Camping in the Whitsunday islands....

We left the campervan behind for a night and took a boat and rented tent out to Sandy Bay on South Molle Island...one of the many beautiful beaches on the Whitsundays. It was a great escape from the crowds of Airlie Beach and random caravan parks along the east coast, and we had the beach to ourselves, apart from a group of locals from Mackay on a weekend break, with whom we ended up playing 'who's in the bag' until all the pieces of paper blew away.

Rick showed his ingenuity by improvising pegs from rocks, sticks and bits of coral...if not I think we'd have blown away in the night, and been eaten by ants.

Camping is lovely as long as you can forget about the bugs and other wildlife, we were bitten by ants, woken by birds, and scared by a perfectly innocent jellyfish when snorkelling (as a result of their being so much publicity about stingers in the area). I did particularly like the brightly coloured lorikeets though, who came to say hello while were were having lunch.

While not the most remote of the Whitsundays, we could walk up to the top of the island and get a great 360 degree view of the others, and down on the other side was luxury resort where we treated ourselves to an icecream!