Cairns jet boat tours: High speed thrills on Trinity Inlet

The Bad Fishy Cairns jet boat tours offer high speed stunts and tricks, while seeing the mangroves and rainforest around Trinity Inlet.

In Cairns, Queensland, boat trips are usually relatively sedate affairs. Cairns dinner cruises, Great Barrier Reef day tours and snorkelling trips to Green Island are usually pleasant rather than thrilling.

But the Bad Fishy jet boat tour offers something rather different.

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From the air: Outer Reef helicopter flight | Sunrise hot air balloon ride | Skyrail Rainforest Cableway.
At night: Sunset dinner cruise | Pub and club tour | Aquarium by Twilight experience.
For wildlife: Birdworld Kuranda | Kuranda Koala Gardens | Cairns Zoom and Wildlife Dome | Cairns Aquarium | Rainforestation Nature Park
For culture: Cairns Museum tickets | Street art walking tour | City and surrounds highlights bus tour.
For thrills: AJ Hackett giant jungle swing | High speed jet boat tour | Barron Gorge white water rafting | Mulgrave River tubing.

Cairns jet boat tour speed

These Cairns jet boat tours depart from the Marlin Marina on the Cairns Waterfront. The experience starts with a safety briefing, and everyone is given a life jacket.

Once the admin is taken care of, the Bad Fishy jet boat speed out towards Cairns Harbour and Trinity Inlet. The jet boat’s powerful engines can reach spins of up to 45 knots.

It’s not just about sheer speed, though – this Cairns jet boat is pretty manoeuvrable too. This means the drivers can pull off all manner of stunts and tricks, including power slides, fish tails and 360 degree spins.

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Kuranda combo package – take the Kuranda Scenic Railway up and the Skyrail cable car down.
Green Island tours with beach time, glass bottom boat and snorkelling. (Or pick a Fitzroy Island trip instead).
Moore Reef day tour – with underwater observatory, snorkelling gear, glass bottom boat & semi-submersible cruises.
Great Barrier Reef snorkelling cruise – with snorkelling stops at two excellent spots on the Reef.
Cape Tribulation rainforest day tour – with Mossman Gorge Aboriginal cultural experience and Daintree River crocodile-watching cruise.
Atherton Tableland waterfalls and rainforest tour – including wildlife-spotting and a swim in a volcanic lake.
Outback 4WD tour – visiting Chillagoe Caves, Aboriginal rock art and Granite Gorge.

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Exploring Trinity Inlet on a jet boat

The jet boat ride isn’t all about getting splashed and feeling the wind in your hair, though. In between the stunts, there’s commentary about Cairns’ history and local environment. While in the Trinity Inlet, you can see the mangrove system with the rainforest-covered mountains rising steeply behind.