Blogs from Airlie Beach, Queensland, Australia, Oceania - page 65

Well i dont really mean happy easter. Public holidays when you are travelling throws a real spanner in the works!! How dare locals book trips when us foreigners have sceduled to do the same!!!! Am just annoyed as we didnt realise was easter ( we dont even remeber what day it is and if its a week day let alone bank holidays!!!) and turned up to book a sailing trip on easter friday and didnt understand why everything was fully booked!!! Oh well would have been rubbish at sailing anyway. So we flew from bush into rainforest. Such a change in scenery. We stayed in Cairns for 5 days and used it as a base to visit the rainforests, tablelands and great barrier reef. All so beautiful however it is now wet sesson and it wont ... read more

Got back to Airlie Beach yesterday after three days on our "sailing" trip - I put sailing in inverted brackets as we did absolutely no sailing whatsoever which was very misleading!! However we still had an excellent time and I guess that is all that matters. Had a meeting on the first day where we were told there were 80 of us and only 2 boats! And there was us thinking it would only be about 20 of us sailing the seas! Got onto our boats and made our way to South Mole Island where we'd be staying for the next 2 nights. We could use all the sports facilities there so me and Patrice played a game of tennis (we're nearly as bad as that as we are at pool!) then headed for the buffet ... read more

Ja det er meg det, mitt nye navn: Norwegie. Eller noen ganger bare wegie;P Er i Airlie Beach at the moment, bor i leilighet sammen med Tom, Jay og Whitney og har det supert. Begynner virkelig aa faa sansen for Airlie Beach naa, saa laidback men samtidig kan det vaere skikkelig kult her ogsaa! Har vaert her en stund naa tilsammen, sikkert godt over to uker, kanskje tre. Har ikke gjort saa utrolig mye siden jeg kom hit igjen egentlig. Tom har faatt besoek av en kompis fra New Zealand, Richard heter han, er skikkelig morsom fyr!:) Saa han er ogsaa i leiligheten sammen med oss. For et par dager side var vi paa noen som heter Shark Expo. Et slags museum elelr utstilling om livsfarlige haier. En shark hunter fra Australia som visstnok er kjempekjent ... read more

01.04.06 So here we are in a new location, great! We have arrived at Airlie beach, the place where so many people leave for their massive tourist attack of the Whitsunday islands, but not us!! we are fed up of hearing about them. After getting settled in we went out to check the town out and the local Saturday market. We put our underwater camers in to be put onto cd, so we were looking forward to that. After lunch we walked along the sea front, you can't swim in the sea here because of the stingers. The town is nice, there is quite a lot of shops, a nice harbour and a lovely lagoon that you can swim in to cool off from this tropical heat. After the quietness of Agnes Water it looks like ... read more

I've just got back from my sailing trip which was for 3 days and took my around the Whitsunday islands and I must say it was spectacular. To start off with there were meant to be 12 passengers on the boat plus 2 crew although 6 passengers had got their dates confused so were unable to make it. That's a $3,000 mistake they've learned the hard way. Because there as only 6 of us we each had a hand in steerring the boat and raising the sails on the boat which apart from the rope friction burns on our hands was good fun, but hard work. Our 2 crew were Dave, the south aussie skipper and an english girl called Lyndsey from Southampton who was deck hand and cook for the cruise. The food was awesome ... read more