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When we got to airlie beach we spent a week in a holiday park in a lovely cabin, then we moved up to a hostel in town to do our whitsunday sailing. Airlie beach is lovely and one of our favourite places so far. the town is always busy with travellers and there are lots of amazing cafes and of course the gorgeous lagoon. its a huge fresh water swimming lagoon that is quite deep in some parts, everyone just lazes around the lagoon and sleeps on towels on the grass, very relaxing. we spent many afternoons there! the evening before we went sailing we checked in with our sailing company who also gave us our stinger suits to protect us from the deadly jellyfish!
the morning of our sailing we made our way around to the marina, met our group of 15 and boarded the boat. it was an 85ft maxi racing sailing boat called anaconda II and we had a double cabin below deck. we set off and on our first day we went to the top of the 74 whitsunday islands and stopped off for a snorkle. it was fantastic, there are parts of the great barrier reef around the whitsundays so there was lots of coral. the crew made us a great lunch then we set of saling again. the weather was sunny and we sat up on deck reading our books. we pulled into a small inlet and we had a bbq dinner, a swim (with our lovely stinger suits on!) and then fell asleep with all that sea air making us tired! the next day we set off again around the islands, the scenery was beautiful! we stopped at another inlet and got dropped off one side of a small island, we walked through the rainforest of the island to the other side which brought us out to hill inlet. we took lots of pictures and it was very beautiful here, you could see onto whitehaven beach aswell, lovely. we did a drift snorkles today where the boat drops you off on one side of the island and you get taken by the current as you snorkle and get picked up the other side of the island! later we set off around the bottom of the islands and pulled into an inlet where we got dropped off at south mole island resort. here we had dinner and joined lots of other people who were on sailing trips and had an evening of dancing and drinking games before getting back on the boat at midnight, about 18 of us squeezed into a small rib boat (very close to the water with the weight!!) tonight we all brought our mattresses up on deck and slept under the stars as the cabins were too hot!
the next day, our last day, we sailed up to the top of the islands again, did some more snorkling, we saw some huge fish, then we sailed back to airlie beach at were back on land about 4pm. we had such a great time, we were swaying for the whole evening as if we were still on the boat, it was funny!
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