2:40 deeper water on the top. Dolphins are quite similar, but turtles Yeah, they're easy to spot because they're very, very very small. They're perfectly good people. All right, now we're heading in front of the sea just past the Arab Peninsula. You've got Fitzroy Island. And Fitzroy Island there is actually one

3:06 of the one of the about six groups. We got about three groups there. Very popular uh holiday choice for tourism. That's the first reef from here out. Because that height of water following this here Yeah, water starts to change from about 40 m deep where we are right now to about

3:32 210 m deep. Most of that turquoise color is coming from the sand. Straight in front of you, you've got a keyhole. You'll find out that it's a small structure that's out in the water there. That is the mooring culture. All right, here we are at 40.

4:00 All right, all right, all right. All right, so on your right hand side, we have this We have 0 right there, you

4:27 really As far as conditions viewing the coral garden, this is about as good as it gets. Bright blue sky, low wind, sort of mid tide, and excellent visibility. All right. And there's pink coral.

4:59 All right, here we have 40 m across the ditch. You've got another one called the green. It's 47. And then on the left, we've got pink and green, and so on and so forth. Basically like that for about 1,000 km this way, and another 1,000 km that way. And it's sunny enough here. And that's it.

5:24 Yeah, I've got the sun behind us. This is uh >> [clears throat] >> That's good. All righty, so from here, we're going to

5:50 make our way back to the pontoon. We're going to do one more fly by and get you guys down on the heli deck. The boat should be out there waiting for us, so uh it shouldn't be too much longer. All righty, guys. As we come in to land here, just a quick reminder, once we get our skids onto the platform,

6:13 please just remember there is no rush. You don't need to be anywhere instantly. Just stay in your seats. I'll let you guys know when to take your seat belts off and then you can take So, just chill. The reef crew will come and get you guys and they will boat. But, once they get out to us, they'll

6:34 come out to your door, they'll open your door, and from there all you need to do is simply walk forward to that little silver box at the where the guys are at the other end of the pontoon and just stand by. I'll direct you guys from there. Cool. That's everything, you guys. Thank

6:52 you very much for coming and I hope you enjoyed it. All righty, guys. That's us. All righty, so you guys can take your seat belts off and hang up your headsets whenever you're ready. We still need to wait for the boat to get out to us. Again, just stay in your seats until Zoe has come and collect you guys.

7:29 >> Yeah, awesome. Thanks for flying us. >> Hi, everybody. That's the helicopter we were flying on. Thank you. Uh

7:57 >> Yeah, it's awesome. So I get down this end and I've got all the scuba. The scuba gear. We're going to have a look.

8:35 >> [laughter] >> So we're up the top here on the top deck. All right, we're going to slide off the

9:01 Great Barrier Reef into the Great Barrier Reef. All right, Great Barrier Reef, here we are. We're going to fish here right here.

10:20 >> Welcome to the fish feeding, guys. There's about 1,600 types of fish on the Great Barrier Reef, guys. So, we're going to see a few of them right now. You can see lots of fish with yellow tails. Guess what they're called? >> Yellowtail something. >> Yellowtail fusiliers. So, you can just

10:39 call them yellowtails if you want. Oh, there's there's a king Kardashian fish there, guys. The titan triggerfish. [laughter] It's proper name. Or the big jack fish, some people call it. It's got big big lips, big goggly eyes, sharp teeth. >> All righty-oh, we're leaving the Sunlover Sunlover Reef pontoon

11:01 heading to Fitzroy Island. So, after lunch, we should go snorkeling all along there. All righty-oh, just stepping foot on Fitzroy Island. 3:15 we've got to be back, so we're going to go and have something to eat in the resort

11:27 here. So, here we are. Fitzroy Island. Cafe lunch. Check the view out. Righty-oh, that's lunch done and dusted. I don't know about you, Jess, but I'm as full as a fat lady's undies. >> Chucking.

11:53 Fear so much. >> Righty-oh, Fitzroy Island. We're going to go do a bit of snorkeling. We're told there's turtles everywhere up here. Once we get a bit deeper, we'll be able to play. Well, I don't know. Had too much to eat, so I feel like I'm going to sink.

13:03 >> Well, this is it. It's about time we've got to get back on the boat now. I head back to Cairns. It's been a great day. >> What a day. >> What a day. Fantastic. I'll always remember today. >> Righty-oh, Jessi, how was your day? did you think?

13:28 >> I am tired. It was a great day. So much fun. Packed full of adventure. Good lunch. Lunch was good. >> Sunlover Reef Cruises. >> Thumbs up. >> Hold on. Bye guys. See you. Thank you. >> See you later.