That morning found us sleepily disembarking at 5:30am after a long night and not very much sleep at all on my part. Good thing we unloaded in paradise, rainbow and all. We were in Airlie beach, and at this funny little beachy area with lots of palm trees and cockatoos.
We were given breakfast here, and some free time to wander around since we had gotten there a little early. Being that it was so early, nothing was open around town though, so basically there was suddenly a mass of 50 raggedy looking college students bumbling sleepily around the sidewalks lol. Me and Katie walked around by the water for a little bit too, communing with the cockatoos a bit, and then walked thorugh the market which was starting to be set up.
From there we were taken to another hostel where we changed again, packed 3 days worth of stuff in our smaller bags, stored our big bags, and took off again to meet our ride for the day - high speed rafts. We boarded up, split up over two boats, and headed out for the Whitsunday Islands.
It was a lot of fun, except that every now and then it would start raining on us, which really hurts at 60kph lol. We dropped our overnight bags at South Molle Island, where we would spend 2 nights, and took off again. Despite the shoddy weather, the scenery was absolutely beautiful. Unfortunately I didn't have my camera with me because I was too scared I was going to get it really wet. We reached Whitehaven Island and took a short hike up to a lookout point so see the famous beach there.
We walked down to the beach, which wasn't as white as normal due to the recent cyclone coming through, but it was really a cool spot. Apparently due to the composition of the sand it never gets hot either. We boarded back on the boats there and took a quick trip to a different beach where we spent a few hours eating, playing games, and lounging. More people probably would have gone swimming except that they informed us that it was jellyfish season, and that sort of put everyone off of the water... lol. I personally spent a lot of the time taking a nap on the sand since I was running off of no sleep.
Our ride home was fun and at full-tilt, with the two boats bantering and racing. That was when I was glad I didn't bring my camera since the other boat managed to send us a deluge or two. We said goodbye to our skipper back at Molle Island, and checked in to our rooms. Took an amazing shower, had some time to rest, and went to dinner. That night was a lot of fun with the Beach-themed party, which of course ended in a late night swim in the pool.
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