Whitsunday Passage Whitsunday Islands

... Reef Marine Park. They split into 5 groups - the Whitsunday, Molle, Lindeman, Repulse and Gloucester Islands and are scattered along both sides of thw Whitsunday Passage. The gentle swaying of the boat set the rythm for the day. Find a spot on the ...

... down to the galley to make lunch (prawns, of course). However, this was also the point that we started crossing the Whitsunday Passage, the first open-sea area we had hit, complete with enormous scary crashing waves. Cue much flailing around the galley ...

... before we set sail into the roughest waves I had seen yet on our trip. It was a 2 hour journey through the ocean (the Whitsunday passage) - and after about 20 minutes, 11 of us were seasick over one side of the boat as the waves came crashing over. With ...

... in 1770.  He was mapping and researching for Britain's government.  On a northerly course, he sailed into the Whitsunday Passage on Whit Sunday (40 days after Easter, June 3rd of that year), discovering the Great Barrier Reef by running aground ...

... sky was incredibly overcast as the yacht we were to spend the day on slipped away from Long Island and out into the Whitsunday Passage. As it got darker the crew handed out bright yellow raincoats, and their timing couldn’t have been more perfect. ...