Up the ali: Whitsunday tour part 1

So I've been hinting and teasing about this one, and finally it's time to blog about it. For those of you not in the know, whitsunday is a bunch of 40+ Islands just off the coast by airlie beach. It's also home to the best beach in oz and the worlds 2nd best beach (more on that in part 2). It's pretty famous and a massive tourist draw, so there are a lot of organised tours to go out and see them on boats. Ours was a tour called avatar, and I have no idea why that name, I'm just grateful we didn't chose the other option called spank me!

This was our boat, the only commercial sailing Trimaran for this type of tour, this means nothing to me other than it had massive trampolines on each side of the boat (sorry pip). These pictures are also borrowed from their website as I haven't grown my Australian wings quite yet. All the others are mine though.

So we set off on our trip, meeting at the harbour to get together with the whole group.

With our minimal luggage, was so nice to leave the beast backpack at the hostel and go light.

We met our deck hand for the trip, who met us in tiger slippers... And headed to the boat, we ended up with a double berth in the central part of the part. Our little area for the next couple of days.

Before we knew it we had set sail for our first spot, a little snorkelling. Not before we managed alottle light lunch. No photos of any food for this blog but boy it was pretty tasty considering it was all prepared in a tiny kitchen on a boat.

Sun was shining and we got our tan on for a while on deck.

Such a hard life and yes the deck hand is wearing a top hat, he liked his quirky outfits.

So to snorkelling, no water pics as it wasn't too clear in the sea but we did have to wear some snazzy stinger suits (to protect form jelly fish, over 400 types and some are killers).

The day after that passed it a flash and before we knew it we had anchored up for dinner and the night. We were in a pretty cool spot full of turtles and every now and then you would see a little black blob, it's head, come up for air. Kinda cool. There's one somewhere in the below pic, good luck trying to spot as even I'm struggling with it.