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Sunday, July 19, 2009
Saturday, July 18, 2009
Hulk 1 - Amy and Jesse 0
We managed to look the keys in the car and surprisingly it was a lot harder to get into than you'd think. Although we're not career criminals so maybe that had something to do with it.
We're in mission beach for 2 nights now.
Oh and I cuddled a koala, an aligator, a blue tongue lizard , a wombat, a wallabe, and a spikey dragon today! I must say the koala was the cutest although the wallabe and wombat were pretty cute as well.
Amy
Friday, July 17, 2009
Thursday, July 16, 2009
Magnetic island
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View of magnetic island from The Strand in Townsville.
Unfortunately, we will not make it to Magnetic island, it's supposed to be beautiful and have a whole bunch of critters, but we're time strapped among other things and will be missing it.
It was named Magnetic Island by James Cook because he thought the magnetic rocks were interfearing with his surveying equiptment.
Jesse
The big mango
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This was a big mango, cleverly titled the big mango. Don't really know anything about it, we just passed it on the highway.
Wonder if they're famous for mango pies like our big apple is for apple pies.
Jesse
Wednesday, July 15, 2009
Underwater pictures are fun
That's the 13th, I have just posted about 16 times so you should start at the bottom and read up, there's a bit of a progresion and it might make a little more sense. Start at "our view..."
Jesse
Whitehaven beach
Pictures can only show so much about a place, and as beautiful as the photos we have are, they really can't do justice to actually being there. When we got there they said we should go up to the lookout first to get some pictures. I think if we hadn't done that first we would have forgotten about it as we strolled on the unbelievably fine sand.
I am glad we did though, because the view was nothing short of spectacular. On the way to the lookout the path opens up an you get your first look of the beach. It was really funny to watch peoples reactions as the beach came into view.
I saw many people do this and everyone of them made some sort of noise reflecting their astonishment. A lot of them words of disbelief, while others were just gasps.
I will also post more pictures of the beach.
The sand on the beach itself is something that I didn't think existed. It is so incredibly fine that when I was looking at some grains on my fingertips i noticed that one grain of sand fit into the crevices of my fingerprint with ease. The feeling of the sand on your feet is amazing as well.
Apparently (and I say apparently because it wad just our captain who told us this and I haven't verified it yet) no one is allowed to take sand from the beach and the only people to ever to be allowed were NASA, who took 1 tonne in order to use it to make the lens for the Hubble space telescope.
Jesse
I am glad we did though, because the view was nothing short of spectacular. On the way to the lookout the path opens up an you get your first look of the beach. It was really funny to watch peoples reactions as the beach came into view.
I saw many people do this and everyone of them made some sort of noise reflecting their astonishment. A lot of them words of disbelief, while others were just gasps.
I will also post more pictures of the beach.
The sand on the beach itself is something that I didn't think existed. It is so incredibly fine that when I was looking at some grains on my fingertips i noticed that one grain of sand fit into the crevices of my fingerprint with ease. The feeling of the sand on your feet is amazing as well.
Apparently (and I say apparently because it wad just our captain who told us this and I haven't verified it yet) no one is allowed to take sand from the beach and the only people to ever to be allowed were NASA, who took 1 tonne in order to use it to make the lens for the Hubble space telescope.
Jesse
On the catamaran
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The pride of airlie. For those of you with a keen eye, you might notice that this is not the same ship as we previously posted. Apparently there is more than one Pride of Airlie, and the one we posted before was very different from this one. I have a better picture of the full ship which I will post later, but this one is geotagged to wherever we were at that point.
Jesse
Our view for the night
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This was our view from our room on South Molle island for two nights. We didn't spend much time in the room, the island was pretty fun and there was a bar at the resort.
The food was terrible, but that's about the only thing that was bad at all. The resort had a 9-hole pitch and putt that I thought about playing, but it was $25 and there was very little time to do it and no one to play with.
Jesse
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
Sailing and playing with whales
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We're out sailing the Whitsunday island and we've come across a pod of whales. It is really amazing.
Amy
Sunday, July 12, 2009
Airlie beach
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We've arrived in arlie beach. It is a beautiful tourist town, not much else but shops and bars and a couple of marinas. From here we do a three day, two night sailing tour of the Whitsunday islands. We leave tomorrow afternoon and don't get back until Wednesday. We will be sleeping on an island each night and snorkeling the great barrier reef among other things during the day.
Don't know if we'll be able to blog over that time period, probably won't be any reception on our phones. We'll blog lots when we get back I suppose. We stocked up on sunscreen today, hopefully I won't get too crispy.
Jesse
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