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Australia
Whenever you mention overseas that you are from Australia, people think “the opera house, skippy and the beaches” but Australia is not only that, Australia is the bush, the outback, the country people, and its wild life and lots more. Ten years ago we joined one of the best four wheel drive club in the country. Being members of the Subaru Club, we have met exceptional people, whom we consider our second family; we learnt how to go camping, four wheel driving and more, now is time to put our skills to the test. We will be travelling to the rainforest, the outback, the world famous great barrier reef, we will go through some remote areas with rugged terrain, we’ll see lots of wild life including the legendary salt water crocodile, furthermore the famous road trains, they are 53 metres long, of course meet the country people, we will be visiting cattle stations; one of them is one and a half million acres and obviously we will be going to a lot of country pubs so we can enjoy a coldie while we meet some of the locals and some adventurous travellers, we are very excited and cannot wait longer to “Go and See Australia”......well...part of it.

27 June 2010

Fantasy Island

We were recommended to visit Hamilton Island, after Reefworld, the catamaran dropped us at the island. We learnt that originally it was known as a Passage Island and it was used firstly they had sheep on the land. In 1922 the land was taken over by another person for cattle grazing, in the mid 40's someone else took over the lease and it wasn't until 1976 that Mr Keith Williams became involved in the island now called Hamilton. In 1982 Mr Williams commence building his dream, 2 years after he opened the place to the public, but development and building kept on going and forging ahead. 70% of the island is still national park. There is an airport built on reclaimed land, the marina has been completed dredged and the resort is on the eastern site.
Hamilton Island is the major resort in the Whitsundays and the largest offshore island resort in Australia.
The place is magnificent, there are only few cars in the island, some shuttle buses and hundreds of golf buggies, we ended up calling the place "Toon Town".
The Hamilton Island Outrigger Cup was on and the place was very busy, we found a nice pub, had some drinks and had dinner.
The next day we explored the island and found lots of breathtaking views and dwellings, the marina was spectacular with all of the yachts, we even picked ours. It is a very unspoiled place with a large variety of birds. The man-made landscape through out the island is just beautiful unfortunately, late in the afternoon we had to stop dreaming and went back to the caravan park and sleep in the off road granny flat.

Hamilton Island
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