Airlie Beach and The Whitsundays

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Spent two nights in Airlie Beach, it's a bit like Byron Bay. Our main aim was a daytrip to the Whitsunday Islands, in particular Whitehaven Beach to see if it looked like the picture Miles bought me one Christmas. It did.

We set out in the early morning on a largish boat to spend the morning
on Whitehaven Beach. After crowding onto the viewing platform to take photos I managed to dramatically throw my sunglasses over the edge and onto the rocks below. Nick gallantly offered to try and rescue them but I'm not sure I could have coped with two losses in one day (or was just an excuse to get away from me for a while, mmmm). We trotted over to the beach in the searing heat. The sand was boiling hot, very white and so fine I'm still finding it in my pants. You may notice I'm wearing a rather attractive full lycra body suit - this is to stop the nasty jelly fish stinging us to death apparently (I never saw one).

On the way back we went for a quick scuba dive ( They are always quick because I seem to consume air at about twice the rate of any other mortal ). We saw lots of coral but not that many fish. We'll try to remedy this on the outer reef later on.

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Photos

The Hill Inlet just past Whitehaven Beach in the top left
The Hill Inlet just past Whitehaven Beach in the top left

Just another day at the seaside
Just another day at the seaside

In the Bath
Sara sits in the warm clear waters, filling her pants with sand (apparently)

Comments

[Miles]

I had no idea...
... that the picture was of somewhere in Australia that you might actually end up going to. I just thought it matched the colours in your room. Which, incidentally, I am about to change to an even more lurid combination prior to moving in (no, of course, still haven't got round to it yet and you've been gone 2 months now). Sounds like the trip is getting better and better which is how it should be. Keep having fun, see you sooner than you'd probably like.