Whitsunday Wanderings

Monday 22, September to Friday, 3 October 2014
We spent 4 nights at Bona Bay where we caught up with RQ and Tasmanian friends.

Big flathead from Bona Bay

On Wednesday, we headed back to Airlie Beach via a night at Olden Island which turned out to be a surprisingly good anchorage in the easterly breeze.

On Friday, Josh and Jo arrived at Hamilton and we motored around to Whitehaven Beach for their first night with us. A morning walk on the beach was followed by a quick trip to Windy Bay for a snorkel and lunch.

We then headed to Betty's Beach to climb to the lookout for the iconic Whitsunday photo of Hill Inlet.

Saturday night was spent in the beautiful Nara Inlet. On Sunday we walked up to the cave with Aboriginal art before heading to Black Island for some more snorkelling.

Sunday afternoon we sailed across to Airlie Beach marina so Josh and Jo could catch their morning flight from Proserpine back to Brissie. With perfect weather we packed a lot into their 3 days with us. Josh and Warren took lots of GoPro footage so keep an eye out for the movie.

Josh's newest toy - a GoPro gyro mount

Since leaving Airlie we have spent our nights at Stonehaven enjoying the sunsets while we snorkelled during the day. Blue Pearl Bay is still a good spot while Maureen's Cove has some good bombies but also a lot of dead coral, no doubt as a consequence of the last cyclone in this area.

We will stay in the Whitsundays until we get some northerlies so we can start to slowly head south. Print this post