Rowley Shoals Underwater Adventure (5 Nights)
Dive deep into serene and unearthly beauty as you tour The Rowley Shoals. An intimate experience with one of the world’s greatest coral attols for scuba diving and snorkelling.
Availability - 5 Night Rowley Shoals Underwater Adventure
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*All cruise pricing is per person twin share (pp twin share)
3 Nov 24 to 8 Nov 24
Rowley Shoals
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25 Nov 24 to 30 Nov 24
Rowley Shoals
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05 Nov 25 to 10 Nov 25
Dive / Snorkel - 5 nights
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27 Nov 25 to 02 Dec 25
Dive / Snorkel - 5 nights
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05 Nov 26 to 10 Nov 26
Rowley Shoals
Staterooms available
Panoramic View
$6,334 pp twin share
Horizon View
$5,093 pp twin share
27 Nov 26 to 02 Dec 26
Rowley Shoals
Staterooms available
Panoramic View
$6,334 pp twin share
Horizon View
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03 Dec 26 to 08 Dec 26
Rowley Shoals
Sold Out, Waitlist Only
Panoramic View
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Horizon View
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Sample Itinerary
Please note that this is a sample itinerary only. Our schedule may be affected by tides and weather.
This itinerary is also available in reverse – cruising from Broome to the Mitchell Plateau and then flying back to Broome.
Spaces are limited.
Day 1 – Broome
Your crew will welcome you onboard around 5:00 pm with drinks and canapés, before you settle in for dinner as we cruise towards the Rowley Shoals. You will have the night to familiarise yourself with the boat and your fellow passengers and settle into your cabin.
Day 2 – Clerk Reef
After arriving at Clerk Reef at approximately 8:00 am, Great Escape will navigate the narrow channel to anchor inside the lagoon. Here we will embark on our first dive of the trip, allowing you to familiarise yourself with the equipment and the new environment. The area is abundant with colourful coral, small caves and a multitude of tropical fish species.
The second dive for the day will be a drift dive through the channel to Clerk Reef, after which lunch will be served inside the lagoon. There’s a great opportunity here to enjoy some snorkelling before we head off for an afternoon drift along the edge of the atoll. You can throw a line in to possibly catch a Sailfish or two. Light permitting, we will end the day with another snorkelling expedition before enjoying drinks and an evening meal.
Day 3 – The Western Wall & Tiger Alley
Great Escape will set off to dive the Western Wall, a coral-encrusted wall with a steep drop and a rocky bottom where you can explore cracks and caves dotted with shells and tropical fish. A cooked breakfast will be served back on board as we cruise to the next dive site which is populated with pelagic fish and larger sharks. After an exciting dive in this area, we will have a delicious lunch on the deck.
In the afternoon, we will cruise around to dive ‘Tiger Alley’, where it’s common to see Tuna, Mackerel, Sharks and large Cod. At sunset, there is an excursion to the sandy cay to observe the rare red-tailed tropical birds that nest on Bedwell Island.
Day 4 – The Crevasse, V in the Wall & The Cod Hole
Our first dive of the day will be at ‘The Crevasse’, before sitting down to a cooked breakfast en route to Mermaid Reef. We will then dive at both ‘V in the Wall’ – a large V-shaped bommie jutting out of the reef edge – as well as ‘The Cod Hole’. As the name suggests, three big Potato Cod live here and they like to get up close and personal. The boat will then head in at sunset to anchor up for the evening. At this time we can go skurfing, snorkelling or take off on a night dive to the outer wall. As Mermaid Reef is a National Marine Reserve, there is no fishing permitted here.
Day 5 – The Wall, The Caves & The Net
Today we set off for the most spectacular dive site of the Rowley Shoals, known simply as ‘The Wall’. This is a drift dive through a reef with a sheer vertical wall that plunges down 110 metres. Large sharks can be spotted here, including the rare greater hammerhead. Before lunch we will dive down to ‘The Caves’, a great area for finding sleeping turtles and unusual shells.
The afternoon dive is at ‘The Net’, our most challenging dive site. You will swim through an intricate web of reef, bommies, overhanging caves and cracks. This dive goes as far down as 40 metres, with stunning coral formations and tropical fish species to be found in abundance. The last dive of the trip will be at twilight, before we pack up and cruise back to Broome.
Day 6 – Broome
Arrive back in Broome to disembark at 8am for your transfer back to your accommodation or Broome Airport.
