Blogs from Airlie Beach, Queensland, Australia, Oceania - page 68

Hey Everyone Alright I have bad news, these damn public computers are to slow to upload pictures which is why Becca's page does not have any pictures either right now. But it's just one more week until I am in Perth and there will be pictures galore. In the meantime you'll just have to settle for my excellent verbal descriptive skills. Really that consists of the words hot, amazing, awesome and impossible to describe. But I'll do my best. So we just got back from our sailing trip around the Whitsunday islands. The weather was gorgeous, the water was gorgeous, the snorkelling was gorgeous, in a nutshell it was gorgeous. We travelled on a cadamaran (or something spelt like that) with around 50 other people and stayed on an island resort at night. I almost didn't ... read more

Wow... I don't even know where to start. I've seen and done so much since my last up-date! I left Noosa and headed to Hervey Bay which was a pretty boring place because it's basically a retirement community. Fortunately I left early the next morning for Fraser Island. This was an amazing trip! Fraser Island is the biggest SAND island in the world. It's completely sand! There are only 3 rock formations on the whole island, so the only way to get around is by 4WD. I decided to do the guided tour and I'm really gald that I did because we saw so much! It was extremely hot on the island, but we'd stop a couple times a day to go for a swim and cool down a bit. The third day we walked down ... read more

Up early yet again to catch the 7am bus to Airlie Beach. We checked into Magnums and paid an few extra dollars for a private room, every now and then you need to do this just to get a decent nights sleep. Magnums is a lively hostel surrounded by trees and a small stream that runs by it, so the mosquito's were out in force again.. We were pretty tired and got an early night to make the most of having our own space again. The next morning we headed to Abel Point Marina to catch our Catamaran for our trip to the Whitsundays. The Catamaran was nice, but not as nice as the one we had previously sailed on in Cairns, it was called the Camira, previously named Tsunami, but was renamed out of respect ... read more

Good afternnon everyone...and a happy +30C, sunny although its a little humid...Sorry, I have heard how great the weather is there...LOL... To bring you todate... Monday morning we left Cairns and bused our way to Airlie Beach, about 11 hours south. It wasn't bad, slept most of the way, nice senery of the country, it was interesting to see signs stating "flood area ahead, measurements ahead" and then drive past signs 2 meters high. We arrived in Airlie at 7pm checked in slept some more. 8:30 the next morning, we boarded the "Derwent Hunter", an ECO Tall ship in which we travelled the ocean for 3 days and 2 nights. It was amazing. The weather we awesome, nice and warm. The first day we had great sailing conditions, we stopped at Chance bay, swam in the ... read more

A 12 hr bus ride can be pretty boring... so i was glad i had Martin as a travel buddy. Although we stopped over in several places... mostly towns that had maybe an old granny walking the streets or an odd Fish and Chips shop... kinda funny! One stop we made was in the middle of the Night at a Gas station in the MIDDLE OF NOWHERE... there was nothing around but that gas station... oh well it works for some stretching and coffee and a cigarette! hahah We arrived in Airlie Beach at around midnight... as we didn't know which hostel we were going to stay in we took the next best... BUSH Village ... sounded good n looked good on the little poster the chick had. And it was CHEAP ...TAKEN!!! the next day ... read more