Sailing the Whitsunday islands

We are just waiting at the airport for our flight to brisbane. We are unsure whats in store for the next few days bc of the terrible floods in the Queensland state, which is where we are headed. North and west of brisbane has already been affected and we are debating leaving for new Zealand earlier if it gets any worse. Keep you posted. A few people was died and a bunch missing. If its not on the news in canada, YouTube the videos bc they are pretty scary.

We went on a sailing trip around the Whitsunday islands which are a group of 74 islands, the most famous one being Whitsunday island and specifically Whitehaven beach! White haven beach was the most gorgeous beach we've ever seen with sand that is 99% silica and the whitest and softest sand you've ever seen and felt. We lucked out bc although its the rainy season in this part, we didn't get any but the heat on Whitehaven beach was so intense that at times you felt like you were in a desert! Poor Adam - there wasn't any shade on the beach at all! There were some awesome people on our boat and thank god most people were also in our age range. Some people were traveling for a month like us and others for 10 months! It's only a dream to ever think we'd we able to travel for that long and still have a job when we got back. We all went out after the sailing trip as well which was nice. I'm not going to lie - the sleeping situation and bathrooms abroad the boat could have definitely been better. The boat we went on was called Siska with 20 ppl which we booked through Peter pan travel. Apparently koala adventures is a good one too but more days than we had and we were told that it's an extreme party which is obviously not what Adam and I wanted. There were far more options for 2 day and 2 night trips and there are also fewer trips leaving on Sundays. Besides that, food was good and company was great! Snorkeling was fun as well but less visibility than in cairns. I saw a stingray this time and a few really big fish! We also saw some turtles and the highlight was the dolphins that hung out around our boat all evening. So cute! There is so much to see and do in Queensland!

We met up with Omar and Melissa in Townsville and they drove up to airlie beach with us. It was great to see them and catch up! They were great company for our psycho drive - there was a Crazy lightning storm with no rain or thunder. The lightning literally went on every 2-4 sec for at least 2 hrs. Even the locals were weirded out by what was happening and videotaped it. If Omar and Melissa weren't there, I don't think Adam would have let us drive through it alone.

If anyone reading this has any info on nz south island, please email me bc I only bought the north island travel guide and if we are forced to leave early, we will have time to see both north and south islands.

Next post from Byron bay or new Zealand! We already got screwed on our prepaid hotel in noosa and the rest of our hotels this week are prepaid.