Blogs from Whitsundays, Queensland, Australia, Oceania - page 3

Our onward journey toward Bowen makes use of the Bruce highway,notorious for accidents and it's easy to see why.Single lane for most of it's length and in poor condition the need for concentration is very evident.Nevertheless the journey is good with ever changing scenery.We reach Bowen and after inspecting 2 of the caravan parks we decided to keep moving and head for Airlie beach a town which is the gateway to the Whitsunday Islands all 74 of them ,this is a place we have visited several times and we are surprised how much it has changed from a small sleepy town to a modern vibrant holiday destination. Boasting new shopping centres to a new marina and transit centre where boats leave for tours of the islands and the great barrier reef.We are told that the town ... read more

This morning I was awake early for a change lol as I was heading off to the Whitsunday islands for assailing trip for a couple of days. I had per packed npmy little backpack the night before in readiness for my trip and I was leaving my big ruck sack at the hostel for a couple of days whilst I was away, but had to pay $6 for the pleasure! I got ready had breakfast and checked out and walked up to the meeting point and was 30 minutes early, but better to be early than late :-) there were other people there also meeting for boat trips so it was obviously the main meeting point for the boat trips going from the marina. Whilst I was waiting I bumped into Natalie and Rachel my two ... read more

Waking up in a random house, in the middle of no where, hungover, was not what I wanted to be doing on the morning of a boat tour but hey ho, here I was. One of the lads put some music on again and then offered us a lift back into town, sorted! We had to drive for about 10 minutes down a dirt track before we even reached a road which showed we were pretty far out, although when I asked the lad he did admit that it meant they can have the best house parties with no interruptions from neighbours or Police. I got dropped off at the hostel and it was a mad rush for me to quickly pack my bag, check out and head down to the harbour. We were running a ... read more

A perfect Daydream Island Wedding doesn't plan itself over night. My sister, Jessica, the bride to be, planned relentlessly for almost 2 years for her big day. Luckily, most was put together for her in a wedding package by a personal wedding coordinator which they have on the island for you. Rachel, the wedding coordinator was amazing an undoubtedly the most important aspect of the wedding planning. The package can be basic, extravagant or anything in between with options to upgrade this and extend that. I feel Jessica's was somewhere in the middle. The 50-something guest, including myself, arrive into Hamilton Island airport the day before the wedding. It is a blissful, sunny, hot November day and the sky is perfectly clear. Our fingers are crossed for similar weather the next day. Half the group had ... read more

19/2 Our bus arrived around midnight and we all waited to get checked on and store our luggage. There was a strange lady who was trying to talk to us but she seemed a little dodgy, asking us if we were going to sleep on the bus, so we tried to avoid her. Luckily we were given seat allocations and we were opposite ends of the bus! We left on time (00.25) and started our long journey. The bus driver was pretty crazy, driving very fast and kept going over the bumpy lines on the side of the road. It was very quiet, everyone seemed to be sleeping- except me of course! We stopped around 2.30 to pick up some other passengers, and I hadn't slept at all by this point. I managed to doze on ... read more