Sea Star Apartments Airlie Beach

It was a bloody long drive up to Airlie. 16hours in this bus and when we arrived in Airlie, it starts raining very strong. I've to check in for my boat how leaves at 2 o'clock today. At Luch, the weather cleans a littel bit up. So I look forward to 2 unbelieveable days in the White Sundays.

... comment that 'the reason its so light and small compared to every one elses is because most people have jeans as well as pyjamas'. I've been laughing about it ever since! :D<br><br>It's been good, everyones off sailing either today or tomorrow and then leaving I'll be here until the 4th (which is not good seeing as its so expensive) until I can meet G man in Townsville for the full moon party. Then up to Cairns do a few things and take off to SE Asia and live like a king for a few months!

... sky and glorious sunshine, the photo's I take don't even begin to do it justice. We get a couple of hours in paradise to soak and sun ourselves, which is just not nearly enough! After some final human pyramid forming and some girly poses in the clear blue water we head back to the yacht! We then do some proper sailing, tacking left and right and running from starboard to port each time, really good fun. Absolutely loving the food on ...

... at the end of my dives, but for these dives I was super comfortable in the water, good on air, no headaches, etc. This bodes well for the 3 day live-aboard dive trip I'm going on on the 13th!<br><br>Anyhow, I'm running out of internet time so I'll try to post up some pics and then call it a day on this post, I'll do one again when I get to Cairns, maybe tomorrow or the next day!

... I took full advantage of this (I am living on credit cards at the mo) despite being off the market and happily accepted their offers of drinks while managing to avoid their advances, with the help of my boat wing-men to protect me.... my new brothers.... funny, funny night.....<br><br>Today - you guessed it, another lazy day sunbathing at the lagoon and now waiting for another overnight bus up north to Cairns..... I still have sea-legs... feeling wobbly after ...

... Reef - what more can one ask for. The next day was time for a bit of water activities again and then we sailed back to Airlie Beach and just chilled on the boat and soaked up the sun and the landscape and the colours of the ocean. <br>And like the cherry on the cake we saw dolphins on the way back. I was just sitting in the front of the boat and looked to my left onto the water when they passed just under the boat. Wonderful. <br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br >

... into dolphins frolicking in the water off Hook Island. Craig nearly jumped out his skin as one of them jumped out of the water right in front of him. They were too quick though and miles away before we got any decent photos.<br><br>We sailed around the north of Hook Island and moored at Maureen's Cove for a quick snorkel. We weren't disappointed - the snorkelling was fantastic. Craig &amp; I had to be dragged out of the water back to the boat ...

... ferry. This Island is paradise! Never seen anything so picture perfect. Settled in, and felt so ill especially after attempted diner, which sucked as another Contiki group was there, include Chrissy who was in our group up north! If only I would have known I might have been able to tough it out, but really I couldn't stand up. Slept a good 12 hours. <br><br>Really wanted to explore the island as it has so much but unfourtanitly partying was catching up I think.

... playing a mini-game of volleyball. With an errant smash, the ball careered towards us and spilled a jug of beer. One of the guys came over to the retrieve the ball and announced in a loud voice, &#8220;Excuse me, Canadian coming through&#8221;. Julie and Michelle, two of the Canadians from my group, immediately looked at each other and denied the fact that he could possibly be one of them. They could tell even without ...