Day 111, The Whitsundays: Airlie Beach and Shute Harbor

The third day of the cruise when we arrived at our first port of call: Airlie Beach, we watched the moon set behind the coastal mountains.  It was quite beautiful.

This was a private residence that had their own boardwalk that overlooked the ocean.  Lucky lucky rich folks.  We pretended not to see the sign and followed along it for a little ways to check out the view.

Apparently Australia is the land of giant bugs.  That, my friends, is a grasshopper that is a third of the size of my foot.

Ally and I decided to go kayaking in this area and check out Shute Harbor which was three different islands.  This is a magnificent selfie that Ally took while I labored in the back of the kayak paddling for both of us haha.

This was the first beach we stopped at on an island, it was a rocky. It was also the first island we stopped at.

Found this little guy chilling by the forest.  Apparently, this spider is one of the most common in Australia.

We don't know if this is coral or a flower thingy or what but we thought it was pretty cool so we snapped a photo of it.

This is a sea sponge coral thing that looks like a brain.  Ally found it, she is so good at finding things.

This is the second island and it was ok, not the greatest beach in the world but the water was clear.  We had a good view of the mainland.

We never landed on the third island, we kayaked by it.  Good thing we did because we found this beautiful beach on the mainland about 15 minutes away from where we disembarked.  The sand was white, soft, and the water was clear and warm.

There were coconuts on the trees.  Here is all three phases. The outer shell, the inner shell, and then coconut.  Too bad I hate coconuts haha.  This one smelled rotten too. Cracking it open was fun however.

Ally enjoying the water.

The kayak resting onshore.  This was the nicest beach I have been to if I do say so myself.

After kayaking we went to the main part of town and they had a lagoon for people to enjoy swimming in.  It overlooked the airlie beach harbor and was right next to the town.

Here is a picture of our cruise ship docked at sea.  It was a wonderfl day spent at the Whitsundays.