What Beach?
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Airlie Beach,
Australia
Monday, November 13, 2006
A strange name really for a place without much of a beach instead having an artificial lagoon to make up for it and to keep tourist's toes away from the stingers in the water at this time of year.
A definite tourist town although lacking the bucket and spade hanging outside the souvenir shops (again probably due to the lack of beach) the place seemed to serve one main purpose being the launching point for sailing trips around the Whitsunday Islands lying just offshore nestled within the Great Barrier Reef.
Airlie Beach
The end of the 'Reef Festival', a 10 day long festival saw some live bands and food stalls down by the non-beach giving a good place to sit and bake in the sun for a while.
Walking down the street in the evening I noticed a face coming the other way recognizing the same look on their face as on mine along the 'where have I seen them before variety.' Rick and Helen who I'd met in Singapore had also found there way here with the same aim to sail around the islands for a few days and although not the first time I've run into people I'd met previously was certainly the first time with a whole continents difference between meetings.
Small world eh?
