Again the anchor woke us up at daft o clock this morning, we decided not to bother with the 'sunrise dive' this morning due to already doing more diving than we planned and being half asleep and not really wanting to jump into a freezing cold ocean with a heavy scuba unit on our backs! It was a very choppy ride back to the mainland with quite a few people feeling a little sea sick! The plan was to get straight into Frank and head to Townsville today, but we were...

Another chilled out morning by the ice pool, where Dave lost miserably at a game of tennis with a guy we've met here. This was then followed by a sports afternoon playing table tennis, badminton, basketball and the best bit, a giant jumping pillow! Apart from all the kids we had to avoid standing on, it was pretty good fun - definately thinking about having one in our back garden anyway! Bbq and beers at night followed by State of Origin rugby on the big scree...

Due to a screaming child in a nearby tent from 3am onwards we didn't get much sleep last night! Charlotte slept through it though in the car! Relaxed by the ice pool for the morning and had a quick look in the town to sort our tickets out for the boat. We had a game of mini golf where David clinched the victory on the very last hole securing the extra sausage we had for tea! We had a quiet night in the park having our bbq and playing cards.

Again, back in the car off up to Airlie Beach. Only 3 hours away, with a detour at Eungella National Park, so it wasnt too bad. Eungella is famous for the resident platypus' who live in Broken River, did we see one...no! Had a look for one, but no luck, just a few turtles. After a short walk around the rainforest, taking in the amazing views from the mountain side, we had a picnic and set off for Airlie Beach. On the way we stopped at a tourist information o...