Thursday Today we drove to Airlie Beach - the gateway to the Whitsundays. Airlie Beach is a very busy place and had a nice feel to it. On arrival at Airlie Beach there was a power cut for 3 hours - something that is a very common occurance in Queensland. The heavens also opened for most of the day - not great when you want to go sailing! We had ...

I stopped at Airlie Beach to do a cruise around the Whitsunday Islands. I'll talk more about it in the next entry. I just wanted to get the pin put on the map.

Airlie Beach My 2 night stay in Airlie Beach was quiet. I had to place my car in a secure car park some distance away from the backpackers, so didn't have it to explore the local area. Instead I spent time on the beach relaxing, reading another book and wandered the main street window shopping. My room at the backpackers had a television so it w...

It was a monster effort driving from Hervey Bay to Airlie Beach. Right through the night at a good speed as there is just no traffic. The only thing you have to be careful of is all the little wallaby heads popping up at the side of the road waiting for their chance to cross. By the looks of things though a lot of them take their chance at the w...

On the morning of our journey we picked up our hire car very early and started out on the 750 km drive down to Arlie Beach. The weather was a bit crazy and would pour down with torrential rain every half an hour or so. After one of these down pours we noticed a big crack down the centre of the windscreen. Needless to say we were really stressed ...

After Fraser Island Jen caught the overnight bus directly to Airlie Beach to pick up a sailing ship heading for the Whitsundays. We took to the road to drive up the coast staying overnight in funny place called Marlborough, consisting of two hotels and a handful of houses and a train track. We got a room for $35 each including breakfast, with AC...

well we r stil in airlie and its quite a nice size place bit like byron bay. enough pubs 2 get drunk til 4 am if u like but no skyscrapers and not a massive town. quite like it ere. mike has gone scuba diving on the GBR today however i didnt because 3 reasons, the main 1 being that my temporary padi diving license has expired, i tried to say cou...

Today I went skydiving. That's right, I voluntarily jumped out of the plane. People say it sounds like hard work, but I say, all it requires is one small step and gravity does the rest. It was a clear day over the Whitsundays as I boarded the plane. I was paired with this fat, balding, beer gutted man, who looked the antichrist of the ideal skyd...

After an overnight bus from Hervey Bay (Welcome to Dullsville...Population: You and those two old people over there) I arrived at Airlie Beach, the gateway to the Whitsunday Islands at 9:00 in the morning of the 29th. Airlie Beach is a seaside town built entirely on the money of sailing tourists. The bay itself is home to the Box and Irikundji J...

Checked back into YHA and went straight to bed for a while. Arranged to the meet the Meath guys later for a drink. Before heading out for the night, we checked up on the progress of our Didgeridoo. In the shop, Jay knocked over a stack of other people's didge's! Yikes! It was all OK though, none were damaged. Found ours eventually, and it looks ...