Whitsunday Wanderers Resort Airlie Beach Hamilton Island

... was punctuated by not so boozy socialising and a smorgasbord of cuisine including Jo&#8217;s famous prawn fruit cocktail salad.<br><br><br><br><br><br><br>Recip e for 4 people<br><br>1 kg peeled cooked prawns (not too big)<br>1 can sliced peaches<br>1 can lychees<br>250 ml mayonnaise<br>1 avocado<br>1 tablespoon curry powder<br>Snow pea sprouts<br><br>Method <br>Drain peaches and lychees.<br>Cut prawns ...

... we would happily let you get close enough so you could stroke him and he followed us for the rest of the dive, very cool. I will try and edit all the video together and try uploading that at some point as at the minute some are of the videos are quite long. After the dive we got taking back to the boat were everyone else had been for a little while either jumping off the top deck or going down the water slide that was on the side of the boat. Laura had entertained ...

... out a bit while Tommo the Skipper navigated our way to Mantaray Bay for our next dive spot. On our way Tommo called out Whale and so we all jumped out onto the front of the boat to see in the horizon there was in fact a Whale splashing around. We got closer and closer to it, Tommo turned off the engine and we stood there in awe waiting to see it more closely as it became apparent it was a mother and calf playing together in the surf. The calf played around ...

... in the world.It was a 2 and a half hour plane ride from Sidney and from the minute we landed it was 6 star luxury treatment and a kind of peace you can't find in many places. Had I know about it before we may have vacationed here sooner. But then no other vacation could have ever lived up to this so I'm very glad we waited so long.

... with relief. That and the fact that I will not have to moor the boat back in the marina is the best news I&#8217;d heard all week!!<br><br>Greg and Craig take on all the heavy lifting duties and all the mechanical running of the boat, so all I have to do is learn how to handle &#8220;Happy Cat&#8221; our 10 berth Seawind 1200E Sailing Catamaran&#8230;<br><br>A few hours later we had dropped off Ed at Daydream Island to get a ferry back to the mainland and we were on our ...

... midday. The remainder of the day was spent chilling out at the Lagoon with Jenny, Rafa, Lucia and Nadia. After using the Internet we went to Magnums where we were expecting to meet the rest of the Goon Squad from Habibi, however only a few of us turned up, but i wasn't too disappointed as many had said they would be on the Greyhound to Cairns. I got an early night.<br>

... an emotional time for some. The ceremony went off without a hitch and after the photos and thank you's, free drinks untill a meal on cruise boat. The meal was fantastic. I'm sure I speak for everyone at the ceremony when I say we wish Jenny and Adrian all the happiness and good times in the world. They looked incredibly happy and I'm sure that will remain for many, many years. Congratulations. After the meal came a night of drinking most of which I dont remember ...

... basically drove like a loonatic! Sarah was screaming on the back and I thought they were screams of excitement..they weren't..they were screams of.."I'm going to vomit if you don't slow down"..NICE! Then we had a little swim in the sea and got out only to see there was a big sign telling everbody not to swim there as there was box jellyfish everywhere..the girl at reception did mention that there were ...

... Hamilton Island). Simon Offered me to sail with him from Abel Point and said he would be able to drop me off in Hamilton Island inplenty of time to catch my flight. Only trouble was, all my valuables were locked up in the safe abck in teh office in Bush Village and I had no idea if I could get them out in time, so I could meet Simon at his yacht at 7am... We exchanged numbers, said good bye and I hoped that I'd be able to make the sail in the ...