After spending quite a few nights at Rollingstone (very hard to leave) we charged further down the coast stopping at the big Mango at Bowen and taking in the views.
Our next stop over however was Airlie Beach. It is a very beautiful area yet very developed and backpackers everywhere.
Here's Jarrod just hanging around the beach boardwalk. They have built a free public pool along the front parkland and it was very much like the one at Cairns. Again its on video!!!
As we arrived here before the school holidays (QLD) there were some really good deals to some of the other islands in the Whitsunday island group. We got on one that cost $205 for the four of us. We hopped on a bus at 6.55am from the caravan park, took a ride to shute habour where we got on a boat, had some toast onboard, went to Hamilton Island for half the day, hire a golf buggy and terrorised the island for a few hours, hopped back on the boat for a trip to whitehaven beach and BBQ lunch on board, watched quite a few people turn a shade lighter from sea sickness (it was a little rough) and then returned via shute habour and bus at 6pm. Big day but very good value.
Here's Jarrod at Shute Harbour where we got on our boat for the islands.
Here's Leah (formly Darl in the caravan park), being cuddled by a dugong!!!
Guess who was the first in the water at whitehaven beach!!!!!!!!!! Claire being dunked by the same Dugong that was cuddling Darl, whoops Leah.
Didn't take long for the others to follow!!!
Well Leah's toes anyway!!!
I would be lying if I said it was warm, nice in the sun but the breeze was chilly when wet!!
Here's our lift!!! This is the boat we toured around on and had an unreal BBQ lunch on.
It was a great day and the kids loved the buggy on Hamilton Island (great place and very well designed/layout and would be a great short destination although I dare say expensive)
Whitehaven beach is very beautiful and the sand is very, very fine. You can polish jewellery
its so fine, so we did our rings !!!!
I bet Oprah didn't have a swim !!!!
Or get cuddled by a Dugong for that matter!!!!!!!!
Well on we go from Airlie beach (not really our cup of tea), towards Gladston where we thought we'd take a look at except the place looked like a massive mining town, rainy and very windy so we headed out to a place could Tannum Sands. It was a very beautiful place yet still a little windy so we pressed on to Yeppoon!!!
Yeppoon is very beautiful as well and the weather here hadn't improved. It was very, very windy. It was also the first place we had seen with waves for more than 2 months so we were all very excited. Well I was very excited!!!................... and decided that everyone should come with me looking for waves to surf!!!!!!!!!!!. Well after 20 minutes of driving down a horribly bumpy, rough, muddy track to nowhere (an exposed beach actually), the surf was very ordinary. We asked a bloke driving on the beach how he got there so we could avoid the same rough track back to town. Great move and it was a highlight of our stay at Yeppoon. The beach drive was great as it was smooth as a babies ....forehead and I could check all the sand banks along the way back to town.
Notice the grey skies and jacket!!!!! It's getting colder. In the background is where we beach drove.
Well from here we head to 1770 and Agnes Waters so stay tuned!!!!!!!
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