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Our sailing trip of the Whitsunday Islands was for 2 days and 2 nights, which basically meant one full day and two halves. We booked it through the same tour as our Fraser Island trip - Koalas. We didn't set of until early afternoon the next day. While we were waiting for the briefing we had to go and hire our stinger suits. They're kind of like wet suits, only much thinner, and are meant to protect you from jelly fish in the sea. Once we had sorted all our stuff out we had the welcome meeting where we were given our room keys and our snorkels. There were us 8 going plus the others we met on Fraser island. That made 12 altogether which was good because we got two rooms to ourselves. After the meeting we walked from the hostel up to the harbour to get on the boat. It was a bit of a hot journey but we were all looking forward to the trip. We had booked to go on the 'Pride of Airlie', but because there were so may people they ended up taking two boats and we were on the Pride of Airlie Blue, or the 'Kora.' This was alot better because this was only a slightly smaller boat, but there were a lot less people on it so there was loads more space. We didn't really do much on the first day; just sailed straight to South Molle Island where we spent the nights. We decided to do a trip where we didn't have to sleep on the boat because that would probably make me feel a bit sick! The journey took a couple of hours so we still saw a lot of the other islands and had time to have a couple of drinks on the boat.
When we arrived on South Molle Island we were shown around the resort and then checked into the rooms. The island where we were staying was really pretty but the rooms were quite basic - our bathroom didn't even have a door! It didn't matter though because we just dumped our things and pretty much went straight down to the bar. We had steak and salad for dinner which was quite nice. All the food for the weekend was included, which was good because we didn't have to worry about any of that. The first night was really good and everyone had a brilliant time. There was happy hour for about two hours, and they put on some drinking games and things. It was great fun!
We all had an early start the following morning. Breakfast was 6.30 to 7 am and we had to be on the jetty to leave at 7.15. Apparantly if we were late they would leave without us, but we didn't end up leaving until 8 anyway. We travelled around the islands for a bit on the way to our first stop, which was Whitehaven beach on Whitsunday Island. Eveyone was feeling a bit delicate from the night before, including myself, so I was glad when we stopped on dry land. Whitehaven Beach is beautiful and one of the most famous parts of the Whitsundays. It is a shame that it doesn't look quite a spectacular when you're there as it does on the postcards, mainly because it is so big. It was still nice though and we were there for a couple of hours. We sunbathed for a bit even though it was a bit cloudy. The sand there is the whitest, purest sand I have ever seen and the beach is really famous for it. The boys went snorkelling even though there wasn't much reef to see, but they did see a turtle and a stingray!
to be continued..........
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