Whitehaven Beach & Hill Inlet Lookout Full-Day Snorkeling Cruise

Great full day tour to see Whitehaven Beach, hike to Hill Inlet and two snorkeling opportunities. As an adult who is a capable swimmer but doesn't swim often, I said on the pre trip waiver that I could swim 50m. This gave me the option of a life jacket. I would thoroughly recommend this as the two snorkeling sessions are about 20-30 minutes each and you can't touch the bottom so it made the sessions easy and relaxing. The food was served to us on board the boat. Our guides Sav and Jade were capable, friendly and helpful. The hike to Hill Inlet isn't too long and has steps to use. Leaving the boat to get to the island requires you to step into ankle deep water, so choose appropriate footwear! This leads straight to the hike and time on Whitehaven Beach. A thoroughly enjoyable day with beautiful views and experiences.

We did this Thundercat tour and loved the Hill inlet lookout and the two snorkel spots at Hook Island. Those spots had perfect visibility and zero waves. After doing some snorkeling off Cairns at the outer reef where we saw giant clams at the Hastings reef and Michaelmas reef we came back to Airlie Beach. This time we did the snorkeling first at the Butterfly reef and the Manta Ray reef and then did the Hill inlet. This time the Manta Ray reef was outstanding and we saw a white tipped reef shark chase after fish. Of course the other fish from giant wrasse to bat fish and all the other fish were outstanding. Great team, excellent selection of snorkeling spots and good food. Highly recommended.

Whitehaven is soo pretty Due to high tide we didn’t see lot of swirls of sand, they appear when tide is 2 m high but it was still very pretty Blue water, white & soft sand, one of the prettiest beach in australia

We had an excellent day out on our tour. Good value for money, was fun, educational and stunning part of the world. The crew were great so a shout out to Randall, Hannah and Trisha. They were very helpful, funny and had a good playlist. There was high tide so Whitehaven beach was a bit disappointing but still was gorgeous and we had a blast snorkelling.

An amazing trip around the Whitsundays with fine on the beach, a stunning view from the lookout and absolutely fantastic snorkelling. Randall and Abbie(?) were brilliant ‘hosts’ and made sure our whole experience was perfect.

Great experience. Variety of activities and friendly knowledgeable crew. Perfect amount of time at each activity and great intro to the whitsundays and barrier reef

An awesome day. Friendly staff. Well organised. Beautiful location. Highly recommend to anyone wanting to experience whitehaven.

Best day out with our family of four kept safe and comfortable by the best crew Sean and Glen ! Bring swimmers, refillable water bottle, sunscreen and a towel. Red Cat adventures provide - a great sense of humour, music ( yes we sang along to all of it ) a beautiful lunch and snacks - fruit sticks and chocolate brownies. Stinger suits and snorkel gear all included. Even though we didn’t see the famous “George”, we spotted a few turtles! Magnificent reef and variety of fish - large and small. The cost is so well worth it. Scenery is beyond gorgeous. Whitehaven beach is spectacular! Then to end the day , the courtesy bus transfer was a blessing ! Great end to close off a perfect day with Donna’s friendliness driving us safely to our resort !

Fantastic tour. Awsome. We are very happy with the team crew Shannon Amber Vicki, who guys very good skill and done a great job during the tour day on Sat 6/12/25. Excellent team work and awsome job .Thank you very much the Red Cat Adventures Company as well. Redcommment someone else. See you next time. Cheers

Such a fun day out. We snorkelled in two spots and then stopped to have lunch, which was cold meat roll, noodles, potato salad and pesto pasta. We then went for a walk up to the Whitehaven Beach lookout and had time to swim in the beach. It was a perfect day and the staff were great.