Gnads wrote Today at 11:28am:
Went to Airlie on honeymoon in Oct 1977. Drove up there in a white 74 model Holden HQ Kingswood. My cousin was working at the then new Airlie Beach Resort.
We stayed with her - did a few tours out from Shute Harbour.
A float plane Pilot was killed whilst we were there, he clipped powerlines on the hills around Shute Harbour when he was coming in for a landing - flipped the plane over and into the water ....
by the time a couple of local divers got to the plane and got him out he had drowned.
Anyways like a lot of places on the east coast that become popular tourist attractions I believe Airlie is over commercialised & geared for the foreign tourist(expensive).
Just like the Gold Coast, the Sunshine Coast, Hervey Bay and Yeppoon.
I have no plans to go back to Airlie.
I could tell the old Honeymooners joke but I won't.
What’s the old joke?
Anyway, I think Airlie Beach is over commercialised. There is no nice beach there!
It’s only good for the catamaran terminal to go to other islands.
The only place I wouldn’t mind going to stay (direct flight is good, with free bus pick up going around every 40 mins) is Hamilton Island.
Your honeymoon sounds better …and better car too!
We drove to Merimbula 1976 (before it was a good tourist area) in my 1968 HR Holden. Which btw…the alternator went defunct!
We couldn’t turn car off as it wouldn’t start again.
Found an old fashioned service station that had old car parts and he had an alternator once fitted, it worked!
Geez hey! Memories
Decided Merimbula was boring, weather wasn’t hot enough for beach, so after 3 days drive back home!
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