We stayed at Airlie beach before we jetted off on our sailing adventure. Its a lovely little town with quite a lively night life. The night before Whitsundays we met up with a couple of old friends from New Zealand, it turned out to be a good night but not so good for our early rise the next day!
Whitsundays is made up of 74 Islands and is absolutely gorgeous! We loved every second of it. We sailed around the Islands on a catamaran called Avatar, and ended up having a really good group again, there were 25 of us all together including the crew. The first day we made it to Whitehaven beach and luckily for us the sun was shining, the place looked magical, its just such a shame you cant go and jump into the crsytal clear waters because of all the stingers!!! We also saw lots of fully grown logger head turtles sticking their heads out of the water and taking a few breaths before disappearing again.
On the second day the weather wasnt that great but it was fine as we spent most of the day snorkling. We saw some beautiful fish including a Maori Wrasse which was the size of us!!!! Around lunch time there was a massive storm with lots of rain and strong winds... it made sailing brilliant, we were speeding along the open ocean and we were all wearing our yellow fisherman macs... great fun!!! That night the good old drinking games came out and we all had a good giggle on the boat, before gently being rocked to sleep!
On the final day we went snorkling again in the morning, the visability was not as good as yesterday but we did get to see a sting ray!!! After lunch we put the sails up for one last time and headed back to the main land. Overall... absolutely fantastic trip!
Links to Photos of Whitsundays:
http://leedsac.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2277102&l=70cd3&id=197810485
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