The Whitsundays!
This area was gorgeous...our boat was not, haha! It was still fun. We found ourselves on a booze cruise, with no booze, everyone else brought enough to satisfy a large frat house for a week. So we tried to avoid most of the unsavory characteres we met onboard, hahaha. Though we made a couple good friends, Derek from Dublin for one and Eric from Holland. So we hung out with them. The Whitsundays are a group of over 70 islands at the bottom of the Great Barrier Reef. Azure waters and green islands with white beaches. We went snorkeling a few times and even got to do a intro scuba dive. SCUBA is awesome! I deffinately will look forward to doing it again sometime. We saw all kinds of fish and it was all amoungst beautiful coral also teeming with all manner of anemone and the like. We made a trip to Whitehaven beach which is the most beautiful spot on the National Heritage protected bunch of islands they will take us to. The sand was a lot like the sand at a few of the lakes on Fraser Island, the stuff that looked like flour. We spent 2 nights on the boat, which were also interesting, being full of drunks. As it was the engine was running all the time, so that made it harder to sleep as well. The ipod was my only hope, and it served me well the second night. The food was better than I expected, I was full at every meal, which can be hard to do. All in all it was a great trip.