After leaving the town of 1770 we began the long drive to airlie beach - 9 hours drive away!! We drove and we drove and we drove through a whole lot of nothingness (except the cows) and we drove some more....
Airlie beach is a small buzzing town close to the Whitsunday islands and the Great Barrier Reef. We stayed in a campsite voted top campsite in Queensland - it had a massive pool with slides, tennic courts, mini golf plus more! We stayed in Airlie beach topping up our tan for 4 days before embarking on our Whitsunday adventure! Emma got bitten an amazing 88 times (Sam counted!!!) by horible sandflies:(
Our boat was called the Alexander Stewart. A sailing boat that took 17 years to build in someones back garden. http://www.tallshipadventures.com.au/webpage.php?wp=Alexander%20Stewart It was an incredible journey which we shared with 16 others from around the world. Though are rooms were pretty small (to say the least), the food, wine, trip, snorkling, whitehaven beach, star gazing, helping out with the sails was absolutely incredible and possibly the highlight of our whole trip. We met some really nice people from Denmark, Germany, France and Hertfordshire!
During our snorkelling trips in the great barrier reef we had to wear stinger suits. These highly attractive suits look like wetsuits but are made from lycra. We had to wear them because it is jellyfishg season - box jelly fish and the irukandji, 2 of the most deadly jellyfish around! The latter of which is about 2cm long, invisible to the human eye and can kill you - nice!
After disembarking the boat we were swaying for the rest of the day (we are not destined to be sailors!!!) After one more night in Airlie Beach which we spent with ppl we met on the boat we left for our next destination - Townsville.
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