Airlie Beach Travel Blogs

This was my third trip to Queensland's Airlie Beach and a great chance to take some photos of the town. Airlie Beach is one of my favourite destinations in Australia because of its status as the gateway to the Whitsundays and Great Barrier Reef. This travel blog entry shows you some of the town and lagoon. Also shown is the Backpacker Hostel "Beaches" and on the other end of the scale "Coral Sea Resort".

Er waait een heerlijk briesje. Ik heb een prachtig uitzicht op een azuurblauwe zee met veel privebootjes. Ik ben nog wat moe en duf van gisterenavond. Ik heb mijn bagage tijdelijk opgeslagen want ik vertrek vanavond naar Cairns. In het internetcafe waar ik nu zit, is ook het reisbureau: Back…

Another early wakeup this morning, I woke up to Mariah Carey's "All I want for Christmas is You" playing on the speakers. Well actually, the first time I woke up at 6:30 was some Aussie guy over the CB radio calling out "Merry Christmas" to someone on another boat. It was then that I realized it wa…

The withheaven beach is so beautiful, the sand is so white,the water so blue and there is nothing but the nature!!!

4 week trip to Australia 15 dec tm 11 jan 08.

  Happy Birthday Grandmother! That was the only thing to think about. It was a very boring day. It was raining again and there was pretty much nothing to do. It's just a place for the beach. At 10am we had to check out but there were to many persons so we decided to take a breakfast somewhere…

Am Boot habe ich natürlich gut, wenn auch nicht zu lange geschlafen, Frühstück war schon recht früh und selbst am frühen morgen hat die Sonne schon ordentlich vom Himmel gebrannt. Nach dem Frühstück ging es gleich zu einer Bucht in einer anderen Insel zum Schnorcheln. Ins Wasser darf man in …

Having left the peace and quiet of Ayr this morning we've arrived in the hustle & bustle that is Airlie Beach. I can only equate it to what I remember Cairns being 9 years ago on our first visit, all the young beautiful people just lazy around topping up their tans. Our attempt to book any typ…

We spent New Years Eve in the company of our neighbours in the hostel and decided to have an aussie BBQ. There are free bbq points along the beach and so we purchased a variety of sausages and headed to the beach. It turned out that the variety of sausages were mainly Chilli flavour and so had to b…

K so since the last time I wrote we went from Byron Bay on a stupidly long bus ride up to surfers paradise where we danced the night away at a Club Crawl! Tons of fun had by all...free drinks do that apparently. And a bowling bar! Freakin awesome!!! Got some quality time int he sun at the beach...s…

We arrived intoAirlie Beach very bleery eyed after an overnight greyhound where they stopped for meal breaks every half an hour. We were picked up by our hostel at the bus stop and then had to be fast tracked through check in and onto the sailing company. We felt like we were going round the hous…

So not alot going ontoday, bagged a sunbed and slept in the shade, went out for dinner and a few quiet drinks, all very civilised!

Op 5 juli hebben we een dagtocht gemaakt naar de Whitsunday eilanden. Helaas niet gaan zeilen, maar de dagtocht was geslaagd, het weer viel erg mee. Soms wel bewolking, maar we mogen niet klagen. Onderweg hebben we gesnorkeld, naar een uitkijkpunt over het bekende Whithaven beach geweest en op dat …

I was up at 6am as Dean had to go to work  - he dropped me back at the hostel where I slept for another 2 hours.  Kerry and I were both really hung over so we staggered to town to try and eat lunch but it didn't go down too well.  We spent the afternoon sitting by the lagoon and stay…

Cairns is OVER. I had a good setup in Cairns, but i don't know, something just felt off--awkward. I think my hostess must have sensed the same thing because she asked how soon i'd like to go to the Whitsundays and the next day she had me all setup to catch a ride with her friend down to Airlie Beac…