We're on the Bruce Highway again heading South from Townsville. We've enjoyed the time there - its a good place to hang out, and the sort of place you would enjoy living. Just a bit cut off from everywhere else!
Next stop is Airlie Beach, the stopping off point for Whitsunday Island cruises, and a lot more backpacker-y than Townsville. We only just make it through as the road in is flooded. Probably not the best idea to try and drive through as the water comes to the top of the tyres, and we think that it floated a little (!) but we made it - the hire car is always the fastest on the road and with our luggage weight, we were probably always going to be OK.
We've booked into a cabin which caters for all our needs - a fridge to keep the box of wine cold, a TV to watch our new addiction - The Biggest Loser, a swimming pool and a giant pillow to bounce on. Who would have thought that a children's playground could be so much fun?
The Whitsundays are a stunning group of forested islands with beautiful sandy beaches, and lovely to boat around. Hook Island also has the best snorkelling that we have encountered so far. Whitehaven Beach is the pick of the bunch - where the Bounty advert was filmed. Only problem round here are the stingers, once again, we're in the lovely lycra suits to go swimming to avoid getting stung.
Next stop on the East Coast is Emu Park, which we chose as a stop-off point to get from Airlie Beach to Hervey Bay so we could pop over to Gt Keppel Island. However, as we've been to some of the best island stop-offs that the East Coast has to offer, we decide instead to nail 80% of a 5l box of wine over the course of an evening, an spend the next day recovering. The furthest that we get is the next town along - Yeppoon - for its offerings of fast food. This area of coast - the Capricorn Coast is a bit more interesting with rocky wide sweeping beach coves, but not as developed as the past couple of stops. It was a good stopping off point, but there isnt a lot there to do, fortunately as we completely wasted a day!
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