Whitsunday Islands

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We took a tour out to the Whitsunday Islands. The area named by Captain Cook after sailing through the region a fortnight after Easter Sunday. But Capt. Cook was off a day, it was actually Monday, he had neglected the international date line; hence it was Monday two weeks past Easter Sunday.


The Tour boat took us to 3 destinations. The first was Whitsunday Island where we took a 20 min. climb to a look-out platform. The lookout was a view of the 4th most photographed beach in Australia, a beautiful white silica sand beach; 2nd being Uluru (Ayer's Rock); 3rd the 12 Aposles of the southren coast of Australia, but there are only 7 left; and the 1st most photographed Australian sight is....? Email me and I'll tell you mmmmmaaaaawwwaaaaaa.

Next we went to a beach that was made of the finest sand that we've ever experienced. Again quite beautiful. I think whether we want to or not we'll be bringing some of this sand home with us; it's very fine and gets into everything. After that was our last stop which was the snorkeling and diving site. This was fun but I didn't think the water was that clear. Perhaps further out in the reef the water is much clearer and you can see more. So travellers if you are experienced divers/snorklers this isn't the tour. Perhaps up near Cairns or Port Douglas you will have better success. But we'd both highly recommend the tour just to experience the Whitsundays; We would go again and again.

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Photos

Whitsunday Island
Look Out over the beautiful beach.

Rebecca
Climbing up the trail to the look out.

Andreas and Rebecca
Sporting our stinger suits to protect us from jellyfish.