Queensland Discovery

Departs 7:00PM

Australia's metropolitan cultural capital is a city of artisan coffee, street art, and world-class dining concentrated in laneways and along the Yarra River. Melbourne's galleries, fashion precincts, and lively multicultural neighbourhoods sit alongside sporting venues of legendary status — a city that sets its own pace and rarely follows anyone else's.

Days at sea are the perfect opportunity to relax, unwind, and pursue personal interests, whether visiting the gym, the spa, or simply watching for whales from deck. These blue sea days offer an ideal balance to busy days spent exploring ashore.

Newcastle, Australia's second-oldest city, has reinvented itself since the steel mills closed in 1999. The Honeysuckle precinct transformed former industrial wharves into a lively waterfront of hotels, cafes, and restaurants, and the city's six beaches — including the celebrated Nobbys Beach — remain among the finest along Australia's Pacific coast.

Days at sea are the perfect opportunity to relax, unwind, and pursue personal interests, whether visiting the gym, the spa, or simply watching for whales from deck. These blue sea days offer an ideal balance to busy days spent exploring ashore.

Fraser Island is a UNESCO World Heritage Site listed for its diversity and beauty, with over 100 freshwater lakes despite being a sand island, and over 350 recorded bird species qualifying it as an Important Bird Area. The island can be explored by 4WD coach and kayak, and is home to the Butchulla Aboriginal culture. Lake McKenzie is the island's most spectacular lake, and the historic central station offers walks along the rainforest banks of Wanggoolba Creek.

Days at sea are the perfect opportunity to relax, unwind, and pursue personal interests, whether visiting the gym, the spa, or simply watching for whales from deck. These blue sea days offer an ideal balance to busy days spent exploring ashore.

Willis Island, 450 kilometres east of Cairns, is one of the least-visited places on Earth. Accessible only by government permit, it is home to millions of seabirds, turtles, crabs, and eels within the Coral Sea Commonwealth Marine Reserve. Wedge-tailed shearwaters, sooty terns, and common noddies breed here in numbers that create a constant cacophony day and night.

The 74 Whitsunday Islands are accessible from Shute Harbour — a quieter departure point than Airlie Beach, separated from it by Conway National Park. The islands offer Whitehaven Beach's silica sands, reef snorkelling, and sailing among some of the Queensland coast's most beautiful tropical scenery, with the Great Barrier Reef protecting the surrounding waters.

Days at sea are the perfect opportunity to relax, unwind, and pursue personal interests, whether visiting the gym, the spa, or simply watching for whales from deck. These blue sea days offer an ideal balance to busy days spent exploring ashore.

Days at sea are the perfect opportunity to relax, unwind, and pursue personal interests, whether visiting the gym, the spa, or simply watching for whales from deck. These blue sea days offer an ideal balance to busy days spent exploring ashore.

Days at sea are the perfect opportunity to relax, unwind, and pursue personal interests, whether visiting the gym, the spa, or simply watching for whales from deck. These blue sea days offer an ideal balance to busy days spent exploring ashore.

Ship arrives 7:00AM

Sydney Harbour frames the city's defining image: the Opera House's shell vaults and the Harbour Bridge's steel arch framing the skyline from every angle. Beyond the icons, Sydney offers the Bondi-to-Coogee coastal walk, the galleries of the Art Gallery of NSW, and the remarkable Aboriginal heritage of the Blue Mountains within 90 minutes of the city centre.