{"id":26024,"date":"2012-02-28T16:17:06","date_gmt":"2012-02-29T00:17:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.heynadine.com\/?p=26024"},"modified":"2012-02-28T16:17:06","modified_gmt":"2012-02-29T00:17:06","slug":"come-sail-away-whitsundays-to-daydream-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/heynadine.com\/new\/come-sail-away-whitsundays-to-daydream-island\/","title":{"rendered":"Come Sail Away : Whitsundays to Daydream Island"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here is the second part of <a title=\"Whitehaven Beach: Sailing the Whitsundays\" href=\"https:\/\/www.heynadine.com\/whitehaven-beach-sailing-the-whitsundays\/\">my 2 day sailing trip through the Whitsundays.<\/a><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #000000;\">OZ Vlog #5 :<\/span> Contiki Beaches and Reefs: Whitsundays, Daydream Island, Australia<\/h2>\n<p>httpvh:\/\/youtu.be\/n8lQC5yg7NY<\/p>\n<p>We started off this morning with a lovely 2 hours sail followed by a quick snorkel along Caves Cove.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Whitsundays Sailing, Australia\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/33736956@N08\/6907955283\/\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7177\/6907955283_742548240a_b.jpg\" alt=\"Whitsundays Sailing, Australia\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Snorkling, Whitsundays, Australia\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/33736956@N08\/6908016269\/\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7056\/6908016269_027610876e_b.jpg\" alt=\"Snorkling, Whitsundays, Australia\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>To anyone thinking about doing a sailing trip along the Whitsundays, I highly recommend. It is a fantastic way to see the islands and it&#8217;s quite refreshing to try out other methods of transportation while traveling.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Whitsundays Sailing, Australia\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/33736956@N08\/6907989163\/\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7201\/6907989163_d664571cfd_b.jpg\" alt=\"Whitsundays Sailing, Australia\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Plus it&#8217;s fun to just chill on a boat with other crazy travel friends!<a title=\"Whitsundays Sailing, Australia\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/33736956@N08\/6907901129\/\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7185\/6907901129_c2d2c47331_b.jpg\" alt=\"Whitsundays Sailing, Australia\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Sailing Map, Whitsundays, Australia\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/33736956@N08\/6908008949\/\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7068\/6908008949_ca9e9268cc_b.jpg\" alt=\"Sailing Map, Whitsundays, Australia\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Map of our 2 night sailing course.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h2>Daydream Island<\/h2>\n<p>After our sailing trip was complete, the skipper dropped us off at this super fancy resort on Daydream Island.\u00a0 Although the resort reminded me of a Little Mermaid theme park, it did give these stunning views of the Whitsundays.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Daydream Island: Whitsundays, Australia\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/33736956@N08\/6908007263\/\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7046\/6908007263_950f45e0bd_b.jpg\" alt=\"Daydream Island: Whitsundays, Australia\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Daydream Island, Whitsundays, Australia\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/33736956@N08\/6907940767\/\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7052\/6907940767_ffdc682662_b.jpg\" alt=\"Daydream Island, Whitsundays, Australia\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The resort happened to have several salt ponds in which marine life swam around in. So later that afternoon we got the opportunity to take part in a fish feeding, which consisted of feeding clown fish, petting stingrays and holding sharks.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Stingray Feeding, Daydream Island: Whitsundays, Australia\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/33736956@N08\/6907975543\/\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7199\/6907975543_f307a09817_b.jpg\" alt=\"Stingray Feeding, Daydream Island: Whitsundays, Australia\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Shark Holding, Daydream Island: Whitsundays, Australia\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/33736956@N08\/6907898739\/\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7061\/6907898739_02bd6bb843_b.jpg\" alt=\"Shark Holding, Daydream Island: Whitsundays, Australia\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Last, to top off the evening we went to a pool party out at Gilligans. Time to rock out Whitsunday style!<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Pool Party, Daydream Island, Australia\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/33736956@N08\/6907933129\/\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7056\/6907933129_8015973df3_b.jpg\" alt=\"Pool Party, Daydream Island, Australia\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Final day of sailing on the Whitsundays, plus shark holding and stingray petting on <i> Daydream Island, Australia<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26026,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[133,238,713,800,810,1045,1668,2112,2203,2213,2334,2402,2552,2873,3195],"class_list":["post-26024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oceania","tag-activities","tag-australia","tag-contiki","tag-daydream-island","tag-travel","tag-fish-feeding","tag-life","tag-petting","tag-prosail","tag-queensland","tag-saling-the-whitsundays","tag-shark-holding","tag-stingrays","tag-travel-videos","tag-whitsundays"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/heynadine.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/heynadine.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/heynadine.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heynadine.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heynadine.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/heynadine.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26024\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heynadine.com\/new\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/heynadine.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heynadine.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heynadine.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}