Blogs from Airlie Beach, Queensland, Australia, Oceania - page 2

Hi there! Thanks for reading my first travel blog ever and here's to many more to follow. I have made a new life change to travel far far more and have decided to document and blog about them. So here we are! I arrived in Airlie Beach Queensland yesterday after flying into Proserpine on a fairly short flight from Brisbane (1hr 40 minutes) on Virgin Australia and then took an airport transfer to my accommodation in Cannonvale called Whitsundays Apatrtments . The 2 bedroom apartment is awesome and right on cannonvale beach. There is also a nice pool with a barbecue that i was dying to jump in as its hawwwwt. My friend doesn't arrive for a couple of days so Im delighted i have the place to myself as im in need of some me ... read more

We had to wait an hour in the bar for the Europcar rep to get back from the airport but we got an upgraded car so that was good. The start of our journey south to Brisbane. We drove west to Proserpine then turned south. We saw 2 lots of wild emus grazing in fields. Our next stop was Cape Hillsborough to see kanga on the beach but we just saw 2 wallabies on the grass picnic area ans a few kookaburras and bush turkeys. Continue south to Mackay. Alex uses the phone google to find our motel for the night.... read more

Got up, went for breakfast, waited for the taxi. $66 later we are at Airlie Beach. Our Airbnb is on a hill with great views of the marina and coast. We went for a long walk and booked in for our sailing trip on Friday. The Europcar office is 2 shops down from the sailing shop where we can store our luggage For $5 each. We also get a kit list of stuff to take. Salad for lunch then off to Woollies to shop for tea. We still reckon that it’s expensive here. We both bought new sun hats, just gotta get them home. Went for an evening walk along the broad walk before dinner. Still nice and warm. No pics today as I forgot to put the Syd card back into the camera. Soppy boy! ... read more

On the boat we were up at 7:20am before setting of to our second snorkelling spot of the trip. Again I was so proud of myself for getting in the water - even with the noodle! There were only 6 of us this time - me, Alex, Fabio, Alicia, Louise and Griffin. There were lots of little fish at this one and some lovely coral, but again some of the coral had been damaged by bloody Cyclone Debbie. One bit of coral that looked insane was one that looked like a brain - it made me think about how things are formed and how similar things could be - then I got water in my mask so that brought me right back to reality and to chill, those kind of thoughts are too deep for the ... read more

After a 12 hour bus ride to Arlie beach, the sight of Ali waiting to collect us was a welcome one! We wasted no time and grabbed food before heading out of town to some waterfalls for a swim and a good catch up! Ali showed us around and we ended up having a beer and a game of pool at a local bar! The banter and insults were flying, the sun was shining- what more could you want? Later that evening we were off on our boat tour around the Whitsundays. Our boat was nice and we had our own cabin between the three of us! To say space was tight was an understatement, but it made for good fun! Day 1 we woke up at sea and headed off for white haven beach (the ... read more