Long Island

Long Island is one of the Whitsunday Islands and is accessible via a boat from Shute Harbour up near Airlie Beach. Long Island is mainly national park with 13km (or 20km as stated elsewhere!) of bush walking tracks amongst rainforest leading to secluded beaches.
There are 3 resorts on the island, and we were going to the Long Island Beach resort as we had got a good deal on t’internet and booked it, packed and headed off at the weekend!
However, this particular time we weren’t there for the walks, we just wanted to relax in the sun for a few days. We caught the ferry at 2pm and 20 minutes later we were being transported on a golf-buggy train to the hotel. We had a hotel rep go through all the facilities (pools, spa, games room, free buffet meals, mini golf, tennis, walks etc etc) and we felt like we had arrived on a two-week holiday!
We were straight down to the pool and sunbathed for the afternoon at the main pool overlooking the beach and sea – instant relaxation!