Susan Casey for Travel + Leisure reports on “why your visit to Australia’s Great Barrier Reef can help save it… and where to stay when visiting this natural wonder.”
The article shines a spotlight on Lizard Island off the coast of Far North Queensland, as well Orpheus Island and Pelorus Private Island further south – three Luxury Lodges of Australia which provide direct access to the Great Barrier Reef.
“To experience the Great Barrier Reef is to become part of it, to take its fate personally. I had told Bay that I had learned this, and she had agreed: “People should come and see the wonder and the beauty. I think knowing it means that you care.” Tread lightly, minimize your footprint—but come. Despite its losses, the Great Barrier Reef still has more living coral than other reefs worldwide. I like to think of it as the ocean’s love letter to Earth. Consider this story a postmark.”
Read the article online.
