Hamilton Island Wedding Anniversary

Posted by geoff on January 7, 2009

Hi Guys,

Just wanted to let you all know how great our time on Hamilton Island was for us. We had an amazing few days, living like the “Rich & Famous’.

The island is just like the travel brochures with wavey palm trees ( lots of them) azure blue waters and heaps of fancy yachts & boats. We were blessed with the weather – just perfect. A bit on the hot side but that was to be expected as it is December and we are in the tropics. Out plane trip over was comfortable and it really didn’t take all that long before we touched down on the beautiful tropical Island. Despite our long walk across the hot tarmac to the terminal our excitement grew as we saw the many and varied tourists as excited about their holiday as we were. We felt like VIP’s as our names were called and we were met by 2 handsome guys who took us and our bags back to our fantastic resort. Nothing seemed to be a trouble to the staff who were all so welcoming & helpful.

Our room or should I say ‘suite’ was on the top floor (19th), providing us with the most amazing views over the island and some surrounding islands, ie Whitsunday Island. We felt like we were in paradise – well, almost. The food was delicious and there were numerous places dotted around the island where we could indulge. We had to watch the ‘indulge’ bit or we surely would ‘bulge’. First evening as this was our 50th wedding anniversary we checked out the famous Pizza Resturant overlooking the harbour. The pizzas did not disappoint us, neither did the so called sexy cocktail we had prior to our dinner to start the evening off. Very nice indeed.

We mustn’t forget the breakfasts at the resort, these were included in our stay. All you could imagine – everything you ever wanted or dreamed of was on the menu. Our biggest dilemma for the day, what culinary delight to choose? It didn’t take us too long to decide what we wanted and we started each day off well fed and watered! There’s heaps to do on the island, so no chance of getting bored! The numerous swimming pools were all so inviting. We could have rented a gold type buggy to transport ourselves around but decided we really needed too “hoof” it as much as possible as we needed the exercise. However, we did weaken at times catching the little oh so free bus to various parts of the island. The 3rd night we really spoilt ourselves and booked for a dinner cruise aboard a lovely ol 107’ Huon Pine Vessel (came from Tasmania), called ‘Denison Star’. Despite a rather wild storm breaking over us as we left the harbour we throughly enjoyed our romantic dinner even though we had to forego the famous tropical sunset – no way that night! We did meet some great people and had lots of laughs.

The last night we celebrated Bills 75th birthday having dinner at a superb seafood restaurant called ‘Marinas’, overlooking the brightly lit harbour & fancy boats, very nice indeed too.

All too soon our time on lovely Hamilton Island was over – time to head for home. After quite a wait at the terminal we found ourselves once more tramping across the ‘baking’ tarmac to our waiting plane.

Now we are home and as most holidays go, we have some beautiful memories and some fantastic photographs of our time spent in paradise and wonder where the next exciting trip will be?!