Coffee and Sunsets: Whitsunday Islands

Sailing on the Whitsundays was definitely one of the highlights of our east coast trip. "Broomstick" is an ex-racing yacht that we were lucky enough to spend 3 days & 2 nights on. There were 26 of us and 3 crew members on a relatively small boat so it was pretty snug. We slept 6 to a cabin and ate all our meals on the top deck because there wasn't enough room beside the "kitchen". That being said, the food was sensational and we got as much coffee and teas as we wanted...mmm ;) Because the crew was so small we also got the chance to help put up the sails, so we got that true "sailing" experience!

Day 1 we took off from Airlie Beach around lunch and did some sailing to our first night's stop. In the morning we got to snorkel (very cool!) and made our way to White Haven Beach for a couple of hours in the afternoon. We should point out that White Haven Beach is the 6th prettiest beach in the WORLD- not hard to believe it! It did start to rain a little while we were there though, so we didn't get to lay on the white sand as long as we wanted. Later on that day we got to do a second snorkel. We saw TONS of cool tropical fish and even managed to find a sting ray!!

Nights on the boat were fun, they played fantastic music, we enjoyed some wine and we got to watch the crazy Italians on our boat do some dancing. On the last day we got the chance to do one more snorkel before we sailed back to Airlie.

All in all it was a great time, really relaxing and refreshing from all our bus travels! We were really lucky to have lots of sun for our trip which also made for some gorgeous sunsets :)

That evening, once we were back in Airlie, one of the backpacker hostels reserved us a table with free beer so we had one last chance to hang out as a group before we took off to Townsville.

Love and hugs,

L & L