Blogs from Whitsundays, Queensland, Australia, Oceania - page 5

Acordamos com o sono reposto e passamos a manha na piscina do hotel de baixo de um sol abrasador. O barco so partia as 16horas e por isso tivemos de fazer tempo ate la. As 16 em ponto partimos da Abel Point Marina juntamente com mais 8 pessoas todos eles britanicos 4 escoceses e 1 casal ingles de Liverpool e outro casal Irlandes de Dublin, tudo da nossa idade. Um skiper e da Nova Zelandia e a outra e da Alemanha. O barco e um grande catamaran com 4 quartos mais 2 pequenos para a tripulacao e ficamos com o da frente do lado direito. Hoje velejamos ate a heyman island e atracamos no mar para jantar um delicioso peito de frango com massa e dormir a nossa primeira noite em alto mar. Amanha comecao as ... read more

Another one of the trips we had left to do was the Whitsundays sailing that we had booked. We arrived in Airlie the day before we sailed off; this was a really lovely little town and we had a fairly nice hostel (Nomads) with its own pool. The next day we left to go and get on our boat- the New Horizon. When we turned up there were also a lot of people there who were sailing on the party boat- the Clipper. When they split us into our boats and we set off we soon realised that the clipper was an entire boat of boys and we were on an entire boat of girls. Lucky for the guys five Swedish girls saw an opportunity and paid $100 to change onto their boat(!) I had seen ... read more

This morning we got picked up from our campsite (Flame trees) at 8.40am for our day tour to the Whitsundays. We went with a company called Ocean Rafting and our boat was called Thunderstruck. We set off on the boat which was designed to be a lifeboat (700 HP!) It was a very fast and bumpy ride, lots of fun! We got to our snorkelling location which was in the outer barrier reef. We snorkelled for approximately 45 mins. It was amazing to see all the coral and the tropical fish swimming beneath us. After that we got back on the boat and went to one of the islands. We went to a look out point called Hill Inlet which was off Tongue Bay. We did a short bush walk up to the lookout point where ... read more

The overnight journey was event less and we arrived at Airlie in the morning, allowing plenty of time to check in the boat, leave our packs at our hostel and grab some alcohol before boarding our catamaran just after lunch. We were introduced to our fellow ten travellers and two crew. We hadn't known what to expect really, whitsundays is on every backpackers list but also on most Australian's to do list, we chose a non party boat, of which there were not many. So we expected a group of older people and only bought alcohol so we had something of a distraction, but we were pleasantly surprised to be amongst our own, all twelve of us were early twenties and either backpacking or working with the one year visa. We hadn't afforded the private room ... read more

Hi, So the last time I checked in, we were just getting ready to head off on our boat trip around the infamous Whitsundays. It is made up of 74 Islands, but we visited 2, as we were there for such a short time! We boarded our ship, the "broomstick" and met our captain Rob, skipper Andy and helpers, Abbie and Caitlin. Some of the Welsh girls were on the trip, so it was nice to catch up with them again. They are so nice. We left around 2pm and headed off to do some snorkling. I was so exhausted, having had limited sleep on the overnight bus, so all i wanted to do was have a bit of a sleep. So while alot of the others braved the ice cold water, I had a cuppa ... read more