when we arrived we were greeted by the island's resident band 'the bali boys' and given sea shell necklaces, which was a nice change from the cockroaches that greeted us at magnums!
we were taken into the hotel and given complimentary drinks and shown to our amazing room!
this is the view of the main foyer of the hotel from the top floor.
we spent most of our time at mermaid beach, with this as our view!
one of the locals from the island would show his face at least once a day, which was amazing as he came so close and would sneak up on unsuspecting holidaymakers giving them quite a shock!
the island is really small and it only takes about 10 minutes to walk from the north end (where our room, our pool and mermaid beach are) to the south end, which has a few shops, a bakery, another smaller pool and beach.
we had lunch at the bakery and if you sit outside you can sit right by the side of the man made lagoon style aquarium.
we tried and tried to get a good picture of this fish but it always shot past us, then we'd put the camera away and it would swim slowly by taunting us. we finally got a good'un though.
here's a few pictures from the south end of the island. the "mocktail" we are drinking was called an 'is it nemo' and was fantastic, we drank quite a few.
these are the three brothers. local legend says that the captain of the ship they worked on buried treasure on the island which the three brothers went back to find. once on the island they saw medusa who turned them to stone. it is said that if you can undo this curse they will show you where the treasure is buried.
ooo, another weird little story we found out while on daydream was that in the 1930's "knockabout adventurer" leslie thompson sailed his scooner through the whitsunday's on his way to the gold fields of new guinea. he drove onto rocks in a storm one night and the story and pictures made the papers in sydney. a sydney film director saw the picture of the swashbuckling sailor and offered him the lead role in his new film 'the wake of the bounty'. it was the beginning of the hollywood career of errol flynn. (we had a book about the history of daydream island in our room, which had loads of little facts and storys in)
anyway, back to our time at daydream...
on our first night on daydream we got dressed and went to see what there was to eat. we soon found out that there was only two restaraunts open and both required pre booking... luckily we still had some weet-bix (not to be confused with the far better english weetabix) left over from our stay in yorkeys knob. so we went back to the room and had weet-bix with tiny hotel portion milk and sugar (from the "tea and coffee making facilities!") ... which was a lot of fun!
the second night we ate at 'mermaids' a really nice restaraunt, which funnily enough is just off mermaids beach. we had some amazing soup there... rivalling that
of 'the hunters inn' (dad can you book me, you, greg and grandad in for another meal when we're back? mmm). anyway, after the meal we went for a walk along the beach and saw some wallabies! we were really close to them...
at the north end of the island the aquarium was far better than the one at the south end. this one was far bigger and had lots of sting rays, sharks and fish in and there was a lot more coral.
we found nemo hiding in the coral but his dad wouldn't come out for a picture.
and that's just about it... oh apart from greg running off with some girl... he soon got bored and came back though.
3 comments:
great to see all of the pics, they are very welcome on a cold and grey Winter afternoon in Poynton. have fun with your visitors.
Have they arrived yet, or are they in a Bangkok prison?
Will Gc be posting the pictures of his misadventures with the Bangkok locals?
It does look fun indeed, though not a patch on the triple bill of Quantum Leap that's just coming to an end on ITV3.
Looks like you been putting a few too many shrimps on the barbie. And Gregs been eating them. Looks like you'll need gym membership by the time you get back mate!!
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