Summer Adventures in Australia Part V: Hamilton Island

If only Lotte wasn’t totally over photos, this one coulda been a keeper 😉

Hi, friends — happy Saturday! Welcome to our Aussie Summer Adventures, Installment No. 5 … Hamilton Island!

(Click here for Sydney, here for Canberra, here for Melbourne and here for Airlie Beach.)

We hopped the ferry from Airlie Beach around noon on Friday and headed over to Hamilton Island. The last time Chris and I had been was for our honeymoon back in 2013, so we were super excited for this leg of our trip!

We stayed at Chris’ aunt’s and uncle’s place for two nights, which was beyond what we could have imagined. The place was gorgeous. The beach was so much fun. The sunsets were unbelievable. There were wallabies everywhere.

In other words, it was pretty much paradise.

Cranky faces here, but the ferry was a super fun experience!

Everyone rides buggies around the island, which is quite the adventure. You can only have four people in a buggie at a time, though, so we did something we’ve never done before on this trip … leave Lotte alone for a couple minutes! She did amazing under the instruction of no food or showers while we were gone. She’s basically ready for college now.

Look at this insane view! Lotte said it was one of her best days <3

These girls had the BEST time on the beach!

WE EVEN SWAM NEXT TO STING RAYS AND SHARKS! How that was okay, I’ll never know.

Burying each other in sand was also a ton of fun, naturally.

Watching the sunset at One Tree H ill is a must when in Hamilton Island.

We only had one full day in Hamilton, sadly, so we made the most of the beach on Saturday. Chris took the girls out on a paddle board, we went back to snorkel around the area again, we made sand castles, had a beach picnic and just generally relaxed the day away.

For kids who never see the beach, these girlies sure knew how to make the most of the experience.

Gathering seashells and burying ourselves in sand were high on the list of fave activities.

Fun and exhausting, was Chris’ assessment.

Thanks for an awesome time, Hammo! We sure hope to be back.

Tomorrow we leave for Brisbane, where we’ll be until Wednesday. Then we head back to Sydney for a couple of days before flying home in exactly one week. This has absolutely been the trip of a lifetime. We’re the luckiest to have been able to go on it.

Until next post … bis bald, friends!