So it’s day two of OPERATION WHITSUNDAY ISLANDS and we woke this morning to a beautiful sunrise. It was breakfast and then to debate over the plans for the day. Sam had hoped to get sailing straight away but mum really wanted to go for a walk on South MolLe Island so we all clambered into the dingy and motored away to the jetty. The walk was to a lookout spot on one of the hills and it took us about and hour and three quarters to walk there and back. To tell you the truth, the view at the lookout wasn’t that impressive, personally I think the views along the walk were the best.
Then we were back in the boat and finally off for Whitehaven Beach, the most popular beach of the cruise. We wandered along slowly but the wind died down and we decided to anchor in Tongue Bay for another walk. 
Into the dingy again, except this time, when we got close to shore we realized it was low tide and there was 50 meters of coral to cross. None except Bethany wanted to walk across it so we headed back to the boat AGAIN and the other kids jumped in their swimmers and had a swim of the back of the boat. I lay down for a while and actually feel asleep I think and then joined them.
We spent the remainder of the afternoon hours swimming and taking the dingy out for spins (Sam loved that) and decided to stay the night in Tongue Bay, which disappointed me cause I really wanted to get to Whitehaven and do some serious snorkeling, there’s no real accessible reefs here.
It was still an amazing and really fun day. The water out here is clear for several metres down and you leap off into the water from anywhere on the boat. We took the dingy to the beach at one point and hung around there but I am really dying for some surf here too, it’s flat as a millpond.
Mum is getting dinner now and we are all washed, dried and absolutely POOPED!! We’ll sleep well tonight!
I got my email working again so any emails are welcome, but at the moment we don’t have 3G (I will publish this when I get it back) so I won’t be able to reply till we get back in range. Bare with me! 😀