Fri 7th Sept - Townsville to Airlie Beach

Continuing down south along the coast to Airlie Beach, I'm looking forward to seeing the Whitsunday islands and hopefully to do a bit of snorkelling. I tried checking in to the same B&B that Shane stayed at when he was here a few months ago, but they were booked out for the weekend. There's a triathlon here on Sunday and apparently there's a lot of people coming to take part. However I killed a few birds with one stone by going into one of the travel agencies here, got myself sorted with accomodation for the night and booked myself in for 2 day, 2 night sailing trip from tomorrow. The boat sails around the Whitsundays and stops at various spots for snorkelling. There's also the option of paying extra and doing a bit of diving. I was going to do two seperate day trips, one for seeing the Whitsundays, and another for snorkelling but this way I get the best of both worlds with the one trip. The boat doesn't go all the way out to the outer reef, it just stays near the islands, but for my first time snorkelling I'm sure it'll be just fine.