It was still a bit cloudy when we woke but strong winds soon blew away the clouds and the beautiful Whitsunday's turquoise sea was at its best. An exciting morning's sail took us to the famous Whitehaven Beach one of the most beautiful beaches in the World. The sand is white silica that reflects the sun so never gets hot and is really fine -awesome. The views from the lookout over the beach and sea were just amazing It really was one of the most spectacul...

Our sailing trip was booked for the afternoon so we had time for a relaxing morning after an early morning run. We met at the allocated tome and place and met our sailing companions for the next 2 days. It's was a multinational collection Spanish, German, French, Mauritian and two other English, an older couple were similar age to ourselves who were Kiwis now living in Australia. We set sail and watched dark clouds build and the winds really blew making som...

We spent a lot of time deciding where to go next, the trouble was there was not many places of interest between Yeppoon and Airllie Beach. Airlie Beach is the gateway to the Whitsunday Islands, so we decided to set off early and go there to sort out some sailing, as sailing in The Whitsundays is in my "1000 things to do before you die."Australian roads are pretty boring, we did see a lot of dead kangaroos today but I was desperately looking for one hopping acros...

We quickly explored 1770 in the morning, seeing the Captain Cook memorial. The Australians are quite into their little bit of history, and places are all named after historical characters or people, there seemed to be loads of Graham Streets , but I have yet to find a Judith Street. We drove up to Rockhampton which is right on the Tropic of Capricorn and immediately found the tourist information. The people in tourist information places are all retired folk who ...

We were up early to be disappointed that the whale watching trip had been cancelled. Apparently it was too windy and rough, and as there are few whales left in the area the chances of seeing them was very low.We headed off up north driving through some agricultural land but mainly miles of forests. We stopped briefly in Bundaberg which Graham thought was famous for its cake but is in fact famous for rum and ginger beer. We sampled the ginger beer but not the rum....