Eco Sailing Day Cruise on Darwin Harbour - Eco Certified

Tour Details

Operator

City of Darwin Cruises

Destination

Darwin Harbour

Departs From

Cullen Bay

Tour Description

City of Darwin Cruises provide luxury sunset eco-sailing cruises on Darwin Harbour. We are one of the very few operators that have stable sailing catamarans that do actually sail. Our catamarans provide the perfect platform on Darwin Harbour for a truly relaxing experience with their twin hulls and stable 6.2 m beam.

Enjoy relaxing luxury sailing on Darwin harbour linked to Ecotourism Australia accredited wildlife experiences with 3 sailing catamarans (1) "Ecosafari" a Seawind 1160 having an exclusive max of 12 pax, (2) "Ecocity", a Seawind 1050 luxury sailing catamaran with a max 30 pax and (3) "Cherry Pie" a Crowther Seafire catamaran with a relaxing max of 21 pax.

As a family owned partnership City of Darwin Cruises provides a range of relaxing sailing cruises, from daytime eco-habitat cruises, sunset dinner eco habitat cruises to 2 or more day luxury turtle adventures (min of 2 people max 4 people). Our Eco Sailing cruises provide a relaxing and quiet informative harbour cruise under sail with information about the NT ecology, Harbour shipwrecks, while on the lookout for wildlife, dolphins, dugong, turtles and birds on this 3 hour cruise.

DAYTIME ECOSAILING - Our habitat cruises to a mangrove lined estuary, where we sail quietly so that we can join with wildlife in the estuary home to a rich array of wildlife including crocodiles, marine mammals, birds and fish. Sail on one of our Seawind sailing cats designed for passenger comfort and premier wildlife viewing without motors. The novice sailor is also well catered for and passengers can join in the sailing on our vessels. During daytime cruises we provide a fruit platter and a sausage sizzle. We may even have time on our afternoon cruises for you to swim in our cargo net, seasonal restrictions apply.
Enjoy Darwin harbour with its mangrove lined waterways, home to a rich array of wildlife including crocodiles, marine mammals, native birds and fish.
Darwin Harbour is a tropical estuary, with a maximum tidal range up to eight metres covering approximately 450 square kilometres, including 23 square kilometres of inter-tidal mangrove and saltmarsh communities. Darwin is one of the few cities in the world with a large area of undisturbed mangroves on its doorstep.
Darwin Harbour provides a home for vulnerable dugongs and threatened Irrawaddy River dolphins. Five species of marine turtle have been recorded in the Harbour, including significant populations of flat-back and green turtles. The area also provides habitat for saltwater crocodiles. Three hundred and forty species of fish have been recorded in Darwin Harbour.
This cruise is Tourism accredited and ecocertified.
This cruise departs at 1200.