Airlie Beach

Tuesday 15th

On the drive to Airlie Beach, we had seen a couple of signs for Whitsunday Gold Coffee which was one minute past the turn off to Airlie Beach so thought we'd drop in. Well, what a find, the lady there (whose name we will get tomorrow when we stop in again) was a mine of information regarding the trip to Cape York as she and her family had just arrived back a few days prior. The coffee was also fantastic so if you find yourself anywhere near this place drop in, oh, and the Lime cheesecake was pretty special too!

We arrived into the Big 4 Adventure Whitsunday at a reasonable time (for a change) and had everything set up before it got dark! It was still a reasonable drive, around 3 and a half hours but seemed to go fairly quickly.

The big change we've noticed is while the days are still similar temp, the nights are much more pleasant and we no longer have to wear all of our clothes to bed and the kids are down to just one sleeping bag. In about a week or so I reckon we'll be complaining of it being too hot at night!

Wednesday 16th

Today we spent regrouping and catching up on some washing as well as enjoying the fact we didn't have to rush off anywhere. We did wander into town for a walk along the Bicentennial Walk and to check out the beach and Lagoon. The water is a very nice aqua colour and right now, even though it's a bit cool, you can swim however in summer it's full of stingers so not so pleasant then. There is also a pool in the centre of town (called the Airlie Beach Lagoon) which is where people can swim even during the stinger season.  Most of the towns up here seem to have these pools in their centre for this reason.  The one here is pretty big and even has Life Guards.
Downtown was full of backpackers and looks like it would have a pretty good nightlife but we were happy to head back to the campground for some very good fish and chips from Fish D'vine.

Tomorrow it's off to Paronella Park which will be around an 8 hour drive which everyone is looking forward to, or perhaps not.

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