http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Queensland/Airlie-Beach/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Oceania , Australia , Queensland , Airlie Beach en-us Wed, 30 Dec 2009 06:32:08 +0000 Wed, 30 Dec 2009 06:32:08 +0000 some pictures of birds and animals we have taken. Put on the blog by special request from Ewan. http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Queensland/Airlie-Beach/blog-461778.html We are now at Bowen a very nice seaside town just on the mainland from the Whitsunday islands. We are travelling down to airlie beach tomorrow for Christmas. We have booked to go over to the Whitsundays for 23rd. We hope to visit 3 islands and do a spot of snorkelling.Our trip to Dunk island when we were staying at Mission beach was great only 4 of us on the boat and probably only a few more on t http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Queensland/Airlie-Beach/blog-461775.html Zur unchristlichen Zeit hat uns wieder der Busfahrer mit weihnachtlicher Musik an das anstehende Fest erinnert das uns aufgrund der Temperaturen irgendwie unwirklich erscheint. Einmal mehr fragten wir uns an diesem Morgen bdquoWelchen Wochentag haben wir eigentlichldquo Diese Frage ist wohl einer der besten Indikatoren fr Erholung im UrlaubDurch die 3stndige Fahrt zum Great Barrier Reef http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Queensland/Airlie-Beach/blog-461293.html Bereits am frhen morgen ging es mit dem Shuttlebus in Richtung Hafenanlage aber sptestens nach der Christmasparty whrend Fahrt waren wir fit genug fr den Trip auf der bdquoCamiraldquo. Mit dem auffallend lilafarbenen Katamaran segelten wir um die Whitsunday Islands. Wir hatten unser Lieblingspltzchen auf dem Boot schnell ausgemacht vorne im Netz liegend wehte uns bei strahlendem Sonne http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Queensland/Airlie-Beach/blog-461292.html Today I left with a rush to the Sunferries Terminal for the Greyhound bus. Fran had forgotten about me And something came in between she said. So I have been waiting for 15 hours on a bench in the shade which was still warm. I wasn't really awake at the time either felt a bit weak. Luckily I was completely packed so I could get in Fran's car immediately otherwise I'd had to take a cab or walk http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Queensland/Airlie-Beach/blog-461128.html hey from airlie beach we got back from a whitsundays cruise for 3 days yesterday and today we are heading of to Cairns and hopefully on to cape tribulation. we did the cruise on a catermerange pls excuse the spelling called the Pride of Airlie. it was a large boat with about 40 people on it and really friendly crew. the first day we went sailing at 3 and went straight to South Molle Island st http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Queensland/Airlie-Beach/blog-459443.html im in airlie beach at the moment about to go on a whitsunday cruise later on to day. this has een the first chance to get on the internet for alomost a week. After leaving brisbane for a short greyhound trip to hervey bay pronounced harvey bay by the aussies even tho its clearly hervey we checked into a hostel called Koalas that we were also doing to fraser tour with. we weree really cautuous http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Queensland/Airlie-Beach/blog-458668.html The scenery as we have been driving south has blown us away. As we head out of Townsville we are flanked on either side of the road with row after row of banana trees and what looks like sugar cane fields. Every so often we happen across roadside stalls selling the freshest and juiciest fruit imaginable and it would be rude not to try some wouldnrsquot it As we arrive at Airlie Beach we are bot http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Queensland/Airlie-Beach/blog-447881.html From Townsville it was a fairly short drive down to Airlie Beach so we arrived with plenty of time to pitch the tent and explore. We chose a central campsite a strange place which felt like it was a popular site with tourists back in the early seventies but had since been a bit neglected. Airlie itself was a lively strip of cafes and bars mixed in with travel agents and tourist shops and finishe http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Queensland/Airlie-Beach/blog-447162.html Staying in the Whitsundays http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Queensland/Airlie-Beach/blog-446606.html So we are now in airlie beach which is somewhere between brisbane and cairns. We checked into our hostel and cooked up a steak for our first night had a few drinks and watched the simpson movie Had a little wonder round the next day to see what there is to do round here and theres nothing Theres a nice lagoon instead of a beach so we chilled out there for the day.Day after we were off on a boa http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Queensland/Airlie-Beach/blog-444616.html Da var springbreak i gang. sitter naa paa en internettkafee paa beaches hostell. resten av gruppa er aa spiser frukost men morrafugl som jeg er sto jeg tidlig nok opp til aa rekke frukost. vi har hatt en helt fantastisk uke. turen startet i fra Brisbane derifra skulle vi kjore til Hervey Bay. Derifra leide vi 4x4 og dro over til Fraser island som vi var i 3 dager. Da vi kom tilbake til Harvey B http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Queensland/Airlie-Beach/blog-441607.html It was a 4 hour drive from cape Hillsborough to Airlie and we had heard some not so great things about the place. When we arrived we found the closest caravan park to the city and secured ourself an overpriced pitch right by the main road joy Of all the parks we have stayed in Airlie was the most expensive and the worst facilities but it has the draw of the Whitsunday so it gets away with it http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Queensland/Airlie-Beach/blog-440069.html We have been staying at the Big 4 Whitsunday Park at Cannonvale just out of Airlie Beach. We like staying here because it's out of the busyness but handy to shops and transport and Airlie Beach is the jumping off place to cruise around some of the 74 Whitsunday Islands. Yesterday we picked up a bus at 7am and were taken to Shute Harbour to catch our boat. This firstly took us to Hamilton Island http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Queensland/Airlie-Beach/blog-437772.html Der heutige Morgen war ein sehr trauriger Morgen an dem viele Ameise ihr Leben lassen mussten. Anscheinend hatten wir unseren Campervan in einem Ameisennest geparkt. So verbrachten wir den gesamten Vormittag damit Willy von den Ameisen zu befreien.Anschlieend machten wir uns auf den Weg nach Airlie Beach. Airlie Beach ist eine kleine Stadt in der Whitsunday Region Queenslands und ein sehr belieb http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Queensland/Airlie-Beach/blog-436374.html Day 12 Wed Sep 2Knuckle ReefI feel an obligation to warn other travelers. If someone offers you a tday rip to Knuckle reef in the Whitsundays run like hell in the other direction. Out of practice in relying on my intuition I had let the lady at Peter Pans talk me out of a sailboat snorkeling trip where someone had told me if you don't see at least 200 fish you don't have your eyes open. In e http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Queensland/Airlie-Beach/blog-433686.html Day 9 Mon Aug 31Airlie BeachI arrived at Airlie Beach Airlie rhymes with Hayley for some reason Australians must not believe in the letter R LOL at 11 am. Whisked up a hill to my hostel where I was shown to my dorm room which smelled distinctly of urine. Gross. I got rearranged to another dorm. The place was ok. I wasn't too thrilled with it. I could tell it was a party pad. So i wander http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Queensland/Airlie-Beach/blog-433684.html July 7 9We decided to treat ourselves to an adventure outside of the caravan and took to the high seas on a tall ship cruise in the Whitsundays. The ship is called the Derwent Hunter and it had a somewhat chequered history as a drug and weapons transport vessel before it was bought by the current owner and shown that crime doesn't pay tourism does. I'm not really a renowned sea farer but lucki http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Queensland/Airlie-Beach/blog-433442.html Finally made it to Oz Flew from Singapore to Cairns via Darwin. Long trip but we made it Spent a few days in Cairns. Nice place. Didn't get to go diving on the Barrier Reef as it was expensive so am going to wait until i have a job in Melbourne and then get internal flight back up to Ciarns in a few months and do it then In Airlie Beach now and heading to the Whitsunday islands tomorrow for the http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Queensland/Airlie-Beach/blog-432306.html I just dont think I have the words to describe this last week Thank god we had a camera this time Have a look at the pics athttpwww.facebook.comphoto.phppid621456la413380019id1018040559and beery ones athttpwww.facebook.comphoto.phppid621550l79cdcee347id1018040559Just want to say thanks to Alex buddy Dawn Scotty Rach and Kat some great new friends that shared a few o http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Queensland/Airlie-Beach/blog-430407.html