Airlie Beach - day 38

We spent the whole night in the bus, which was actually pretty confortable for once (lots of leg room and good inclining seats). We were stuck in Townsville for 3 hours cause the new driver didn't show up and only arrived in Airlie Beach at 12h45. We walked to our hostel (the Airlie Waterfront Backpackers) and dropped our luggage. We got a double room, that kind of looked like a prison cell... We went to Oz Sailing to check in for our sailing trip due to start tomorrow and found out that our boat (the Mandrake) had mechanical problems and was cancelled!! After some negotiations, we were upgraded onto Spank Me (haha!), a bigger boat (23,5 meters), for 3 days and 3 nights instead of 2 days and 2 nights. On top of that we get a free dive and free luggage storage! In total we saved up more than 450 dollars thanks to this free upgrade!! For lunch we headed to an italian restaurant which wasn't too bad. Then we walked around town, only to find out that it is really tiny and there isn't that much to do... There is a nice beach though, with beautiful turquoise water and it looks like you are allowed to swim there!

Weather: warm, but cloudy