Blogs from Airlie Beach, Queensland, Australia, Oceania - page 72

A little late I know - but we've been very busy & the internet is so busy in most places we've been. Well - here we are in Airlie Beach something like 800km down the coast from Cairns. This is the jumping off point to get onto the Whitsunday Islands, a group of supposedly gorgeous islands that were pushed through the ocean by the movement of the continental plates. They include Whitehaven beach - the 5th most beautiful beach in the world apparently! In about two hours Kate and I jump on a racing yacht and spend a couple of days(and nights) sailing around them. This will be something to look forward to, especially after having had a few days of poor weather, the clouds have finally parted and we're enjoying full on aussie sunshine. Airlie is quite tropical, pretty ... read more

The next Dan cooked a great fry up and we spent the morning booking our boat trip. Our boat was defender and she was an old sailing rig. I spent the up in the mountains on a Quad Bike Track which was great fun and got real muddy. The group I was there with were a bit boring and I ended up staying a bit longer and doing the mountain challenge which was a bit hairy. I eventually fell off trying to a sharp turn on the steepest part of the hill as the quad overbalanced. I jumped off when I couldnt hold her but I had escaped as the damm thing starting rolling down the hill and I had to jump up and run down the hill to escape. Luckily we were both ok and ... read more

Leaving Airlie beach (the town that has no beach) in the morning on our vessel (the matador) the biggest racing yacht in the world!. We were lead into the Whitsunday islands off the coast of queensland by a pod of Dolphins at the front of the boat, amazed to see them everytime. We anchored at many points around the island but Whitehaven!! WOW unreal, probably the most idilic scenery i have ever come across, we alighted the yacht and explored the island finally settling on Whitehaven beach. Something to rival Lake McKenzie on Fraser Island, the most brilliant grainy white sand with fringing light transparent turquoise ocean, so clear and fresh looking i wanted to drink it. This is truely unreal beauty. I feel so lucky to have been here. Nature at its best, as we ... read more

Geo: -20.2679, 148.7161 - Whitsunday Islands... read more