Day 13 - Cairns to Airlie Beach

Today was to be an opportunity to see Oz by Greyhound Bus. We were up early - 6am and were at the bus station for 7.30am after a hearty breakfast.

The journey from Cairns to Airlie Beach was to take 11 hours with a few stops along the way. The coach was full to the rafters and we chatted to a few people along the way. We had every nationality, german, dutch, irish, english, chinese and many more. But the best laid plans... We had light failure on the freight trailer, whilst it was being fixed Helen had time to smell out the nearest offy and came back with 2 G & T's. We ended up two hours later than expected.

We arrived into Airlie Beach at 9.30pm checked into our accommodation Whitsunday on the Beach - a fantastic apartment right next to the lagoon.  Our bags got lashed into the room and off we went in search of food.

We both missed our mums tonight and called home to our over the moon mothers.  We had not spoke to them since Singapore!

We are now off on a sailing trip for a few days back on Saturday. 

See ya.