Tuesday, July 03, 2007

Airlie Beach and the Whitsundays

That's us just arrived in Brisbane this afternoon (After an 18 hour bus journey down!). Airlie Beach was very nice, very touristy but it had a nice lagoon and the weather was great. We stayed at a place called Bush Village, which was slightly out of town but quite nice. There were lots of Rainbow Lorikeets around which were very tame and shared our Breakfast with us!

Rainbow Lorikeet at Bush Village, Airlie Beach

We went out on a day trip to the Whitsundays and did some more snorkelling - it wasn't as good as Fitzroy island but still quite a lot to see. It turned out there was a Sea Snake in the water when we were in but thankfully it didn't get anyone! Then we got to Hill Inlet to look at the shifting sands of Whitehaven Beach - it was really amazing, the sea was clear as anything, you could even see the Stingrays in the water from the top of the hill! We got along to Whitehaven Beach then and got a few hours on the beach - it is a Silica Sand beach which is really fine sand.

Not much planned for Brisbane so far - going to go to a Koala Sanctuary at some point and possibly the Castlemaine XXXX Brewery - apparently there are lots of freebies!

Shifting sands from Hill Inlet



Me with Whitehaven Beach in the Background [Need to crop out the corner of the boat!]

3 comments:

Russell Manson said...

Very colourful - was it eggs for breakfast.

Derek and Heather said...

sounds like your having fun im just working on dissertation its very dull!! It looks like you are having good weather lovely blue skys certainly better than here we had hail stones last week!!

Anonymous said...

did you see the giant feet high pineapples at the farms dotted along the gold coast to advertise their fruit?