Australia, including the Great Barrier Reef, is one of our top choices for our next charter. With incredible diving and cool "down under" culture, why wouldn't it be?

While searching for charter options in Australia, I ran across a company featuring the most interesting charter company name yet: "Magnetic Palms Rent-A-Yacht".

Magnetic Palms? Fascinating! At first, I expected to see a bunch of palm trees with metal objects sticking to them! (only joking).

Seriously, after reading about the area, it sounds pretty interesting. Not quite the Barrier Reef, the Magnetic Island and Palm Island cruising areas offer relatively low-key sailing without the volume of boats in other areas. For more info, check out their video - it's pretty informative and well-produced. (note: if in North America, it may load slowly... net latency between AUS and NA can be frustrating)

Cool fact: the area includes 340 reef species (only 10 fewer species than the Great Barrier Reef). Amazing...

Tags: sailing, australia, great barrier reef, yacht charter, bareboat charter