Blogs from Whitsundays, Queensland, Australia, Oceania - page 10

We took our last overnight bus from Hervey Bay to Airlie Beach, where we would get our boat to sail the Whitsundays. It was a 13 hour bus and really did feel like forever! The weather was really nice when we reached Airlie Beach. Surprisingly, there isn't actually a beach at Airlie, its more of a harbour. But they do have a manmade lagoon so we spent some time there while we waited to check in. The hostel was ok, pretty average, but it had a good bar that was went to every night we were there. We had two nights here before catching our boat called "Powerplay". We had been told by Ozintro that this was the best boat to get, so we were really excited about it. The first night, we went into the ... read more

The girls and I woke up pretty early, which is pretty good seeing that breakfast was served at 7. I found out I slept through the anchor being put in the water late at night, which apparently was ridiculously loud. Yup, lets add that to the list of just about everything I can sleep through. I went out onto the deck and saw a gorgeous sunrise and an even more beautiful beach behind me. There were a bunch of people preparing for a dive, but it turned out to be an introductory dive for the students. I chatted with the crew a bit, even making a few friends and earning myself the nick-name “Buffy - the dolphin slayer”, “dolphi” and “dolphin girl”. By the time I left I think maybe ½ the crew knew my real ... read more

Nämä kuvat ovat Summertimen miehistön ottamia.... read more

Stingrays, Dugongs and stunning beaches So next morning after surviving the night when I could have drowned us all, we woke to a bit of a cloudy morning, which wasn’t disappointing as Nath and I had come to accept that the sun didn’t follow us anywhere. But what made it brighter was the smell of cooked breakfast awaiting us. Brain cooked so much food every time that if we hadn’t had Dan the living garbage can, we’d have been throwing food over the edge of the boat (which we still did with leftovers anyway on captain Brains orders). There were loads of other boats now moored at Whitehaven and apparently more would be arriving so I was glad we were planning to move on today. Brain was waiting to hear form his friend who was out ... read more

G'Day my lovely blog reader, We have had some fun times since Sydney...I shall fill you all in! After we wrote the last blog we went on a night out, it was our 'leaving do' according to our mates who are working in Sydney even though we had only been there for a week. We went out in King's Cross which is Sydney's Red Light District, quite funny wandering along the street next to some on the worst looking prostitutes EVER! Had a good night in a club (don't worry there are some really nice places there too)! Said farewell to the parents the next morning to get our flight to Byron Bay as it was the same price as flying and so much quicker. Was possibly the funniest flight ever, the plane was tiny and ... read more