The pirate ship that was anchored across the bay from us, just beautiful!

May 17

Location: Airlie Beach/ Whitsunday Islands

I was all ready to leave on my sailing trip this morning, I showed up at the office of the sailing company for 9:30 and was then told that this was just a check in and I didn't have to get on the boat until 12:30! Sometimes being left with several hours of free time isn't that great!

Madison and I ran into each other at the internet cafe luckily and spent the rest of the morning on the beach.

When I finally got onto the boat I was surprised by how nice and friendly everybody was. I was one of 25 passengers on a boat called Wings 3, a brand new boat that has only been in the water for 3 weeks!

That first day I was easily convinced to go scuba diving at a place called Luncheon Bay where I saw lots of clown fish (Nemo's) and other really cool fish and corals! In the evening the crew had put together a slide show of all the pictures they had taken that day as well as they gave us a history of the islands and we saw the top 50 underwater photographs that they've taken in the last 2 years. Later in the evening there were a few friendly dolphins that came to the back of our boat as our lights attracted the feeder fish.

The bunks in the room I slept in on the boat

The tiny tiny bathroom. This picture was taken purely to show you all how small it is.