Day 28: Airlie Beach

Helen is cranky. She had 31 sandfly bites on one leg and 22 on the other leg. Of all of the creatures that I could have been bitten by (crocodile, taipan, brown snake, black snake, encephalitis or dengue fever infected mosquito), this was probably a good option, but the sandfly bites are unbearably itchy.

It was cold and raining and we were both miserable (well Jim was only miserable because Helen was very cranky). We drove out to Shute Harbour and looked at the yachts and islands in the Whitsunday Passage. The rain finally stopped and we looked for a geocache, and then wandered around the shops in Airlie Beach. We had fish and chips for lunch from the Fancy Fish Shop - actually, it wasn't that fancy, then wandered around the lagoon, and the marina and the day turned out to be sunny. But we didn't really love Airlie Beach and ended up happy to leave.