Luxury holidays in Hamilton Island
Slip on your skipper hat and keep your snorkel handy: on Hamilton Island, life plays out on the Pacific. The yacht club boasts an A-list guestbook, but with the Great Barrier Reef beckoning below the waves, we won’t blame you if you skip the sailing and reach straight for your scuba gear. Dry off on palm-dotted Catseye Beach – or splash across to secluded Whitehaven – then shake the sand from your sandals with an inland hike along tropical-forest-trimmed trails.
When to go
For one week every mid-to-late August, hundreds of yachts (and their crews) coast in for Hamilton Island Race Week. Those in the know go for September, when warm spring weather meets off-peak peacefulness, or in the summer months, when humpback whales come a-calling.