The next part of the trip was to go to the Whitsunday Islands. Even though only 400 miles from Cairns we were routed via Brisbane, 1000 miles south to go back 600 miles north. Still it was the only way. Now the Whitsunday Islands are off the north Queensland coast on the Great Barrier Reef. Hamilton Island where we were going has the only airport (if you can call it that) amongst the islands. Now many of you will know that I'm not particularly a keen flyer and I saw 4 aborted landings over the 4 days that we were there! The pilots have to guide themselves onto the landing strip!!!! Any cross winds or poor visibility and they try to land when they can or get re-routed to Mackay! Worrying - but a stewardess did tell me that this could occur! Glad that I wasn't on the plane that approached the run way and took off just before it took off again! Still we managed 1.5 days of sun but then came the monsoon. Those of you who have either been to Thailand or have been in monsoon rains will sympathise that there isn't really much you can do apart from stay inside! Still, given the gruelling travel itinery H was happy to sit and read a book and L was doing domestic chores to keep himself occupied!
A view from the top of Hamilton Island. You will notice that we were trying to judge how many inches on the waist we have put on, to date!
A view of the Resort complex - big hotel, only beach on the island and swimming pools. We lived about 10 minutes away by buggy - oh forgot to mention that we could only use golf buggies to drive around the island! A bit of a different size to Mitsi!
The one occasion we managed to get into a nice restaurant - this picture shows our gourmet starter!
Well, Lee did not believe me when I said that the wasabi (japanese horseradish) was strong! He was about to explode! Serves him right - was extremely funny though!
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