Judy & Brian Tour Oz

Airlie Beach Week 1 Leaving Townsville at a respectable hour, we drove out of town and onto the very lamentable Bruce Highway for 3 1/2 hours of bashing and crashing our way down the goat track to Airlie Beach. We finally made it to Bowen, and as we were still stuck behind something or other travelling at 85, we considered taking luncheon, but then at the critical moment, they all turned into town, so we kept on going. Apart from a rogue ratbag truck driver who attempted to run us and another van off the road, it was ‘uneventful’. Finally we are here The Big 4 Adventure Whitsunday Resort at Cannonvale. As Cannonvale and Airlie Beach are almost the same place, we'll just call it Airlie Beach. Judy is finally in her favourite caravan park and we have been for a swim and been to the food shops and had a wine and all is right with the world. But what to do? There are the magnificent Whitsunday Islands of course, and Whitehaven Beach, but we've been to them all and frankly, are ...

*** Happy Birthday Paul *** Who's a cutie then? Made our way down to Airlie Beach, negotiating the non-stop road-work from Townsville to Ayr – they may even be duplicating the Bruce in places, one can only hope so. We thought we’d go into Bowen and find a nice place by the water for lunch, all we found were empty streets as it was after 12 noon on a Saturday. Finally we found the bakery and had our choice of 1 pie and cake, but hurry, they closed at 1pm, even while other lost vans were prowling around looking for a feed that didn’t involve large yellow ‘M’s. Our van park is actually at Cannonvale, about 2km from Airlie Beach itself and is excellent by van park standards. It even has a … heated … pool, which needless to say was full of people swimming and sunbaking and generally having a good time. Can you imagine that, a van park providing amenities that you can actually use, what will they think of next? We grabbed a few brochures on day trips and now can’t decide w...