Whitsunday Island

It is 14nm from Airlie to Cid Harbour, which is between Whitsunday Island and Cid Island. Our first stop was Sawmill Beach on Whitsunday Island. Ruby was sooo excited to see dolphins leaping about the anchorage. We were excited to see a lazy dugong and plenty of turtles.

Anchorage at Cid Harbour

 
The next day was showery, so we dinghied about and then walked to Dugong Beach when the weather improved, being careful to not step on any cranky goannas.

View from Whitsunday Island

spot the goanna

Dugong Beach

 As it is all National Park, our limit was a few glorious days as the girls got very restless.
We returned to Airlie so AK could attend classes in Mackay and then we had a road trip to Southport to empty the unit's storage area where we has been keeping our remaining treasures! On our trip back to Airlie we came across a whale in Whitsunday Passage which was very exciting for us all. We spent ten days "down south" before returning and lifting Manatee out at Edges Boatyard to give her bottom a scrub and replace her stern tube with a cutlass bearing- we are getting modern!