Coral Point Lodge Shute Harbour

Had breakfast during a really rough ride over to whitehaven beach. Simply amazing!!!! The cleanest, finest whitest sand I have ever seen. Looks just like the postcards. Did some swimming and tanning, then took a lot of photos before taking off. Saw a big sea turtle while waiting to leave. Sailed over to blue pearl bay and did some snorkeling, which had lots of fish, but poor vis... Dove at castle rock where I saw a few new types of coral, but again, poor vis. Dive ...

Woke up to another very windy day. Packed up the site then headed to south haven for a hike. Checked out coral beach which, surprisingly was covered in coral. Trekked to a lookout and got a nice look at the whitsundays. Saw a goenna on the trek, went all steve irwin on it and climbed a tree for a better photo. Headed back ...

... just snorkeling, so when we got to a beach full of old chunks of coral not a grain of sand in sight we set up camp before we both went for a snorkel. I was in one of the later groups so had plenty of time to explore before I needed to get geared up. The snorkel was good, lots of cool fish and coral but nothing better than Koh Tao in Thailand. We chilled out on the beach watching all the groups getting geared up and going out form the beach which made it easier for ...

Hey guys!<br><br>Having an AMAZING time with COntiki!<br><br>Spent about 3 days aroudn the Whitsundays sailing on a boat with about 23 other people. Went snorkelling in the Great Barrier Reef twice which was unbelievble. We would anchor the boat at night and just sleep on there which was very tight quarters but good fun. My tour group with Contiki is very cool, people from all over, the people I've bonded with the most are from either Australia (from ...

... Many of the islands are uninhabited, seven others are developed as expensive beach resorts. Without your own boat it difficult to visit the islands other than going on an organised tour. There are many booking agencies and information centres on the main street amongst the tourist shops, restaurants and backpackers hostels.<br><br>I stayed at the Airlie Cove Caravan Park for 5 nights. The manager there recommended a trip on a retired sailing yacht which turned out to be an ...

We were really looking forward to our trip to the Whitsunday Islands and this was as far as we were heading up the coast, we could hardly wait to get out to the reef. We parked up in the harbour car park and made our way down to the pier, our van looked very much out of place in the marina car park with all the fancy yachts in the background but who really cares. <br><br>Welcomed on board by Timmy our dive instructor, a young guy with a lot of enthusiasm for his ...

Sailing the Whitsundays - Day 143 - 151<br><br>We were all very excited about the week ahead. Danielle and I had meticulously planned our meals for the week to make sure we had lots of yummy food. We also put quite a lot of thought into making sure we wouldn't run out of alcohol - god forbid!<br><br>The charter company were great and allowed us to pay a mooring fee to stay on the boat the night before we were due to set sail. This gave us time to ...

... manly and headed back over t th city to meet up with brooke. <br><br>Endd up goingt o brooke parents.... wedding video.. etc if you've seen the pics you'll know what happened! after a couple of glasses of wine we decided to recreate the wedding! was hilarious! Got back to brooke and bens late brooke cooked up a storn and we headed out late... l;ike 11pm to kings cross! saw it hookers and all.. stayed out with their mates until 5am and had to be up at 7am to get on our bus we'd ...

... ended up being late for my manicure. This girl didn't do so great a job, I get way better at home, and for more than half that price off. O well. <br><br>Had a delicous chocolate sundae for dessert before I got this major pain in my side which sent me straight to bed unable to move. Spent night in bed and missed the pool party which heard was a really good time and it involved the guys stripping or something.... but I definitly missed a good night.

... were big but the ceiling was very very close! We then parked up at Blue Pearl Bay and off we went to snorkel ...it was amazing! Lots of fish, a Mary Wrasse who let some divers stroke her and lots of beautiful coral. We also got to grips with using Aidan's camera underwater. The first evening was tough as we drove on to moor up overnight at Whitehaven bay. However to achieve this we had to drive through the washing machine...even Aidan experienced some sea sickness ...