Whitehaven Beach

Today we took a tour to the beautiful Whitehaven Beach.  It was a great trip with Fantasea off Hamilton Island, they served us lunch and afternoon tea which was yumm-o.  The scenery was fantastic on the way to Whitehaven and it just got even better once we landed.

As you can see the water is just unbelievably beautiful and clear.. the sand is so so fine and pristine.  Unfortunately it was a tad bit windy, so it made it hard to read or even lie on the beach without being covered in a fine blanket after 10 minutes!  Justin and his dad gave the metal detector's a swing with no luck - can't win them all I guess.

This is me giving the underwater camera a go (it's my housemate's camera, so I was super paranoid about dropping it in the water!).  If anything is a testament to how much wind there was, it's my hair right there.. outrageous!

This is Justin with a starfish he found in the water.  The photo doesn't show it, but this guy had really really bright red, nasty looking spikes on him.  It was really cool seeing such a big one up close and in the wild!  (The starfish of course, not Justin).  

I wish I could say the trip back was as nice as the trip to Whitehaven, but the wind really picked up and it suddenly become Hurlsville for me (I'm not great with boats that are moving around a lot).  But all in all I really loved Whitehaven and would love to go back there in the summer sometime. :)

Holidays - Moreton Island

My boyfriend and his father have an addiction - treasure hunting.  They won't see anyone about this 'gold fever' which is sometimes a good thing - because I score some pretty sweet trips out of their obsession.  Today's blog entry is about our trip to Moreton Island!

We caught the car ferry from Brisbane Harbour to Tangalooma Resort.  It's a great place, bit of trivia: one of the Scooby Doo films was filmed on the island!  All the places to stay are right on the beach, so it's literally like a 1 minute walk straight onto sand, wonderful! And of course you can always see the beautiful sunrise/sunset from your balcony.

Moreton Island is also home to a lovely lake called Blue Lagoon.  We had great success with the metal detectors there, I even found my first ring!  A lovely little silver ring with possibly a diamond in it - Very exciting!

But the coolest part was getting to feed the dolphins that come to feed every night at Tangalooma.  Our dolphin 'Echo' was really gentle and it was lovely to see them up close like that!