Airlie Beach, Australia Travel Blogs

The WhitSundays
Jul 14, 2006 (5 photos)

... night and uncomfortable sleep, the next morning we headed to another cove to go snorkelling again. At lunch time we headed back to Airlie beach (about 3.5 hr trip in 20 knot winds). We tried to eat our lunch but the movement of the boat made this virtualy ...

Sailing the Whitsundays
Sep 8, 2005

In less than four hours I'll be setting sail for the Whitsunday Islands on board the twelve berth 1928 classic gaff rigged ketch known as "Ron of Argyll". This vessel has a lot of history (King George V was a regular crew member and Marilyn Monroe a ...

Brisbane to Airlie Beach and everything in between
Aug 30, 2008 (26 photos)

... way back to the barge to return to Hervey Bay... We spent another night in Hervey, and then hopped on an overnight bus to Airlie Beach - which is where we are now!!  We are staying at a hostel that is kind of like little beach huts, which is ...

Most Beautiful Man In the World
Oct 1, 2003 (14 photos)

... on me for having to travel with Jordan and therefore provide me with the luxury that I should be accustomed to. Now, we are in Airlie beach after a 10 hour overnight bus ride (no upgrades there) and are waiting to get on a sailboat that will sail us ...

To Queensland and beyond...
Nov 17, 2004 (5 photos)

... have to catch a boat to the Whitsundays we would have stayed longer. More things we've Learned While Travelling Australia... 1. A middie, pot and schooner are all different names for containers of beer. This is the kind of cultural research that ...

Sailing in the Whitsundays
Jun 22, 2005 (20 photos)

We arrive in Airlie Beach on 22nd June ready to head off sailing around the Whitsundays the following day. Staying at Reefos which is a bit out of the way but does offer $5 dinners - nice. We had been feeling paranoid about getting a bunch of weirdos on ...

A hard life on the Whitsundays!
May 1, 2006 (23 photos)

... off the boat, while also feeding 4 huge angel fish that would nibble our toes if we dangled them in! We are leaving airlie Beach tomorrow and i thing we are going to Mission Beach, or it could be Magnetic Island, im not sure so will look forward to ...

A Relative of a Relative of a Friend
Nov 16, 2006 (2 photos)

Sue and Nigel who I stayed with in Mackay mentioned they had a relative living just outside Airlie Beach and I was more than welcome to stay. Not wanting to impose myself on someone who was no more than a relative of relative of a friend back home I found ...

Whitsunday Islands
May 20, 2007 (17 photos)

... Package holiday resorts, not normally my thing, but for one day it was wonderful. Once again we didn't do much but it was really nice just to chill out in a little piece of paradise. Back in Airlie beach we caught our last overnight bus to Cairns.....

Early in to Airlie
Nov 29, 2006

... silent but deadly farts across her air space. Like all good things, this bus ride comes to an end, depositing us in Airlie Beach, the gateway to the Whitsunday Islands and the Great Barrier Reef. The village is a lot like Byron Beach in that its sole ...

Airlie Beach
Oct 15, 2004

... on regardless. I really believe Colin was silently surged at having completely cocked up a backpackers day. Anyway before we reached Airlie Beach we discovered from his things that the bloke was headed there too, so we got his stuff together and Rene ...

Chapter 19: "The Closing of the Year"
Jan 1, 2004 (13 photos)

... we sat on the crowded lawn near the beach to watch the fireworks at midnight. It was the first year they'd had fireworks in Airlie Beach, and they were actually pretty good. We snuck into the Beaches New Year's Party and hung out with friends from the bus ...

Steady away today
Nov 28, 2006 (115 photos)

... finally stopped in Townsville for lunch and a quick wonder around a shopping centre just to stretch our legs. We arrive in Airlie Beach about the same time as the Grey Hound Bus and scramble into the nearest backpackers for a bed. They are full. ...

Australia - Airlie Beach / Whitsundays
Jan 31, 2006 (65 photos)

... Island trip. From here on in we were all to be known as 'Team Fraser'...our clique was established! We wandered around Airlie Beach town for a while, essentially a one street town - purpose built for the trips over to the Whitsunday Islands. As the ...

Born to be a sailor
Jan 14, 2006 (15 photos)

... and embark on my own sailing adventure...even if it would only be for three days. I arrived in Airlie Beach, one of the party cities of Australia, ready for anything...and then it started raining. On the morning of the day I was supposed to meet the ...

Brisbane to Airlie....white to almost tanned
Sep 1, 2008 (26 photos)

... better :) So feeling a little rough still after Fraser island...back in Hervey bay we relaxed some more and then headed to airlie beach.  Here we were set to go on a 12 man sailing boat for two days and two nights around the Whitsundays ...

Whitsundays
Dec 1, 2006 (5 photos)

... a large stingray, swimming around, minding its own business. This completes the set of potentially fatal creatures Jane has seen in Australia. Back on the boat, we do this thing called 'boomnetting'. A rope net, such as the one you climb up on an ...

Boats and Planes
Feb 24, 2008 (9 photos)

... place in Australia, Maggie Island is one of the sunniest - with 320 sunny days every year. Then yesterday we continued South to Airlie Beach - the gateway to the Whitsundays, which are a group of 74 islands off the coast of Oz. They've had some really ...

Great Barrier Reef, Batman! (CONTAINS VIDEO)
Nov 30, 2006 (6 photos)

... The boat powers us out into hte Whitsunday Island archipelago, a collection of variably-sized and mostly uninhabited islands dotted off the Airlie Beach coast. Once past the islands we enter the open sea and come to a stop at what looks like one of ...

Screamadelica
Oct 5, 2005 (1 photos)

Tourist Misinformation
Oct 3, 2005 (2 photos)

Whitsundays
Apr 6, 2007 (2 photos)

... and the heat immediatley hit us compared to down on the Gold Coast. We jumped on a bus to drive us the 30 minutes into Airlie Beach, all pretty charged up for the weekahead. At Airlie we quickly found our hostel we had pre-booked. A massive place called ...

Another sailing trip!
Nov 20, 2003 (5 photos)

... boat, but we were all eventually pushed onto shore and spent that evening at a boat night out, visiting various drinking establishments in Airlie Beach. We met up with the other guys that we had left ashore for this trip (there was getting to be a large ...

What Beach?
Nov 13, 2006 (2 photos)

... farewell to Nigel, Sue and co hoping that I would back this way again someday to visit before I got the early bus to Airlie Beach. A strange name really for a place without much of a beach instead having an artificial lagoon to make up for it and to ...

The Whitsundays
Dec 7, 2007 (16 photos)

... shouted 'Simon!' so much at his first mate (assistant), we're all thinking of having it as a ring-tone! We started out from Airlie Beach- another great spot- and headed out for 3 days and 2 nights of paradise on the Ileola, a 50 year old yacht, found ...

Whitsundays at last
Nov 12, 2003 (2 photos)

... come straight off a postcard. (Hopefully will get a chance to get some Whiotsunday photo's on soon.) We had known that Airlie Beach = Whitsundays = Boat Trip, so the very first thing that we did upon arrival after checking into to the Koala Hostel here, ...

Whitsunday Islands
Sep 23, 2008 (11 photos)

... East coast which, we discovered was too expensive for accommodation so we got a ferry to the mainland to a backpackers haven called Airlie Beach. Michael was happy to be back in the homeland and had a Carlton Draught to celebrate. Next day we headed out ...

Week Thirty Three - Tropical Queensland
Apr 8, 2004 (18 photos)

... to go to Kurrimbine Beach which is just up the road and which some Aussie had said is supposed to be the nicest beach in Australia. We'll see. We walk around the town a couple of times then go online and book accommodation in Darwin, again with Rates-To- ...

Early start for Airlie
Nov 29, 2008 (17 photos)

... to Airlie non-stop, arriving about 1pm. We checked into Adventure Whitsunday's Park and had some lunch. We had a wander through Airlie Beach Town afterwards. This is quite a backpacker town, although the prices aren't for backpacker's! There's a few good ...

Down in the lagoon and in the town
Nov 30, 2008 (17 photos)

After another Lorna-Lie-In, we went down to the lagoon area on the sea front. The lagoon itself was massive and it wasn't very busy which was a bonus. We also had some thin cloud cover today, so that was good so we didn't get sunburnt. We spent all ...