Day 36- Airlie Beach

June 1, 2011- Day 36

Where: Emu Beach to Airlie Beach

Dinner: Thai food, with chocolate cereal before bed (is that like dessert then?)

         Today was rather uneventful, which I suppose is a good thing when you spend the day driving. We left Emu Park early, after having our cereal and coffee. I drove for the first three hours and all we ate until afternoon was ice cream bars and a bag of chips. That's some serious driving food right there! We finally stopped to buy supplies to make a real lunch and then Pat took over driving. We stopped to buy some beers to take on the boat with us tomorrow. Later as I we were driving I read over the trip info and realized that we can't take glass bottles with us on the boat. Everything we bought was in glass bottles! So once we got into Airlie Beach we had to stop to get canned drinks.

        Airlie Beach is the jumping off point for the Whitsunday Islands. It's not big, but it's a fairly happening place. There are a lot of bars, restaurants and sailing booking shops. We didn't spend much time in town this evening. We wandered around and found a Thai place to get dinner. We came back and packed up for tomorrow. We leave at 9:30am. We'll be back in Airlie Beach overnight when we get back in three days. There is a cool swimming lagoon here which would be fun to hang out at if it's hot. At this point I just can't wait to see the Whitsundays on a yacht!