Whitsunday Wanderers

... for a few ridiculously expensive and unnecessary tourist resorts. We stopped at the largest island in the Whitsundays - Whitsunday Island - home of breathtaking Whitehaven Beach (http://www.whitsundaytourism.com/). Whitehaven Beach is made up of 99.98% ...

... a fog laden field somewhere around Mackay (PIC). We arrived into Airlie Beach at 9:00am and checked into our motel, the Whitsunday Wanderers Resort, only to find that it was the place we had to go to register our place on the Whitsundays Sailing trip - ...

Booking a day trip that departed at 7am is always a bad mistake. Especially when you have been drinking the previous night, returning home at 5am! We had a spare day in Airle Beach as our coach didn't leave till 8pm that night, so instead of staying there ...

... back on a bus for the first time since South America for the 9 hour journey down to Airlie Beach - gateway to the Whitsunday islands and a beautiful coastal resort with a pretty impressive swimming lagoon which, being free, we have made plenty of use of. ...

... Xavier and board "Domino"; our yacht for the day. There isn't enough wind to sail so we motor to one of the Whitsunday Islands; Langford Island, narrowly missing a turtle and seeing a few dolphins in the distance. We snorkel the "G.B" Reef again then swim ...