Yesterday was a day for washing, catching up, and reading on the deck, until 5pm when Ian declared “I’m going for a walk up Mt Rooper”.  This is the hill we can see, with the Telstra towers on it.  He took a steep but sealed road, with a short dirt section at the end.  From […]

The main reason for coming to Airlie Beach was to visit the world famous Whitsunday Island and Whitehaven Beach.  If you’ve ever googled “world’s best beaches”, you’ve seen the amazing photos of swirling azure water, and gleaming white sand. Unfortunately, being ranked as one of the World’s Best Beaches, means Whitehaven is also one of […]

We are staying in the middle of Conway National Park, so it seemed appropriate to do one of its numerous walks – especially as the trailhead is literally just down the road.  Our map did not give the contour interval, so the half a dozen contour lines that we needed to climb up and down […]

A smooth boat ride from MI to Townsville; a smooth drive from Townsville to Airlie (there seemed to be a lot less roadwork); with a quick stop at the Burdekin Bridge, and a quick and very steep side trip to the top of Mt Inkerman; a short shop at Cannonvale, and finally we found ourselves […]

Final day on Maggie (we’ve gone local), and we decided to go our separate ways.  But only in order to reach Arcadia, which is a couple of bays away.  There are two ways to walk there – the “High Road” and the “Low Road”.  One is longer, steeper and rougher than the other. I took […]