Waterfront Whitsunday Airlie Beach

... nun sind es nur noch 17, die die Ostkueste entlang bis nach Brisbane fahren.
Es geht gen Sueden, uebrigens zum ersten Mal auf dieser Reise. Der Highway Nr 1, den wir schon in Victoria und Suedaustralien befahren haben und der fast um ganz Australien herumfuehrt, ist unsere Fahrbahn. Pausen wurden in Cardwell, Townsville und Bowen eingelegt. Zuckerrohrfelder und Mangoplantagen begleiten uns entlang des Weges.

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Back at Magnums.... the first shower in 3 days felt amazing!! Another lazy afternoon at the lagoon, then last night was the 'after-party' where everyone from the boat, including the crew, met for drinks......
Top night out...... only about 10 people from the boat were there, and we had a few other people with us... I must have looked amazing because around this one table I had a german, italian, the kiwi crew-man and an englishman all vying for my ...

... Bowenwood (I guess everyone has to have their day in the sun some time). In regards to the movie mania that obviously gripped this town, we did see some newspaper clippings and photos on the walls of the local bakery where cast and crew from the movie 'Australia’ enjoyed their pies. Surprisingly we could see nothing here that appealed to us, so we kept moving and found ourselves at Airlie Beach.

Unfortunately for our hip pocket we arrived ...

... of the boat which I gladly volunteered, and the angle at which the boat sailed is crazy!! Erika was very scared and holding on to the railings like it was going out of fashion, lol. I was just loving the wind in my face :-). We arrived in Whiteheaven beach after about two hours sailing and it was definitely and sight for soar eyes, one of the most beautiful beaches, I had seen :-), and the water was sooooo warm, I had never been in ocean water that warm ...

... of a shock to know what we were to get straight in the water before breakfast! The water was so cold it really woke you up very quickly and as we only had 40 minutes in the water we knew we had to make the most of it. We were in Turtle Bay and so we were all on the lookout for Turtles and time was of the essence. I swam out with a few of the others to the reef and started combing for turtles, none to be found at first but then all of a sudden I looked down to ...

... islands for a few hours and in that time i was able to speak to many of the people on our boat; Steven, Kove, Kristy, Amber, Katie, Cassandra, Katie and Dominique (all from the USA). Kenny (from Scotland), Ali and Ali (from England), Josh (from Canada), Jenny (England) and Sarah (England). Everyone on the boat were really cool and chilled out, but good fun. Everyone played card games in the evening until food was served: snags on the BBQ by our amazing crew; Shaz, AJ, Dave and Giles ...

... bout. A couple of us decided to br*ve the we*ther *nd go ne*rer to the front of the bo*t *nd cling on for de*r life *s w*ves occ*sion*lly cr*shed over the side of the bo*t *nd we dipped right down into big w*ves. We fin*lly m*de it to the reef *nd luckily it w*s much c*lmer here bec*use its depth w*s only 8-20 meters deep *nd the reef stops the w*ves getting there. Still it w*s * bit choppy though. I decided to be br*ve *nd do * proper scub* dive with Brend*n. We went with ...

... were assigned to our beds which luckily for us were in our own private double room. Then we met up on deck for a run down on how the trip would go and to get to know the rules. We all piled our drink into the two eskies provided and then we were off. The boat sailed out of the marina and the party started. We spent the next four hours having a few beers and getting to know the other passengers on the boat. There was one guy from Hong Kong, one Japanese, an Israeli, two ...

... days. The beautiful days were spent relaxing on the beach working on my tan, which for a pale Scottish girl who's skin is usually either white or red, is actually very impressive! But unfortunately when the heavens open there are zero things to entertain you. Rainbow beach is apparently beautiful but we had 2 days of torrential rain while we were there.

After waiting in Hervey bay for a few days for the weather to improve we finally got to go on ...