Episode 32: WORLD'S MOST BEAUTIFUL BEACH / Whitsunday Islands / Airlie Beach / Ocean Rafting
now this is what i'm talking about the site site on see it's like 15 we were meant to be just on a normal powered site but they had a bit of a mix up with people parking on the wrong sites so they upgraded us to an ensuite site however it is only just big enough for us we just fit in with and then the awning pretty much takes up um the rest of the space and yeah there's like makes that way we're at latabello in uh early beach for lunch uh it's italian and it looks good and arya's kids pizza isn't outside huge there's gonna be leftovers and i am looking forward to them because it looks amazing what have you got there aria what flavor is it ham and pineapple is it having pineapple oreo it looks good thoughts that is a good pizza i think that's the best pizza i've had in like years it's so good it's so cheesy though yeah the base is just perfect isn't it are you eating area or just playing homemade that's good i'm excited what's the verdict amazing it looks like a small dish but i'm full and that's like freshly made like yeah and my burger was exceptional like really really good um this is the best food i've eaten with arya's pizza and amanda's yucky since the windmill cafe and vagara so we're gonna come back i think we'll do dinner yeah i'm impressed what a beautiful sunset we're at ellie beach and amanda found this beautiful pier on google to come it's called three plank pier and uh so happy she did because it looks epic so i got my hair i need a haircut so so for all you photography nerds but a nice composition i'm doing a horizontal competition composition across like that um with the pier at the center of it and i'm shooting a three bracket just in case i'm doing like 15 and 30 second shots at f 8. i've got a neutral density filter on and the circular polarizer so um yeah it's going really well love it typical fan life um this steak is nothing typical about this steak oh why because it's like an expensive steak there has to be 16 each they're like the scotch some fancy thick scotch fancy cut ah fancy breed they were on clearance down to like eight dollars each oh because they were duty today right interesting but they'll cry back so that way perfectly yeah i just had why are you i don't mean to touch my cake and it's just a um beetroot feta walnut salad with leaves and the dressing is just um distracted the dressing is literally the fetter we get the marinated feta so i just use the oil out of the feta and then some lime or lemon juice and that's it that's the dress delish what do you think aria good but i don't eat you love beetroot i don't understand this i don't like this big drink kids you can't pick it cheers see you tomorrow waterfall yes okay going in the water so is we just had our first time all right so done our second snorkeling they're more small things for the day now we're just going to be chilling and relaxing i think it is now can i grab a side of these guys and sell them ciders so why not smith car would have been she got quiet after home aria aria did you help okay next part of the day is um with sunday island walking up to the hill inlet lookout and then down to whitehaven beach so let's go just walking up to the lookout hill inlet come on we're up at hill inlet on lit sunday island and well it's beautiful it is amazing i can see why it's such a popular spot and i'm glad we came here yeah thank you and i'm looking very forward to chucking the drone up getting some footage for you guys pumped yeah yeah so photos to come hopefully and yeah enjoy this little bit of paradise yeah while we're walking back to whitehaven beach for lunch we i'll let you know a bit about the tour so we um went with ocean rafting today which is a speed boat inflatable like speed boat um we did the northern tour so they pick you up from your accommodation um whether it's motel hotel airbnb i think um they have certain sort of areas that they can pick you up from um so they picked us up from the discovery park this morning 7 45 um drive you to the boat you do your checking process get a wetsuit if you want to hire a wetsuit eight dollars each we went without them and we were fine it was a little bit cold but i don't think a wetsuit would have changed it too much to be honest because a lot of people with the wetsuits we're still getting out because they're cold um kids get a complimentary wetsuit um with their ticket which is awesome so aria had a wetsuit to keep her a bit warmer supply um the snorkeling gear as part of your ticket so your mask and your flippers um they've got kid sizes and all of those things that you can use um plus pool noodles floating jackets all that kind of stuff so you don't need to bring any of that if you don't want to um but yeah you just have to hire the wetsuits if you would like so total cost for us was four hundred and sixteen dollars for the day that is including three lunches so 130 dollars per adult 90 dollars per child if i'm correct i'll write that in if i double check and i was wrong um i'm pretty sure that's what it was plus 16 per person for lunch um so we did the lunch thing because it's only a small boat by the time you bring change your clothes swimmers towel water bottle cameras all those things don't really have room to pack lunch and stuff so we packed snacks um in our bags but not really lunch um so we just went with the lunch pack thing so that's where we're heading now down to whitehaven beach to have some lunch um if there's anything else you want to know let me know it isn't the sailing catamaran one um it's a speedboat one i've said it already but i just want to make sure that was clear um we chose that because the one we were going to do the catamaran sailing um didn't come to whitehead beach and that was a must do for me so um and we've heard really good things about ocean rafting um so we decided to do that one today and we might splurge on a catamaran um later in the week or um because we looked into one that's um can do scuba diving as well so we looked into that um if there's anything else you want to know let me know um i'm not sure what happens after one having beach possibly just going straight back um back to early i'm not 100 sure i'll let you know obviously we take you with you with with us as we go we made it to the beach what do you reckon amanda epic it's like i don't even have any words but is it the best beach in the world yeah so it was raining when we got on the boat this morning it was like bucketing down windy cold we're like what are we doing what are we doing with this for then it stayed um quite cold and windy until we got out probably to the snorkeling and then it started clearing and then yeah just look at this look at this body behind me yeah just phenomenal oh so nice i recommend if i have to come back to daydream island i think so yeah looks nicer yeah i think i'll uh definitely want to explore that one along with um what's the other one out here hamilton yeah an island norfolk island you name it i want to go to the mall hey and that's us done that ride back in then was so much fun so much fun i want to go so yeah it was buckling down rain we're getting on the boat this morning um but sun shining for the rest of the day which was absolutely amazing amanda's only wearing a jumper so she doesn't have to carry yeah if we've got too much stuff i'm only wearing a jumper because i yeah i've got no hands to carry everything so i've just put it on to make my life easier but um i definitely do not need it on at all i'm still my wet swimmers too yeah we had a waterfall but it's not long i like how close it is to the car yeah very close to the car hey everyone we're at uh cedar creek falls today um it's about a 25 minute drive out of valley beach maybe and check it out check it out behind me nice watercolor hey this is roughly the composition i just took as a camera a little bit more like that um but it's a bit it's kind of a bit difficult to get the waterfall to be prominent because it's quite small in the frame um yeah so you just need a bit of like yeah it's got a nice uh line competition in the thirds and stuff like that i think in a panorama image and just hopefully i can bring out the waterfall in the editing so that it sort of pops as the focus of the image otherwise i'm not sure if it will or not but yeah good place i bet it is we just returned off up to a lookout and we're like we don't know if we're going the right way and it's just really little dodgy track i don't think we're doing the right way we're going up the hill so that's positive right yeah she's a little tired i mean it's hard that's a step up from normal so it's technically not a lookout um the lookout i think it is a walk from another point but we just keep driving up the road and it takes you to a telstra tower and um area but it's actually reasonable views of 270 degrees of the islands and stuff around early beach you can see hamilton island um and all the southern islands really um you just walk around the outside of the telstra tower and room plant room stuff i mean you can look through the trees to see lots of of the beautiful blue water and the islands so um it may look like you're driving into nowhere and you kind of ah but you can come up and have a look around so so but there's like a coral reef right there and there's a little island in behind the sign there and wow that's all i got to say this this is um what is it shoot harbour shoots shoot haven at shoot harbour i think the harbour is just down there and um wow nothing but wow they're good yeah oh that's cool what's the verdict i'm a bit excited thumbs up i just can't handle the talk that's the saron electric bike we are heading out for dinner tonight we're a little bit early so we decided to stop in at the airy beach lagoon amanda did not give me a haircut this afternoon like she promised sorry i got chatting to people fellow fellow traveling families um it's pretty nice here we should come back during the day when it's like warm and swimmable is it warm no no it's a shame that it's not sans and it's nice really nice palm trees in the background saturday here in airley bench and there's a market down at the early beach waterfront front area and park so we've had to wander around there's lots of handmade things a few little um veggie stalls and stuff like that um food coffee that kind of thing and it's right next to this amazing playground that you can see in the background so aria's just spent probably 40 minutes 45 minutes climbing around and having a great time sorry they've just started the music now hope you can hear me um yeah so there's live music as well and it's actually a really really cool market and vibe so if you're here on a saturday definitely hit this up support some small early businesses and enjoy beautiful days i'd like to tell you a bit about discovery early beach um we got a discount steal thing um if you booked more than three nights and four nights can't remember um it was kid's day free so we would have been charged 10 um a night for arya but we did that deal and so we think it worked out to be about 39 dollars a night for a powered site um that was uh tuesday to a tuesday night tuesday check-in saturday check out we've actually extended for a couple of extra days which then ended up costing us because it's the long weekend and it's the saturday sunday night we extended for like 60 bucks tonight um but we were already here and enjoying early beach so um we just stayed paid the extra um and the big four which is known for amazingness um was like 75 a night every night that wasn't even including the long weekend weekend um days i don't even know how much that would have cost but um this one i really like it's dog friendly as well um and it has a cool water park that's behind me here that's got like so many slides and stuff it's really cool it's awesome um kind of like a basketball court uh like a soft perfect astro turf court which is behind me there now it's got a pool jumping pillow other playground it's got bird feeding every morning i don't know if you're gonna be able to hear me um and stuff really nice sites are a bit on the smaller side for what compared to others that we've had plenty of um camp kitchens and stuff around as well and um just give me a second um plenty of kitchens dotted around which are really nice and clean and um yeah like quite quite good uh this is the pool of fish and yeah so there's some sun lounges and stuff some tables and all of that and it's a bit cool here today it's only like 23 degrees there's not many people in there cool and it's pretty much got everything you need we rode into the markets this morning and um it was about 15 minutes of me spike riding with arya on the seat um hang on aries wanting me to do something so maybe 10 minutes if you're a lot better than me um but it's nice to just be able to ride in and not have to worry about parking and all that kind of thing go for a ride and stuff like that there's only two kind of hills that you have to deal with and i can't fault this park at all at all um stuff really friendly and all of that there is a fly pit as well a communal fire pit that you can um sit around and location perfect really if you want to be in town at early i don't know what else we'll get up to today i think we're just going to relax and chill and might do something favorable i don't think having one of those days on our way ally out of airly beach heading north of course uh we stopped in at the whit sunday gold coffee and they've got a menagerie and like farm animals and stuff um can't go into the menagerie of birds and things but um there's some foods and some goats and things you can have a look at chickens and all sorts of little things you can have a little wander around in a playground and yeah it looks so good so far oh look i got a haircut thank you amanda it's pretty intense it'll grow out but um yeah it's not often that you can drink coffee at a place that has grown the coffee beans themselves themselves in australia so we're going to go with sunday gold coffee we're here at the big mango in bowen it's a big thing it's a big big thing one of those big big things yeah arie's asleep in the truck which is sad yeah hey we're in the middle of dry season and it's raining and there's a storm yeah anyway i don't know what's going on with this weather climate change hey onto bowen we've arrived in bowen this is the one garada at the beach uh caravan park small little independently owned one um we're on site 15 which is nice and large we so we've got a slab behind me here we've got the van and also fits the truck next to it yeah so nice and big some of them are not as quite as big um but this one's good um just a little bit extra room inside here as well and plenty of room at the back heaps of room so you can go right all the way back here um but we wanted to be obviously over the slack so that's us um it is a dog friendly caravan park so there are dog friendly sights on certain ones um so if you have a dog you need to book in to those ones there's a pool no playground but it is apparently right on the beach we haven't got that yet because we just got here and set up but we'll definitely be heading over to the beach in a little bit um two amenity blocks one sort of in the center and one off to the other side haven't even checked those out yet but we'll get there as well and it is seventy six dollars for two nights um which is what thirty five thirty eight dollars per powered site per night roughly if i can do maths in my head quickly um so yeah it's probably um just probably a little on the expensive side because it doesn't have that many things it doesn't have a playground or um any of that sort of stuff for kids however the sites are big you know not as crammed in as some smaller sites in different career parks charging the same so you kind of give and take um you know the bonuses or the positives from each one so we're only here for two nights um because we don't like to travel far and we've heard bowen's really pretty so um i'm gonna look into things to do tomorrow this afternoon um before we just head to the beach and then tomorrow we'll go and look at some lookouts and um things like that um while we're here and then we'll move on again because that's what we do anyway hopefully uh we can show you a bit about bowen and see what we get up to just outside is the caravan time there's a playground that you can walk out to through a gate in the back and a path down to the beach it's queen's beach queens park beach queens beach nice flight walk goes for ages apparently no crocodiles really ever come here um so it's pretty safe and low waves today i'm not sure if they get any bigger but it is a bit of a bay so i don't know if i do get any bigger that's really nice it's um oh it's also dog friendly so you can come out and walk your dogs along the beach really nice place for sunset too by the looks of it we're a bit earlier than normal for this um and it seems a bit of a cloud bank happening so i don't know sunset or go or not on those unknowns this afternoon all right we have the day in bowen today uh by day i mean it's already lunch time we've gotten some work done this morning and we're now out for the afternoon a couple of hours to have a squishy around and our first stop is um the water towers with the mural art on it so they're kind of like silo art but on water tanks and they're pretty cool just um you can drive right up to them so you don't even have to get out of the car if you don't want to um but we're just going to walk up this little little walk and you can also view out same time because it's up in here we've stopped for a picnic at the bowen it's been a waterfront type area and there's a playground there's splash park that's free beautiful big trees for picnic tables um and there's another big mango bit further down that i'm gonna walk down to and have a look at um it's really nice area out over looks like the bay and two like jetties and all that sort of stuff it's really nice well this is what valen's been hiding apparently we've been questioning bowen and like why you'd live here basically yeah um but this is why this little bay is beautiful yeah horseshoe bay beach and that's the first one of the three we're hoping to stop at in this area um and it's impressed us it's so beautiful little coral to swim around and look at it and might say wilson's commentary except very tropical instead of cold yeah a half an hour yeah so we'll send the drain up and have a look around as well and there's um the rotary lookout here as well so we'll head up that and have a look okay this one not praying friendly it is constant steps constant um uneven kind of rocks that they've concreted in between um narrow openings between boulder rocks um yeah you'd have to carry their little ones on this one arya's walking it perfectly fine so um kids can do it but yeah i wouldn't you wouldn't be able to bring a pram or anything on this one it is very steep oh my goodness oh yeah it's hard to show how thick this is jeez and we made it amanda said we'd fly the drone for you to give you some footage didn't realize it was near the airport so no drone footage we had to use our legs to get up to the lookout and film down that's well you know the things we do for you guys all right dinner tonight we're doing in carbonara delicious carbonara aria's helping out uh i used to be an italian surf chef so i know how to do this nicely check this out so first of all we've cut up bacon and onion and that is stir fry that's frying off thank you ariel yeah he's cooking it and we'll add a bit of garlic to that in a second how old are you three and a half are you three and a half yes under twelve so put a little bit of garlic in that and then when it's all cooked off we'll put some cream in and then some cheese salt and pepper that's it and an egg at the end actually we don't have any so going eggless now the garlic's in we're stirring it soaking it all off i want to say you look good liquida yeah i missed it some of the cream cream roughly half of the 600 ml um bottle should be enough stir it through for me aria gently yeah all right all right this is reducing nicely that's ready for the cheese now parmesan cheese and tortellini is just boiling off so it's not going to win any presentation awards but it's delicious that brings us to the end of another episode thank you so much for watching i hope you enjoyed the whitsundays we absolutely loved our time out on the islands and we head to the townsville area next so um we're gonna spend a few days in townsville and then and also check out maggie island um which daniel has been to before and has amazing stories to tell so i can't wait to check it out thanks so much again make sure you leave us leave us a comment um let us know what you think and we'll see you next episode
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