ABC SnorkelCharters

Owner-operators Jay and Astrid Wink have run small-boat reef trips out of Port Douglas for well over a decade. The dive vessel Independence takes twelve; the catamaran Voyager carries twenty-four snorkellers, with a marine biologist guiding in and out of the water. Sites rotate daily by conditions — Agincourt, Opal, Undine, Low Isles among them — and are rested between visits. EcoTourism-certified; reef health is logged trip to trip via Eye on the Reef.