Blogs from Whitsundays, Queensland, Australia, Oceania - page 8

...and it was incredible! met some more amazing friends, played in the sea, snorkled, sailed, got very wet, alot, raced other boats, goon times, and lots more! we got on the boat on wednesday, from there sailed around the whitsunday islands, there were 21 of us in total and everyone was just so nice and so much fun!! as it got into eveing we all just sat on deck drinking, then up at 6 in the morning to go to a beautiful beach where we did a massive human pyramid and i feel from the the 4th level onto my head!! ouchie!! then we went snorkling which was awesome, saw dolphins! hmm so so so much. we alll got involved with the sailing, and so many times we almost 90' into the water, it felt like ... read more

Beste mensen, bij deze weer een nieuwe blog vanuit Cairns ! Na mijn laatste blog zijn we begonnen aan onze reis vanuit Noosa naar Cairns, We zijn begonnen met een Frasier island tour, dit Is een 3 daagse tour over het eiland met jeeps. Vanuit Noosa hebben we de bus naar Rainbow beach genomen, vanaf hier gaat de ferry naar Frasier. Nadat we aangekomen waren in Rainbow beach hebben we eerst een meeting gehad waarin alles werd uitgelegd over het rijden in het zand , en werden we opgedeeld in groepen van 6 tot 8 personen. Omdat we zelf moesten koken op het eiland zijn we met onze groep naar de winkel gegaan om het eten (en drinken) voor de volgende dagen te kopen, We hadden het simpel opgelost: voor de eerste dag een barbeque en voor ... read more

Hi everyone, we are currently in Cairns waiting to check in to our hostel and very tired after the best weekend ever! If you ever get to go to Oz then we would recommend this and go on the bommerang. We got Airlie Beach on the 22nd and checked in our luggage etc and made our way to the boat for 13:45. By this time we had met an Irish guy called Eddie, who lives in Melbourne and 2 English guys called Matt and Lee, who are at present travelling but may look to move to New Zealand. We all got on to the boat and met the crew - Max, Kane, Jordan and Renee. We were shown a few sailing techniques and off we went. We first of all went to Black Island and done ... read more

We are up at 06:00. I ask Di how she has slept; she says that she has not as she has been worried about the walk to the beach. We have been told that to get to the beach involves a 600-metre walk through the rain forest with the slight possibility of coming across snakes and spiders, of which Di is too fond! (Although she says that she did not sleep I did hear her snoring in the night!) We go for breakfast at 07:00 (breakfast is served from 07:00 until 09:00). As well as the usual cereal, toast fruit and fruit juices, they have a special every morning. This morning it is Vanilla Pancakes with blackberry couli. I try the special – it is great. At 09:00 the vessel makes off to the beach, which ... read more

We are up at around 7:00 and go for breakfast at around 08:00. When we return to our room the luggage has been packed up and moved to reception. We checked out and got a courtesy car to the marina to catch our ferry to the mainland (Shute Harbour) We then got a bus to take us to the Abel point marina to check-in for the sail, but we are sailing with Whitsundays Sailing Adventure, and we find out that we need to check in at the office in the main street of Airlie Beach so we have a 10 min walk back to their office in town. We check in and find out that there are only a total of 8 people on this sailing! It is about lunctime now so we take the opportunity ... read more