N&M's Globe » Australia http://www.nmglobe.com Follow us around the globe Mon, 18 Jul 2016 12:06:18 +0000 de-DE hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.38 Sailing the Whitsundays http://www.nmglobe.com/sailing-the-whitsundays/ http://www.nmglobe.com/sailing-the-whitsundays/#comments Sun, 01 Jun 2014 23:11:04 +0000 http://www.nmglobe.com/?p=1163 There are so many places to discover the Great Barrier Reef along the east coast that it wasn’t easy to decide where we wanted to do it. As we also wanted to go on a sailing trip and discover the Whitsunday Islands and Whitehaven Beach, we decided to combine all of that. So we arrived in Airlie Beach as our last stop in Australia before heading back to Sydney to fly on to Singapore. We spent one whole day exploring the Islands on Jetski. That was so much fun! Speeding across the ocean and jumping massive waves was a great adrenalin rush :) The following two days we spent on a sailing boat and sailed out to the reef to go snorkeling. What a fabulous trip! We had booked a tour on a former racing boat with a small group. The skipper was really doing what he loved most: we took advantage of the partly cloudy weather and great wind speeds and had the sails up almost the whole time, passing dolphins on the way. Mathias absolutely loved helping out the crew. We stopped at Whitehaven Beach to see one of the whitest beaches on the planet and the beautiful scenery that unfolds when the tide goes out.  After some relaxing time there, we sailed into the sunset and anchored at a quiet bay where we went snorkeling the next morning. Even though we didn’t have enough sunshine to light up the reef colours to their perfect beauty, it was still simply incredible to see the reef in all its different shapes and colours with hundreds of different fish swimming everywhere. And we even saw a turtle ;)!! It was such a perfect finish to our tour through Australia. We will definately be back here to do a longer sailing tour.

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The drive from Melbourne to Yarra Valley was only a bit over an hour. We drove straight to the De Bortoli Estate which is a very welcoming and friendly family estate with not only a beautiful winery and good wine, but also very good food. We were thinking of having lunch there, but were out of luck as all tables were booked out for the whole day. So instead we went straight to the wine tasting and that was something different than in NZ. While in NZ you usually got 3-5 wines to taste, here they just gave you every single one on the list! So half way through we had to decide that Mathias will continue driving and I will finish the tasting :). I actually liked their Bubbles very much and to my suprise I was incredibly impressed by their dessert wine ‚Noble One‘. I usually don’t like dessert wines as I find them too sweet, but this was really something else. So smooth with a delicious mild sweetness. As I then learned, this is one of the most awarded dessert wines world wide since 30 years and the wine that makes this estate so known internationally. Look it up online, you might have had it :).

Next on the list was Domain Chandon, which you might correctly guess was established by the French Moet et Chandon. The estate was accordingly high class and yet just as welcoming as the other. Or maybe we were just luckily, as our waiter was half German and very eager to practise his German with us. The tasting was of course outstanding. The Sparkling Pinot Shiraz tasted like heaven to me and I had to discover with a heavy heart that it is only available in Australia, as here they are allowed to mix the grapes. Moet et Chandon in France is tied to the French regulations under which they are not allowed to do that. Well, that gave us the best reason to buy a bottle to enjoy it on our planned Great Ocean Road sunset.

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