Marc's Public Blog - Trips to other locations

From Undara, we flew to another island, this time Hamilton Island, a big resort island with multiple airline flights, some international. The first part of the flight was totally VMC, I promise :) (but let's just say that it's a good thing all pilots were IFR rated). After takeoff the clouds went to the ground, and there was no clear path outside of climbing through a hole in the clouds:

where we stayed in Undara

VFR on top

glad to have others on scope, because I couldn't really see them

Hamilton Island's runway

Once on the ground, we waited for our transport in the hangar:

After arriving, we booked a 4WD buggy tour which didn't have extreme driving, but it was fun enough and mostly to climb to a few peaks with a few:

Top views:

our hotel

our planes

we drove down to a beach

some fish would surface to get food

We then went to our room, and I saw some sulfur crested cockatoos by our room, so I went to look for my seeds, and made an offering to the single bird:

then another one came and they fought a bit

this one won

then a few more showed up

Some became very friendly and eager quickly, but they have sharp claws, it hurt a bit :)

happy bird

We then went to hide back in our room, and the birds stayed, hopeful :)

jennifer felt bullied :)

Some pictures from our room:

Meals:

you could have breakfast by the koalas

wedding party outside

Most of our time was spent during 2 days going to the great barrier reef for diving

The last morning, we walked on the beach during low tide:

snails that make the shells that hermit crabs steal later :)

We then had a nice scenic flight on the way out:

our hotel and beach

one of our planes, taking off