Whitsundays Adventure

Time to catch up on lots of tales I guess so I'll start with the Whitsundays . . . . they are beautiful islands just off Airlie Beachand they have heaps of Cumbrian names such as Whitehaven Beach, Brampton Island, Wigton Island. Its like a mini Cumbria but a 1000 times nicer!!!!
We headed off on the British Defender for 3 days of sailing. The majority of our boat were Irish so we were guaranteed a booze cruise too!!!
We helped to put up the sails and found a great place to snorkel in our stinger suits. Tested out the old water proof camera too (as some of you have since found out!)
We spent one afternoon on Whitehaven Beach, where the sand is so soft and cool its like flour. There are heaps of stingray here too, in groups of about 30, swimming along the edge of the beach so everyone was very hesitant to go in . I also spotted a sand shark in the shallow waters too but I wasn't scared . . . . especially as it was only about 50cm long!!!
We also found a different location to snorkel which was amazing. They told us that there was a big fish there named Elvis and when I saw him he was huge!!!! about a metre long with massive fat lips and he followed the boat everywhere it went.
I was in the water when the second boat load of snokellers came out and I heard loads of screaming and thought maybe somone wasn't warned about Elvis, but no, it was other people who had brought bread and throwing it in around the snorkellers so the fish were going crazy in their hundreds! It was hilarious, so I got myself right in there, with all the fish swimming into me. It was great just like being in a fish tank.
Some of the time on the boat it absolutely poured down too, but gotta remember I was in tropical paradise so a few of us decided to just stay out on the top deck in our bikini's and brave it. I'm pleased we did too as we saw 3 huge turtles and some jellyfish. Well worth freezing for an hour for!!!