As I was heading away to Darwin, Andy and Shae took me on a last fishing trip out to the Whitsundays. We didn’t get anything, just a bunch of small fish. We explored a small beach, it’s just so great being out on the water amongst the islands.
The Peel’s boat on the beach. We didn’t catch anything worth photographing.
Always scary fishing at the end of December in Airlie, and sure enough, we got rained on. But it wasn’t too bad and was one of the best trips we had done.
As soon as we moored up I dropped some bait over the side and pulled up a 45cm sweet lip – my favourite. No one could believe that was where I got it, but hey, I’m just a pro.
If I hadn’t gone so hard on the piss the first night I might have been able to fish a great spot where my mate Judda pulled up Indonesian Snapper after Indonesian Snapper. All thanks to my home burley I will assume.
Good fun.
Got some huge crabs
Never thought I would be uploading this photo on a website, check out the abs
I think Dugong Beach is the best place I have ever been.
Seriously, I think it is #1
You need a boat there, but there is a boat you can pay that picks you up and drops you off, at least there was back in 2011.
The website doesn’t have anything other than some tables so you need to bring everything.
Be careful of the monitor lizards! They will eat anything you leave out, and tear open plastic to get in there.
The walk is something you have to do. Unlike every other walk in existence, the ‘estimate time’ and ‘difficulty’ is accurate. I didn’t bring enough water. The view is something else. You will look at my photos and think they are photoshopped… they are auto function on a cannon powershot d10
Beach site
View from the top
Me at the top
A good friend of mine was having a 30th, so they decided to do a camping trip at Dugong Beach on Whitsunday Island. It is home of the famous Whitehaven Beach, but it is a huge island, and one isn’t really accessible from the other. “Damn” I thought.
Well I turned out to be wrong. It was, and still is, the best place I have camped. The beaches were amazing, great sunset, fishing (I only managed a small bream, despite the all the effort), crabbing, a great bushwalk up to a lookout that could only seen to be believed.
Not trying to sound conceited but the photos taken are not photoshopped in anyway, taken on the “auto” setting of a Canon Powershot D10. It looked way better than they seem.
And the trip was great, great chat, lots of people, everyone just having a ball. How could you not? The place was paradise.
Sunset fishing, I just got a bream
View from the Beach at the camp site
Crabbing unsuccessfully
View from the top of the walk
Me at the top
The Great Barrier Reef is a fantastic place, everyone should see it once.
The tides were up and there was a fair bit of sediment in the water, but the sun was out, so there was some great snorkelling to be had
Diving down
The elusive clownfish