Hello and welcome to our first blog! We are presently waiting for our boat to depart to spend 2 days and 2 nights sailing around the Whitsunday Islands...there has been a huge rainstorm and it's only just stopped, but it's already sunny again so bring on the tan!! Apparently we can help to sail if we like. We shall see! Don't know if either of us would make such good sailors! So, going back to when we arrived last Friday...we flew into Cairns on the North-East ...

We're really bad at updating this and are so far behind...sorry!! So we last left you as we were about to go on our Whitsunday sailing trip for 3 days and 2 nights... Together with our bags, we were completely soaked by the time we even got to the boat itself thanks to a lovely storm! We met the rest of our group on the boat (28 people and 4 crew) who were all really great, which is good as the boat was very very cosy - Debra and i supposidly had a 'double' bed ...