Witsundays Adventures!

Trip Start Dec 20, 2004
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Trip End Sep 2005


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Tuesday, June 7, 2005

Airlie Beach is just lovely. A proper little seaside town come party town with loads of atmosphere. Our YHA is gorgeous so we are two happy bunnies! Airlie Beach, although lovely in it's own right with a lovely man made lagoon, nice walking and great little shops, is really the gateway for the Whitsunday Islands, rumoured to be among the most spectacular islands in the world, a rumour which is reflected in the cost of staying on the biggest of the islands, Hamilton island, a couple of thousand dollars per person per night!!

However, it is possible to do the trips slightly cheaper and we opted for a powered raft to be our transport of choice. Our first stop was to an inlet which offered views over the islands and surrounding sea which were undescribably beautiful, aqua sea like we have never seen before and sands so white they alomost hurt to look at. Next we headed down onto those white sands at Whitehaven beach View From Hill Inlet
View From Hill Inlet
 . Here we swam in warm pure aqua marine seas along with hundreds of fishes and our snorkles! I felt as if I was in a boutny advert the whole time, it is hard to believe that places this beautiful actually exist and you can actually visit them.

After some lunch we headed out to manta ray bay where we donned some very unattractive wetsuits, an underwater camera and our snorkels and went in search of the Great Barrier Reef. We didn't have to look far and we definately were not disappointed, the fish and the coral were unbelievable. We saw clams the size of you head and fishes of all colours sizes and patters, most of whom were very interested in our camera so we have lots of underwater shots!

This was such an amazing place, we would recommend it to all of you!
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