The Solway Lass - Whitsundays!!!!!

Oh my God, Oh my God, Oh my God. Amazing, Fantastic, Stunning, Superb, Wonderful,AWESOME,GEOrgeous, and any other superlative you can think of!!

This was definitely our favourite part so far! There was not one single second of it that we didn't love. The ship was just astounding. A 100 year old tall ship and she's still going strong. There was a group of about 26 and everyone got on like a house on fire (look at all the photos in the gallery!)and the crew was just fab! We got fed roughly every 2 hours and you wouldn't even be hungry but you still ate. We put on about a stone in 3 days!! No backpacker food for us!

We boarded the ship at 7.30pm on the 5th of August. We sailed til about 9pm and then we got our first feed - yummy, our chefs, Lee and Myles were world class!! Everyone had a few drinks and went to bed early!

The next morning we had breakfast at 7am and then headed to White Haven Beach. This is literally heaven on earth! It has the softest sand in the world and is just perfect. We lay around, swam and Anne played frisbie with the lads (she's becoming quite a pro!) We were only here for 2 hours unfortunately. We considered staying and letting them pick us up on the way home in 2 days time! We just chilled on the boat for the afternoon and played cards. It was a fabulous day. We had a bit of a sing song that eve but I still headed to bed early enough, that Maguire one on the other hand was up til all hours with the lads, tut tut, what would her mother think?!

The next morning started with brekkie and the rope swing. This was such a laugh and we're so annoyed that we didn't get pics of ourselves doing it. A great way to get rid of any cobwebs!! Then it was off snorkelling for a while. The water was bloody freezing but the colours of the fish were so amazing. Some went snorkelling again in the afternoon, but we went to bed!! I know, I know!! We started playing cards again that evening, a mixture of Stop the Bus and Ibble Dibble. Alison of course was the biggest loser of all

That evening we went over to Coral Beach for sunset. It was such a perfect setting. We had a bottle of champagne (each!) and enjoyed the view of the Solway Lass with the sun setting behind her. What a sight! Then it was back aboard for dinner, drinking and more games (including the box game, of which Anne was the winner, God she's flexible! She was able to pick a peanut of the floor, with her mouth that is! Then there was rock the boat, something with a brush, I don't exactly know what I was doing in that photo
!), followed by star gazing on the roof until 3.30am (or 5.30am if you're Anne!)

To say that we were suffering a bit the next day is a bit of an understatement (for some!) It was also a very windy day (the boat actually got up to 9 knots and apparently that's a first) which meant it was quite rough and some people were feeling more than quite rough!! Sadly we got back to port at 4pm, despite discussions of a mutiny and becoming pirates for the rest of ourlives!! The toilets started smelling really bad so we decided against that plan! It was so sad to leave the ship, we really wanted to stay for a few more days.

We were all meeting up for dinner later that night. Everyone was wrecked and still swaying from the rough journey. It was such a downer to be off the boat, but we still had a good night out. The wet t-shirt contest was really quite interesting. Needless to say neither of us took part!!

So that be the end of the Solway Lass until the next time we go back, and we will be back!!