Finally…. here are some photos of our holiday to Hamiltion Island. As you can see, the weather was a little overcast, but still hot enough to go swimming every day (which Daphne loved). I spared you all by not posting any photos of me being 26 weeks pregnant in a bikini, I did cop a few looks from some older people around the pool, but hey - 1) its natural, and 2) im never going to see those people again, so why not flaunt it! 
Anyway, before we flew out, Stu & I took a walk around Manly, and he started going crazy at some big beefy guys holding some brown trophy… he begged me to take a photo of him holding it. He’s tried explaining to me what it is, but hey – im the girl that spent 80 minutes talking to girlfriends during this years footy grandfinal!
On to the holiday (after almost missing our flight… thats a whole other post!). This is the view from our room:
Day 2 of our holiday took us to Whitehaven Beach. Yes, it really is as magical as all the photos make it out to be, only trouble was the boat that got us there, dropped us off at the other end to all the beautiful sandbars you see in the advertising material (and told us that we didn’t have time to walk there and back), and then we were warned about swimming in the water, as the stingers were out this time of year (if you get stung, you stop breathing, not good for baby). So, we were stuck laying on a hot beach for 2 hours. And silly me forgot to take money for drinks. Oops. You live and learn. It was pretty special tho:
To kill some time, we did go for a short walk (so hard to go for a walk at the beach and NOT put your feet in the water!), and we ran into these guys on a canoe. Now, anyone that knows me will know that I struggle with accents, um, I think they were French? Seriously, you’d have to be from another country to canoe around the Whitsundays in 30+ temp! Anyway, they asked if I could take a photo of them with their camera, so then I asked if I could take one with mine. Lovely guys, I hope they made it to ‘honey island’, which im sure they said they were headed (Stu & I looked on a map, we couldn’t find it anywhere… um, good luck fellas!)
Stu went deep-sea fishing, and actually caught a fish! I was so proud of him, as I think he’s only caught 1 or 2 fish in his whole life! Check out his t-shirt… I tried to hide it when he got back to the unit, but oh-no, it managed to come home with us, stinking out the rest of the suitcase…..
And no holiday is complete without a lovely self-portrait of Stu & I (taken by Stu, with the point & shoot), just to prove we were actually there. Smile!
There you go, the Walkers have now down Hamilton Island!
lauren xx
