Peppers Coral Coast Airlie Beach

... one of the islands where we would stay the night. I took in the magnificent view of green mountianous islands protruding from the blue ocean while the sun set on the horizon and the stars pricked the darkening sky. The cabins inside the boat were very small and restrictive so we were encouraged to sleep on deck. After a boozy first night (as first nights often go) I happily obliged.
As the sun rose over the horizon the next day it didn't take long until the breakfast bell rang ...

... dans la pièce commune, où de grande banquette fera l’affaire. Ce n’est pas le gros luxe: ça ressemble plus à un sous-sol de chalet, avec de bon vieux coussins défraîchis mais qui vont revenir un jour à la mode.

Jour 32 :

Au levé, nous avons fait la navette en zodiac entre le catamaran et Whitehaven Beach. Le lieu est très populaire car le sable de la plage est blanc (Composé de 98% de silice). Je ne suis pas sûr que les ...

... most famous beaches i think in the whitsundays, and as soon as we got there it poured! the crew said they would come back and get us in 3 hours and they went back to the boat while we were stranded in the rain on a desert island! we couldnt believe it!! eventually we got back to our boat and went sailing and the weather picked up!! we found a really good snorkelling spot with great coral and lots of fish and it was sunny at last! we had a good snorkel and a good lunch - everyone ...

... reef as cool as ever. Glad I just did a day trip though as 3 days on a boat would be too long for me. Exhausted today spent most of the time trying to keep my eyes open as been too many late nights and **** sleeps recently. Weather wasn't great and ocean was choppy as **** thankfully I had taken sickness tabs as many a people turned green. even in the reef the swell was pretty intense which made it hard to get anywhere, was knackered ...

Had a good sleep and woke up in the bush. Packed up and headed to airlie beach. Wandered around town and used some internet before heading to the lagoon. Lots of people at the lagoon, some of then topless sunbathing ;) Had some lazy swims and some sun baking time. Checked into our sailing trip and got the lowdown. Wandered around town a ...

... he owned the beach and happily shouted abuse at everyone and drove his boat like a maniac, to which Ryan the dive instructor had enough and got into a argument with him but had the backing of the whole beach who thought the bloke was a bit of a numpty. Anyway this was just filling time before it was my turn, 2 of the girls had dropped out just leaving me and a girl called Arabella which was fine with me but sadly our friend Dan was put into our group as well, thankfully ...

... size as ours) with both of its sails up over took us (we had only had one at half mast),& it was much featherhead when the captain ordered the crew to put up all the sails. Once the sails were in place, we caught up with the other boat & over took it. It really showed us the power the boat had & why it had won so many races.
That’s all for Airlie & Whitsunday Sailing,

Next stop is Cairns & the Great Barrier Reef :-).

... Finally we could actually chill out and went for a swim in the pool at the campsite. That night round the communal kitchen we met Soren and Jeanne from Denmark who were on a six week holiday to oz, we had a really nice chat over wine and a pack of tooheys.

Our free camping had run out but to be honest no-one hardly noticed we were there, so we decided to stay the extra night here. Soren and jeanne also needed somewhere to stay so ...

... in and get organised before our sailing guide arrived at 8am the next morning to teach us how to handle the boat.

I think poor Danielle was a bit overwhelmed when she saw the size of the boat. She was the only one with any sailing experience so she was our nominated skipper for the week. We were all wondering how on earth she'd get the boat back into the marina at the end of the trip.

Our guide Ed was fantastic. He explained ...

... Haiti.

Anyways, I slept well (besides hearing this insanely loud argument outside at 5am) and got up at 7am. I get a newspaper and have breakfast. Salli was also up and we have breakfast. It was her and I engaging in cross-cultural chat about many issues. This is an occasion that I cherish – a chat with a foreigner in another land. After, I head up to my room ...