We caught the midnight bus to Airlie Beach. It left at 12:30AM and arrived in Airley at 11:30AM with multiple stops during the night picking people up and dropping others off. It really wasn't too bad since we had ear plugs (thank you Jay!) and neck pillows. The bus was only half full so we also each had 2 seats to ourselves.
Once in Airlie Beach we checked into our hostel and started planning our sailing trip to the Whitsunday Islands. We settled on a 2 day 1 night trip that leaves tomorrow morning. This also presented us with a logistical problem with the number of days we are in Australia and how much stuff we still wanted to do. So we called Qantas and had them push our flight to Singapore back two days. It's a relief, now we can also do a two day trip to Fraser Island (which we will do on Sunday).
Headed to the grocery store to get food for lunch, dinner and motion sickness pills. The prospect of being on a small sailing boat for two days is a bit daunting for my stomach. After lunch we headed off to the lagoon (the salt water community swimming pool). The lagoon here is lovely! It's not like the cement swimming holes at home. For both the Airlie Beach and Cairns lagoon, there was a shallow end which you could walk from dry land to the middle of the pool without needing steps. There are also several fountains in the pool, not to mention the trees surrounding the pool to provide shade. And last but not least, there is a sandy part to the lagoon.
I love the looks of that lagoon! Would love to have been there to swim in that!
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