Hamilton Island Paradise

11th-14th  May 2012

With Friday and Monday booked off work, we headed to Hamilton island with the family.

Hamilton Island is one of the largest islands in the Whitsunday isalnds, otherwise known as paradise!

The island airport is pretty small and the runway tiny, we must have landed 1 meter from the sea and by the time we finally stopped we were a meter from the sea at the other end of the runway!

As soon as the plane doors opened we were greeted with a more humid 25 degrees! Ben was also our chauffeur and was waiting with our golf buggy. The 'bug' would be our mode of transport for the next 4 days, as there are no cars on the island and everyone drives around on golf buggies.

Friday afternoon we headed down to the beach for a swim, Ben and James were the only ones brave enough to head in for a swim in the clear blue water (even though the sea was warm).

We finished off the day with a bbq on the terrace and a good few bottles of wine.

BBQ and Beers!

 The view from our Balcony!

Saturday 12th was our 10 year anniversary of when we first became a couple, for an anniversary we were returning to Whitehaven beach, the location we got engaged 6 years ago. We got a catermaran out to the beach, we went a shore and had time for a walk up to a viewing point to take in the entire view of the island and beach.

Joanne, Ted, Ben and James donned their stinger suits (used to ward off the jelly fish) and went swimming in the crystal clear blue waters, while Sarah made friends with some Sydney-sider's

Stingers!!!

On Sunday we started the day with a walk on one of the islands many trails up and over the rolling hills, it was a hot day and a picnic at the top was awesome! the views were stunning.

Sunday afternoon saw us rent a small dinghy and sail around one of the beach inlets, great fun, and admiral Lawton came in to her own out on the water!

We then retired to the yacht club for a glass of wine and Sarah made friends with the sunsail crew on thier 39ft boat.

The aliens are coming!

With another bbq, and many bottles of wine our trip to Hamilton island was almost over. We packed up and returned to Sydney on Monday, while Joanne and Ted got a flight to Brisbane.

Driving back from the yacht club!

Its pretty amazing to have such an island paradise only a 2 hr flight from Sydney and it wont take us 6 years to return again!