Back from Hamilton Island

Well, if you ever want a really good holiday, hire a house for 10 days in the Whitsundays... We stayed in Malihini House, which is one of the few privately owned houses on Hamilton Island. There were 8 of us, two babies under one, Katie and Josh, Ali and Phil, and the Grandparents!
Katie got a Coles on Line food order which meant we didn't have to buy to much locally- (very expensive). We had good food, good fun and lots of relaxing.

Jim's catch... pity it was a protected species and had to go back...
Not sure if Phil will ever go fishing again...He looked a bit green when they got back.






We all swam on Whitehaven beach, even the babies - and we all had to wear stinger suits, though I think the risk was minimal at this time of year. If you look at photos of people swimming on Whitehaven they show bikini clad flousies- the reality is somewhat different - even slim people don't often look good in lycra.... not showing the photos - suffice it to say Leah (7months) looked like an angry bird when the suit helmet was up- and she was better than the rest of us. Poor Will got fitted with a size 4 suit cos they didn't have any smaller- he had no idea what was happening, but does enjoy the water so he took it all in his stride.

A snorkeling trip was good too. Katie and I thought it might be a rough trip out to the coral but it was 40 minutes of calm - ish bay tripping. We slid off the back of the boat with stinger suit, mask and snorkel and flippers and had an hour or so floating around looking at fish and coral a couple of metres down. It was relaxing and felt safe because we were not too far from the boat (kept that in sight!), and there were 20-30 of us on the trip.