it's funny where things take you
a tea-t
owel purchased on ebay can bring on future holidays...
hook island queensland i had never heard of this place before
i looked it up
a national park with a
dinky down at heel resort (top rooms are the ones with an en suite
*the resort has changed hands and is to be redeveloped - from reviews it doesn't sound as if the development has taken place yet. sounds like the new oweners aren't bothering too much with the state of the old place in the meantime. the new resort will be much bigger and will be "eco" ... )
camping grounds are part of the resort - i like the sound of camping.
although there are other
camp sites, these are only accessible by boat, which in the whitsundays means a
yachta
description of the island's attractions:
Hook Island General Information: Hook is rugged and a true wilderness island. 
Hook Peak, at 459 metres, is the highest mountain on the Island. One of the few walking tracks leads to Butterfly Bay - named so because of its unique shape and the butterflies which swarm around its shores.
Two magnificent five kilometre fjord-like inlets, Nara and Macona cut into the southern end of Hook Island to provide a spectacular anchorage for yachts. People refill their water tanks from the cascading waterfalls.
The diversity of coral of the fringing reefs on the northern shores provide some of the best diving and snorkelling in the area...
The observatory on Hook Island (which seems to have been made for the Life Aquatic set! cool!!) allows visitors to descend nine metres below the ocean to view coral, reef animals and plants in their own habitat. 
There are marine biologists on hand to explain the wonders of the reef. 
oh and this! hook island was the site of a "nessie"-type hoax, what's all this talk about sea-monsters?
how to get there?fly - both jetstar and virgin go to prosperine, the airport on the whitsunday coast, but the jetstar site won't show flights going from melbourne to the whitsundays (not sophisticated enough to cope with connecting flights apparently), and then says "no flights available" if you try to help by asking for for flights from brisbane.
the cheapest flights with vb are $199 each way.
once there,
fly overhead
i blogged this title on evilmonika, about vws travel all over the countryside (1) 
