Lady Musgrave Island

We spent the day at Lady Musgrave today. Loved the sunshine and snorkelling! Everything was organised and very professional. The team are friendly and helpful, and the meals were really good. First we had the trip over to the island. Then on arrival, we had a tour through the island with a guide talking to us about the animals and plants on the island, and conservation. We walked around the beach, headed back to the ship for lunch. After lunch we went snorkelling and seen fish and turtles! They were swimming right next to me and touched me. It was amazing. After an easy trip back to the marina the day was over. The marina at Bundaberg is easy to locate and plenty of parking. I highly recommend this day out.

Reserved a day trip to this wonderful island May 2022. Amazing Great Barrier Reef experience of a life time. Friendly staff and very knowledgeable. Even booked a scuba diving for non-certified person, and the staff was very professional and made this experience the most memorable one. Kudos to Tracy that took amazing under water pictures. If you are in Brisbane , this is a place and Great Barrier Reef experience you must not miss at all.

Beautiful island with great reefs, a bit disappointed with the fish life as numbers are very low. The trip out to the island can be a challenge for people that suffer from motion sickness and even on a calm sea the motion can be felt. Take motion sickness medication before attempting this two our boat ride to the island. Even when you get sick it totally worth it as the island and surrounding are beautiful and breathtaking. Going out with the Lady Musgrave Experience the staff was great and the food even better. A day of fun and snorkelling ons beatifull reefs all around you. Scuba diving try-outs with well trained instructors and full dives for qualified scuba divers. Equipment is in very good condition and we enyoyed it a lot. One of those bucket list items.

I did a tour to the island last week through Lady Musgrave Experience, it was a great day for it. The guides/staff were friendly and knowledgeable. These are some photos I took of the island tour, the photos don't do this place justice.

Takes about 2hr by boat from Seventeen Seventy to get to Lady Musgrave Island. Lots of places for snorkeling around the reef. We saw Reef Sharks and Turtles in the lagoon. On the island there isn’t much to do other than camp. Would go back in a heartbeat

went with lady musgrave experience. The tour include a 30mins glass boat, a 45 mins island walk and up to 2 hours snorkeling. Super friendly and professional crew. we saw over 5 turtles during our glass-boat tour. As well as on the cruise and island. The nesting season is a great time to visit Bundaberg. Chinese speaking tour guide is available. Snorkeling was a great fun, well maintained equipments and safe guard, everyone could have a go. 😂only issue, we all had a very bad sea sick on our way to the island, coming back was good and less waves.

This small island is a gem! Took a snorkeling tour here in August and loved it. Got to see whales as we first approached the island!! The walking tour across the island wasn’t for me. Tons of birds and tons of opportunities to get pooped on :/ Thankfully it didn’t happen to me!

If you're only considering visiting Lady Musgrave Island, then you're halfway to visiting one of the most beautiful areas on the GBR. Located 70km off the coast, LMI is quite small, taking roughly 30-45 minutes to walk around, dependent on if you're stopping to read about the wildlife, listen to the birds, or clean poop off yourself (which I believe in one of the very few downsides to LMI). There are no predators, sandflies, mosquitoes or anything overly dangerous located on the island, making it an ideal habitat for the wildlife and for campers. Beware of centipedes, campers. If you're camping or only visiting for the day, there are two tour groups available, one that visits from the town of 1770 and the Lady Musgrave Experience group from the town of Bundaberg (yes, the very same location where Bundaberg Rum is made, bottled and shipped). [Off-topic: Word of mouth from those camping on the island tells me that the 1770 group are not very professional, having stranded some campers for five days without water. When they did return on the sixth day, they had not brought any water for the campers]. Which brings me to the second downside of visiting LMI: sea sickness; and by god, if you don't have travelcalm, expect to be sick. The boat ride with the LMExperience group took roughly 2 hours, with around 75% of those travelling (including myself) being sick. You have been warned. Lady Musgrave Island is also a turtle breeding zone, so if you're camping in the summer months, 1 hour prior and in the 2 hours following high tide in the evening, dozens of turtles will make their way up the beach to lay their eggs, which makes for an incredible sight. Lastly, for those hoping to camp on LMI, please be aware that the island is closed between January 26 & Easter, to allow for the baby turtles to hatch unimpeded by humans, who may try to help all baby turtles survive. It is unfortunate that the baby turtles must be left to live or die, but it is apart of the natural order of life. If you're only considering visiting Lady Musgrave Island, rip that bandaid off and get yourself over there. You will not regret it.