After Rainbow Beach we took another night bus (16 hours) to Airlie Beach, the gateway to the Whitsunday Islands. Airlie in the sun was beautiful with a outdoor lagoon/pool. When we arrived we had to check in to our boat company to say we are here and ready to go. Problem: there was not enough people for our boat. Solution: we will upgrade you to a 5* boat with an extra night and a private room. RESULT. We chilled around Airlie for a day and then boarded our boat, Whitsunday Magic.
The boat was big; we had our own en-suite cabin, there was a bar and a sun deck. The first night we set sail for the outer reef, the sea was calm but there was a storm threatening potentially stopping us from going to the reef. Fortunately this was not an issue and our skipper took us out to the reef where we snorkeled and scuba dived. Scuba diving is amazing... makes you feel like you are flying. We brought a water proof camera bag; see pictures below from our snorkeling;
The sail back to the Whitsunday Islands was horrendous; 2m waves and 30knot winds threw us around the place. The majority of the boat went to bed with motion sickness whilst I stayed up and wrote my journal. The weather then changed again and became very wet and windy!
The next day we went to Whitehaven beach, as the pics show the weather was not optimal. We walked around the beach and took in the sights. The boat back to our ship required some muscle work which was fun. Whilst anchored we saw an endangered Dugong, look it up! We then sailed to another bay, another rocky trip. The weather was not good for our trip but we made the most of it and made some new friends. In decent weather the trip would have been perfect, instead it will have to remain as amazing! We are currently stuck in Airlie Beach, there has been 4 days of constant rain closing roads and airports. Luckily we have friends here so have been trying not to get cabin fever; I have never seen or felt rain like this!!! Hopefully we can escape from this place soon; Uluru is next big thing, we may be skipping Cairns.
5 comments:
Ah great pictures. Love the one of you sitting on the boat. Very impressed you weren't ill Paul. Looked up the Dugong, strange creature, reminded me a bit of a hippo. Well here's to the rain stopping. How are you going to get to Uluru now?
Going to rename this tour, wild weather attacks!! Good to hear from you and the photos are brilliant, love the suntan on both of you, we only get a rust tan here from the rain and wind!! love to both take care, the oldiessxx
great pics, glad your still having a great time, seems funny seeing you with a good tan. love jamie and lyn
i am missing u two sooooooooooo much. Alot has been happening for instensts i'm on crutches because i've sprained my foot badely. enough about me, thoes pictures are amazing! i'd love to go scuba diving. i still can't beleive u are actually on the overside of the world. i can't keep trake. you ;'ll have to go on skype soon about Wednesday. love u bye
Hi darling. Sorry it's taken a while to reply we have been camping in the desert! It's was amazing we will update the blog soon. Oh poor u in crutches! What happened? Will phone u sat morning if that's ok. If u don't get this before I will let mum know that I will phone. Love u so much! Xx
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