4th July 2017 - Hamilton Island (last day)

Tuesday 4^th July 2017

Hamilton Island marina

Whitsundays, QUEENSLAND..

We got a lift in a buggy on our way to the airport

Yesterday I went for a last walk around the beautiful island.

Everything is greening up and recovering fast.

I went right along Catseye beach and took a photo of Frangipani 101, where the Thomases stayed, above Catseye Beach.

When they weren’t on 2XS, they spent a lot of time in various beachside pools and resorts.  All very lovely.  But…on their last day they discovered…at the very end of the frangipani building…a lovely little lagoon pool and BBQ area, just for them…

This reminded me of when we were in India, with Vin and Anne.  We spent three very VERY hot days in a half-finished hotel, the Jackson Narmada, in Jablapur.  We ventured out every day to explore the fabulous marble gorge and the temples, and arrived back in the evening to puff and pant in our sweltering rooms.  On our LAST day, when we were catching a train at lunchtime, we found…hidden away down an unprepossessing corridor, a tranquil oasis with a large blue pool, cool, inviting, clean, with hovering waiters hoping for the opportunity to bring us glasses of chilled Kingfisher beer as we floated past them.

Peter Frappell has arrived.  He is expecting his son and three friends, arriving as we leave today.

He brought a shiny new hawser, seen here with the old one in the foreground.  A thing of beauty!

This morning I am doing the last bit of washing and drying and packing and handing over of leftovers to Peter.  And tonight my life will change drastically…I hope my iPhone full of podcasts, books and Nashville episodes will carry me through the many hours in the sky…