Next for us at Seventeen Seventy was a day at Lady Musgrave Island.

The only way you can get there, if you don’t own a tinnie or boat yourself, is to go on one of the cruise boats that go out to the island each day.

There are two main companies that run out to Lady Musgrave Island, these are listed at the bottom of the page.

There will be a few points for you to consider when making a choice on which company to pick to go out to see the Great Barrier Reef.

You won’t realise one of them until you are actually on the boat, as I/we did.

These points are:

If you are staying in Seventeen Seventy, you don’t want to drive to Bundaberg to catch a boat to then come back up to Seventeen Seventy to go out to the island.

Also, reverse that, if you live in the Bundaberg area, you don’t want to drive up to (you still could though) Seventeen Seventy to catch a boat to the island, spend a day out at the island, and then drive home.

Another point in regards to leaving from Bundaberg is the travel time in the boat.

If you read what happened to us below, and you don’t have any sea legs, you will want to minimise the time travelling to Lady Musgrave Island in the boat to cut down on sea sickness.

One of the companies (Lady Musgrave Cruises) also has a pontoon, although it was out of action when we went, it is still a bonus rather than staying on the boat.

Lady Musgrave Cruises at Seventeen Seventy

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We decided to head off for camping at Seventeen Seventy for a long weekend.

It is called both names, Seventeen Seventy as well as 1770 too, just so you know.

The first stages of planning our holiday travel was picking which camping ground to camp at and also what to do in Seventeen Seventy once we got there?

Using my friend Google I/we did the standard search and we settled on four choices of different places to stay.

We had to take in to account it was a long weekend and that there would be a fair amount of people wanting to do the same as us and camp at Seventeen Seventy.

I thought I’d share these with you as well, just incase you need to ring around or check them out before you call them.

Their addresses and contact phone numbers will be at the bottom of the page too for you.

Long story short, we booked one of these camping grounds and then found out one of the kids had qualified for the next level of school cross country.

So we had to cancel booking with one of the above, lost our down payment, and then we rebooked with another that we found out was closer to the beach and also cheaper in the end too.

So it ended up being a better outcome.

Where did we stay camping at Seventeen Seventy?

We settled for Captain Cook Holiday Village for camping at Seventeen Seventy.

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