With our reef trip booked for tomorrow we decided to check out a couple of local bays with our spare day. Conway and Wilson called to us. We spent the morning in Frank on the more remote areas of the state. At Conway we stumbled across a pretty much untouched kilometre or so of perfect beach. Deciding we needed to earn our lunch we started walking. The untouched sand gave us a perfect canvas for a couple of messages in the sand,with a very large stick! As we mad...

Day 6 - And Then It Rained! And then it rained, all night long, heavy too. Fortunately getting up before 7am means lots of day left even if it does rain until 10am! By the time we has showered, had a cuppa, booked our Whitsunday snorkel tour and headed to Airlie for the market the sun had once again come out to play. After exploring the market we headed along the costal path to the marina, where the rich and famous moor their yachts. Very posh! Lunch consis...

Day 5 - Enter the Horsefly! After our busy day on Maggie we knew we had a fair old drive to get to Airlie Beach on Friday. Can't believe we've been away from home for nearly a week already. We took the Bruce HW for a laid back 3.5hr drive to Airlie. Helen saw 3x wild camels, holly missed them as she was napping. It's amazing how quickly the landscape changes, one minute it can be as flat as the fens and then next were in between peaks. As we get close to Airli...

Day 4 - Magnetic Island Early rise again, which is becoming a habit. We pottered for the first hour, cup and tea, breakfast, did some laundry and tidied Frank up and then showered; we were finally ready for the day ahead and our destination of Magnetic Island. We stopped by a retail park to purchase a new iPad cable. The park was huge, immense in scale. Like the Beehive Centre only 10x larger and less stressful too! We caught the ferry to Maggie Island. Pri...

Day 3 - Paradise Found OMG the birds are loud here! Totally different (very tropical) bird song and early too, way before sunrise. Awake once again before 5am. So what do you do when you are both awake at 5am on the west coast of Australia and sun isn't up yet?? Well you walk the 20m to the beach and wait.....there is residual morning light from the imminent arrival of the sun, enough to have attracted some life to the beach front; 1 jogger, 1 couple walking do...