Daydream Island

Daydream Island is a small resort island in the Molle Group of the Whitsunday Islands, Queensland, located in the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park near Airlie Beach. Formerly West Molle Island, it is occupied almost entirely by Daydream Island Resort and its Living Reef lagoon. Known for its sheltered beaches, fringing coral reefs, and family-friendly resort facilities, it serves as a base for snorkeling, water sports and Great Barrier Reef day trips.

Visitors can expect a compact, developed resort island with sandy beaches, sheltered bays, and landscaped resort grounds surrounding the central Living Reef - a large free-form coral lagoon with reef fish, stingrays and sharks. The island offers resort accommodation, pools, restaurants and bars, snorkeling from the beach, non-motorised water sports, an open-air cinema, and interpretive reef education. Access is by ferry from Airlie Beach, with most facilities concentrated around the resort village.

Originally known as West Molle Island, part of the Molle Group named by Captain James Cook in 1770. Developed for tourism from the 1930s and renamed Daydream Island, it has operated as a resort island since the 1960s with major redevelopments including after Cyclone Debbie in 2017, reopening in 2019 with the Living Reef attraction.

Located within the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park and traditional sea country of the Ngaro people, one of the Traditional Owner groups of the Whitsunday region, with cultural connections to the islands and sea. The island is presented today as an educational reef tourism destination highlighting reef conservation.