The Whitsundays

(Although we've already left!)

We spent a day on Maxi Ragamuffin - a 22 metre ex-racing yacht crusing through the Whitsunday islands. We only did a day as we're slightly pushed for time and also the thought of staying on a racing yacht might be nice, but there's not much room on them, so we went for a one day sail.

We sailed up to Hayman Island, apparently one of the most exclusive resorts on the planet, and went snorkelling in Blue Pearl Bay. Saw some more Nemo fish and some incredible 4 foot wrasse fish (which scared the hell out of us when they first came into vision). Apparently some people found a turtle to snorkel with, but we didn't find it. We did see one later on, just before we set sail back to Airlie Beach. The wind got up on the way back and the crew developed evil smiles on their faces, as it meant that they could properly hoist the mainsails, which we were all roped (bad pun) into. Rach hoisted the main sail and I had to lower the jib at the end of the trip. With the sails up the boat leant over to the deck, which was quite disconcerting to start with, but then the crew were saying that they've had half the boat in the water so there was no danger of the thing capsizing.

We've also passed through Rockhampton, learning to throw a boomerang in the process and getting a kilo of steak for $10! We're now in Hervey Bay, waiting to go to my island tomorrow (Fraser Island)

No piccies as once again, you can't upload anything on the computers we're using, sorry.

Some stats

Number of Turtles seen - 2 (Not clear if teenaged or indeed mutant)
Number of km's driven so far - 2150