Well, we booked a 3 day/3 night trip sailing around the Whitsundays, getting off and snorkelling around when ever they anchored up the boat. We met some great people on the boat and had a great time, swimming with turtles, sting-rays, sharks, lots of colourful, beautiful coral and hundreds of amazing fish. We stopped off at the Whithaven Beach on the first day, it has the purest, whitest, finest sand in the world - its 98% silica and was, apparantly, very good to clean your jewellery with as it was so fine. The weather wasn't too hot so we were quite lucky and didn't die of dehydration but we did an hour of the most ridiculously heavy rain while whilst there. We were there in the morning which meant that the tide was coming in,
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