Airlie Beach

A very full, overnight bus-ride later, and Ash and I are in Airlie Beach, the gateway to the WhitSundays islands. And we have officially arrived in the tropics. It's a balmy 75 degrees by 10am, we've had a coffee and are ready for a hard day of sunbathing. We drop off our bags a the hostel, put on our suits and head down to the Airlie Lagoon. We lay our town down on the mini pebbles (man-made lagoon = no sand....just small pebbles that are sand color.), and don't budge for the next 5 hours. Absolute magic. I finished a book, Ash wrote a book, and we both come away looking quite a bit more tan. We grocery shopped, picked up a few things at the chemist (pharmacy) and headed back to the hostel for some quality laundry time.

As our laundry was finally getting clean (we were smelling all kinds of rank after Fraser Island), we had a dinner of pineapple, paw paw, strawberries and potato chips. Delicious and nutritious....We concluded our day of rest with a bottle of wine down at the lagoon.