We (Anthony and Emma Colfelt) are researching the walks, campsites and resorts of the Whitsundays to develop content for the well known book by Anthony’s parents, David and Carolyn Colfelt 100 Magic Miles of the Great Barrier Reef – The Whitsunday Islands, and potential new books by Windward Publications. In typical starving writers’ style, we are for the most part camping and travelling it in an old runabout held together with Sikaflex, which so far has stayed afloat and been a trusty steed… well, mostly.

Just to give you a sense of what we’re trying to accomplish whilst we’re up here on the latest research trip, below is the list of islands we are hoping to visit – all of which have a campsite or bushwalks, resorts, or all of the above. You can also see the ones we’ve been to so far on our Google Map, and they are crossed out below.

Northern group:

• Gloucester, Saddleback and Armit (all in one trip)

Central group:

• South Molle
• Whitsunday
• Henning
• Tancred, Denman, Planton, North Molle
• Hook and Hayman
• Long
• Hamilton

Southern group:

• Lindeman, Shaw and Seaforth
• Newry, Outer Newry and Rabbit
• South Repulse
• Brampton and Carlisle
• Keswick, Cockermouth and Scawfell

We’re not expecting to get through all of them. At least Hamilton and Long could be done via ferry or boat transfer next May after our family camping trip to Masthead Island in the Capricornia Cays group a bit further south. And we’re not sure yet how we’re going to get out to Carlisle, Brampton and some of the others that are in the Southern group, as they might be a bit far for our little old boat.

Anyway – it’s great fun working our way through the list! We hope you enjoy the blog!