This week has been absolutely great, despite the weather trying hard to ruin it. I am battered, bruised, have a slashed foot and salt-ruined hair but I have had a ball sailing in the Whitsunday Islands. I have seen turtles, dolphins and dugons close up and I even got the chance to meet Elvis. Its been seriously great. The week started with the very comfortable 10 hour trip between Cairns and Proserpine on the Tilt Train and then a bus to Airlie Beach. The business class style seats on the train reclined and had their own mini entertainment screens that played films, TV series and a wide range of radio stations, plus a live feed from a camera on the front of the train that gave the Drivers view. We passed hour after hour of sugar
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