Airley Beach - Whitsunday Islands

The people from the tour to Whitsunday Islands picked us up at 7:20, and straight ahead we jumped onto the sailing boat.

Weather was shit, moody and rainy, and at the contrary of the other 12 people aboard I loved it! In the tropics was the rainy season, one week before they had a cyclone, didn't touch Airley Beach, but there were some heavy rains and floods.

Anyway the 2 hours sailing were grey and rainy, but as soon as we arrive to Whitsunday Heaven Beach the sun came out, clouds didn't go anywhere but we had a beautiful moment of light.

I personally don't like 1 day tours, we were rushing to see everything with almost no time to enjoy, so we walked around the beach, flew the drone and started the walk to the lockout.

From the lookout the view was amazing, I had seen pictures of this island but I never imagine how beautiful actually it is.

Back down to the boat for lunch, and enjoy a bit of the air breeze around the islands.

After lunch we went for a snorkel, it wasn't the best dive I've done, choppy waters from the rainy season, and some dead coral, I can imagine in a good season this must be stunning.

Next we headed back to Airley Beach, and the wind picked up! So the captain and crew started to sail, real sailing, no motor!

That was fascinating! One of the moments of the day! It was really enjoyable to sail the waters without any other noise but the wind, such an awesome feeling.

As you can imagine we were a bit slower than the schedule and I loved it, not too late we arrived at the pier and back to the van.

The wettest inhabited place in New Zealand.

Mount Cook National Park

UNESCO Dark Sky Reserve