Gillian Everett's photos with the keyword: Whitsundays

Took many photos of trees during the week, but I like this archive view of the Whitsunday Passage on Hamilton Island. TSC Trees

View from apartment. Hamilton Island, Queensland. Whitsundays 2014 Zero editing, as seen. TSC Grey Alternative in the Note on this image

View from the Passage Peak walk to Whitsunday Passage and Whitsunday Island. Spectacular views. Many islands in the Whitsunday group, popular for yachts and cruise boats. One of our favourite places for a holiday. Hamilton Island is one and a half hours flying time North of Brisbane in Queensland. Whitsundays July 2014

The original image is "Looking out to Whitsunday Island", separately clickable in the Note on this image :-) Created, using my own texture, in PicMonkey. TSC Texture overlay

From Passage Peak on Hamilton Island. Whitsunday Island is accessible by boat from the mainland tourist ports of Airlie Beach and Shute Harbour. It contains many popular destinations for both day visitors and overnight sailors, including the magnificent pure-white sands of Whitehaven Beach and Hill Inlet, the secure anchorage of Cid Harbour, and the sheltered waterway of Gulnare Inlet. The island has six campgrounds. Named by Captain James Cook in early June 1770, the island covers 27,508 ha (275.08 km2) in area. Around the northern bays of the island are seagrass beds which support a diverse range of marine life.

Holiday in the Whitsundays, Queensland! Captain James Cook, then a lieutenant in the Royal Navy, passed through these islands in 1770, on his first voyage around the world in the Endeavour. 'Indeed the whole passage is one continued safe harbour,' he noted on the morning of Sunday, 3 June. It was Whitsun, the seventh Sunday after Easter and the feast of Pentecost, so Cook named it the Whitsunday Passage and one of what he called the Cumberland Islands -- Pentecost Island. With over 90 islands stretching from Bowen in the north to the Repulse Islands in the south, the Whitsunday group is part of Australia’s largest offshore island chain, known as the Cumberland group. All the islands and their surrounding waters (collectively known as 'the Whitsundays') have international protection as part of the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area. In addition, some islands have been declared national parks by the Queensland Government. TSC an advertising poster - contemporary or vintage. a made up product or service. let your imagination run wild, and your photography wilder...

We were staying on Hamilton Island and on Sunday did the walk to Passage Peak which overlooks the Whitsunday Passage, named by Captain James Cook in 1770. Portuguese explorers may have been the first Europeans to visit this part of the Australian coast, but for the record it was Captain Cook, then a lieutenant in the Royal Navy, who passed through these islands on his first voyage around the world in the Endeavour. On the night of 1 June 1770 he anchored off what today is Mackay, and two days later sailed through a blue stretch of water dotted with islands. 'Indeed the whole passage is one continued safe harbour,' he noted on the morning of Sunday, 3 June. It was Whitsun, the seventh Sunday after Easter and the feast of Pentecost, so Cook named it the Whitsunday Passage and one of what he called the Cumberland Islands -- Pentecost Island. Quite a challenging walk but very rewarding at Passage Peak. Spectacular views. Many islands in the Whitsunday group, popular for yachts and cruise boats. One of our favourite places for a holiday. Hamilton Island is one and a half hours flying time North of Brisbane in Queensland.

View of the resort and Catseye Beach from the Passage Peak walk. Whitsundays 2014 With over 90 islands stretching from Bowen in the north to the Repulse Islands in the south, the Whitsunday group is part of Australia’s largest offshore island chain, known as the Cumberland group. All the islands and their surrounding waters (collectively known as 'the Whitsundays') have international protection as part of the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area. In addition, some islands have been declared national parks by the Queensland Government.

Whitsunday Passage. Whitsundays 2014 With over 90 islands stretching from Bowen in the north to the Repulse Islands in the south, the Whitsunday group is part of Australia’s largest offshore island chain, known as the Cumberland group. All the islands and their surrounding waters (collectively known as 'the Whitsundays') have international protection as part of the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area. In addition, some islands have been declared national parks by the Queensland Government.

We were staying on Hamilton Island and on Sunday did the walk to Passage Peak which overlooks the Whitsunday Passage, named by Captain James Cook in 1770. Quite a challenging walk but very rewarding at Passage Peak. Spectacular views. Many islands in the Whitsunday group, popular for yachts and cruise boats. One of our favourite places for a holiday. Hamilton Island is one and a half hours flying time North of Brisbane in Queensland.

View of Perseverance and Pentecost Islands from Passage Peak. We were staying on Hamilton Island and on Sunday did the walk to Passage Peak which overlooks the Whitsunday Passage, named by Captain James Cook in 1770. Quite a challenging walk but very rewarding at Passage Peak. Spectacular views. Many islands in the Whitsunday group, popular for yachts and cruise boats. One of our favourite places for a holiday. Hamilton Island is one and a half hours flying time North of Brisbane in Queensland. Whitsundays 2014

We travelled with Cruise Whitsundays from Hamilton Island, via Daydream Island to Abell Point. The impressive marina has at least doubled in size since the last time we visited. An outline history of the marina is in the first comment. The first settler and land owner of the area now known as Airlie Beach was Thomas Abell, from Herefordshire in England. With direct access to the Whitsundays 74 Islands and Great Barrier Reef, Abell Point Marina is located in Airlie Beach, North Queensland, 30 minutes from Proserpine Airport or a ferry transfer from Hamilton Island Airport. Protected by its uniquely designed iconic breakwater, Abell Point Marina is the largest marina of its type in Australia, giving it the well earned reputation as the tourism, transport and recreation hub of the Whitsundays region. marinasguide.com.au/premium/qldabelpoint.htm Whitsundays July 2014

We travelled with Cruise Whitsundays from Hamilton Island, via Daydream Island to Abell Point. The impressive marina has at least doubled in size since the last time we visited. An outline history of the marina is in the first comment. The first settler and land owner of the area now known as Airlie Beach was Thomas Abell, from Herefordshire in England. With direct access to the Whitsundays 74 Islands and Great Barrier Reef, Abell Point Marina is located in Airlie Beach, North Queensland, 30 minutes from Proserpine Airport or a ferry transfer from Hamilton Island Airport. Protected by its uniquely designed iconic breakwater, Abell Point Marina is the largest marina of its type in Australia, giving it the well earned reputation as the tourism, transport and recreation hub of the Whitsundays region. marinasguide.com.au/premium/qldabelpoint.htm Whitsundays July 2014

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Whitsunday group of islands in Queensland. Taken at Hamilton Island Yacht Club. Zero editing. TSC2 Sunrise/Sunset

A favourite spot on Hamilton Island. Panoramic views of the Whitsunday Passage and Islands. It really doesn't get better than this. We just love the place and keep going back. www.hamiltonisland.com.au/

Looking out over the thatched house(centre), home of George Harrison, on Hamilton Island. We spent 3 weeks in the Whitsundays just after Cyclone Joy had passed through. We saw the sun once for 15 minutes. It rained most of the time and there was very low visibility so we spent most of the time in Hamilton Island Marina, but we had a great time.. December 1990/ January 1991 TC Joy formed on the 18 December south of the Solomon Islands and had a general southwestward direction. It reached peak intensity on the 23 December (940 hPa) with maximum sustained winds of 90 knots. It eventually dissipated on the 27 south of Townsville. TC Joy had entailed severe damages in Port Douglas and in the Mackay and Pioneer Valley districts. bom.gov.au/cyclone/history/joy.shtml

Looking over the Whitsunday Passage. Origin of the name ‘Whitsundays European discoverer James Cook didn’t name the islands but rather ‘Whitsunday’s Passage’, which was the passage between Cape Conway (20° 22’S, 148° 55’E, the tip of the mainland on the west) and the islands lying to the east of this. That Sunday in June 1770 when he passed through was Whit Sunday, the celebration on the Christian calendar that takes place on the 49th day (7 weeks) after Easter Sunday. The term is derived from Old English meaning “White Sunday”, after the white robes of those newly baptised at Pentecost, the fiftieth day after the second day of the Passover. 100magicmiles.com/index.php/intro-to-whitsundays.html