“RETRACING OUR STEPS WE LAUGHED AT OUR EARLIER EFFORTS TO KEEP OUR NOW SODDEN SHOES DRY”
HEAVY rain was predicted for our first week of rambling around the tracks on the Whitsunday Islands, but this didn’t dampen our spirits. Hey, the rain’s warm up here. On day one from Shute Harbour, Phil on his Island Transfers boat dropped us off at a well named Sandy Bay on uninhabited South Molle Island. Our trek was 18km of “wow!” and “wow!” again.
The vegetation and views change at every corner. The wide winding track took us up to views of blue water far below and over and through hundreds, thousands, of xanthorrhoea, grass trees. The occasional lorikeet perched at the top of some the flowering spikes, and the xanthorrhoea grass trees’ thick black stems surrounded us close to the path. We then walked past forest trees sadly being strangled by butterfly pea vines. We branched left then clambered up to have a picnic on Balancing Rock.
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