Hamilton Island is equally famous for hosting innumerable events within its precincts to lure nature lovers with its exquisite natural beauty. Hamilton Island is the chief among the Whitsunday Islands on account of it being an exclusive tourist destination. It hosts sporting events with equal zeal as it showcases the glittering fashion shows and exclusive parties.
The events are plenty and options are wide for tourists to choose from:
The events are plenty and options are wide for tourists to choose from:
- The island provides ample options to practice and learn activities during your stay.
- A trip to the romantic Great Barrier Reef can be a superbly exhilarating experience.
- The island provides exclusive spa treatments that can be immensely rejuvenating for the body as well for the soul.
- You may enrol for the hilly Half Marathon that is held on the island to test your burst of adrenalin and stamina.
- Participate in the splash with Australia’s largest outrigger event, the Hamilton Island Cup, which is a four-day multi-disciplined outigger paddling regatta and Australia's premier outrigger canoeing event that attracts enthusiastic participants as well as viewers from far and near.
- Get seduced by the culinary pleasure extended by the Great Barrier Feast. This feasting event has been highly successful and comprises haute cuisine weekends. The guests enjoy behind-the-scene experience. World-class ambience combines with the magic of celebrity chefs. Apart from satiating the taste buds you can even learn a few tricks and tips to prepare some mouth-watering dishes.
- Audi Hamilton Island Race Week provides a glorious opportunity to mingle with the celebrities and important personalities. This is a spectacular event famous worldwide in which viewers and yacht sailors from all across the world flock in for this gala Australian largest offshore keelboat regatta.
- An intense atmosphere of camaraderie is created as friends and families mix together enjoying the super event. The racing is split into different categories. Grand Prix class is for top-class racers. An IRC Passage class for modern fast-cruising yachts makes another category. And performance racing and sports boat classes make up the third class. Plus cruising, corporate, bareboat and non-spinnaker divisions are also included. Very recently, Superyatch and SB3 divisions have been added to provide extra lustre.
- Hamilton Island provides the unique tourist attraction of migrating whale spotting as they journey through the warm coastal waters of the Whitsunday Islands during the months of July to September every year.
- Golfing as a major attraction. And Hamilton Island is the only Whitsunday Island to provide only championship island golf course in Australia. The Hamilton Island Golf Club, the new Championship resort, was also opened in August 2009. This Golf Club promotes the 18-hole championship. The layout of the course has been designed by the British Open Champion Peter Thomson and the five times British Open champion and Ross Perret. This Golf Club is set amidst the impressive natural beauty of the surrounding hills and escarpments overlooking the waterways of the Whitsunday Islands. It was opened Anna Bligh and measures 6,715 yards or 6,140 metres.
- The lovers and patrons of art and culture can have their senses filled with the mesmerizing experience of Australian Ballet. The Australian Ballet performs in qualia and offers a treat for the art lovers with an exclusive weekend of ‘pas de deux in paradise.’ It is all performed in the backdrop of the exotic Whitsunday sky, amidst the ultra-luxury of qualia.
- Be enthralled by the excitement of the SB3 World Championships, where you can watch the beautiful modern yachts cruising through the beautiful turquoise waters of the Whitsunday Islands.
