Day 114/115 - Daydream Island

Day 114 - Thursday - 10/9/2026

This morning after yet another delicious breakfast we went on a short walk to the other side of the island where there was giant chess, another pool stands up paddleboards and kayaks and a tennis court. Unfortunately the wind was very strong meaning we didn't do anything on the water.  After a quick game of giant chess, we did the rainforest walk back to the main part of the island and on the way stopped at two spectaculars lookouts. 
Giant Chess




Us at the lookout

In the afternoon we went to the Coral Restoration Talk where we were told about a cyclone that came through in 2017 and destroyed all the reef. The members of daydream island are trying to restore the reef buy collecting fragments of coral and attaching them to structures until the regrow and are ready to be released into the wild. At the talk the guy gave us some magnifying glasses to look at the regenerating coral with.

Using the magnifying glass


Day 115 - Friday - 11/9/2026

Today was our second last breakfast buffet which shortly after at 10:45 me and Seb participated in the Stingray Splash where we got to pat and feed some slimy stingrays and shovel nose rays. Both of the two types of rays where slimy except for the shovel shaped nose on the shovel nose rays which were hard. 



Shovelnose Ray

The stingrays where a lot easier to feed and pat too because they swam closer to the surface of the water unlike the shovel nose rays which swam closer to the ground and went over the top of each other and sometimes tried to swim through your legs.


Me patting a Blue-spotted Stingray

There were also a lot more shovelnose rays (approximately 10) than stingrays which there was only 2 of. Afterwords we had lunch and then Me, Dad and Mum went snorkelling at lovers cove but the visibility was a lot worse than the first day we were here. Soon we went for a walk along the rocks where we saw some interesting creatures and coral. 


Living shells


Before dinner Me, Dad, Grandma and Grandpa competed in the trivia which we came equal first in. 


Our trivia page

For our final dinner at Daydream, we went back to Infinity where we had another delicious meal.



Day 116- Saturday - 12/9/2026


Today we had our final breakfast buffet and then spent our final hours on Daydream Island looking at fish, playing Table Tennis and packing our bags to go back to Airlie Beach. We boarded the ferry at eleven and arrived at port of Airlie around 11:30 where we then went to the caravan park where we set up and went for a swim.


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