Friday, July 31, 2009

Airlie Beach

One place I've been wanting to visit for years is Airlie Beach and the Whitsunday Islands. We stayed at the Best Western Colonial Palms motel for $105, a booking we made on Lastminute.com. The view from the room had water glimpses:


Airlie Beach lived up to all the great things I've heard about it, with palm-fringed beaches:

The township itself is quite youth-oriented with pubs and backpacker hostels:

It's a departure point for many well-known islands such as Hayman, Hamilton and South Molle
but we only had one night there so we soaked up the ambience of Airlie itself:

Hopefully one day we can fly back and visit the islands but for now we're very happy with what we saw:

This is the lovely lagoon which is patrolled and safe to swim in:

1 comment:

My Notting Hill said...

Beautiful. I'm curious - you mentioned the lagoon is parolled. Is it for sharks?

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