Hi everyone, Yesterday we went on a Whitsunday Islands cruise, the nice people at FantaSea (our new friends in Airlie Beach) picked us up first thing in the morning to take us to the local harbour. From there we boarded our fabulous huge catamaran, for tea and toast and the first leg of our journey - to Hamilton Island. Hamilton Island is populated by Golf Buggies, with a small number of human vistors who are allowed to take them for a ride around the island fo...

Hi everyone Had a fabulous day yesterday. Cruised out through the Whitsunday Islands to the Great Barrier Reef. We went with a company called Fantasea - would highly recommend them! They have 2 permanent pontoons out there that have been there for the last 19 years. They now have coral growing on them and they are no longer allowed to move them as they are protected as part of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Conservation Zone! At the pontoon they have a semi subm...

Hi everyone! We arrived in Airlie Beach yesterday after the slowest bus journey ever. Greyhound apparently, Dachshund more like. We checked into a campground/hostel/nightclub, pitched our tent (after repairing it.. again), and went out to see what Airlie had to offer. Mainly fish. We found ourselves in a nautical themed bar/restaurant called Shipwrecked, and worked our way through the stack of information we had collected from Dumb and Dumber at the tourist i...