Whitsunday Sailing Club: Sense of excitement in the air
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29 Jun 2012: There is a sense of excitement in the air as impressive yachts start arriving in Arilie Beach and the number of entries for Telcoinabox Airlie Beach Race Week rapidly increases and includes a diverse variety of yachts in 10 different divisions. With two of the fastest yachts in the southern hemisph [more...]
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Press Release: Valuable sponsors return to Whitsunday Reef Festival
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11 Jun 2012: Porters Hardware, Telstra Whitsunday, Rotary Club of Airlie Beach and Airlie Beach Hotel are amongst the leaders in supporting the 2012 Whitsunday Reef Festival, 16 – 19 August. Their valuable cash sponsorship secures the naming rights and running of the Friday night Reef Fireworks, Saturday afterno [more...]
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Introducing the Blind Mans Dinghy Race!
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05 Jun 2012: The Whitsunday Reef Festival will see the arrival of a new event in 2012. In step with the festival's combining with the Fun Race organised by the Whitsunday Sailing Club, Saturday morning at Airlie Beach proper will see the first ever running of a "blind man's dinghy race".
The rules for the eve [more...]
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Airlie Beach Hottest Spot In August
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02 Jun 2012: Airlie Beach will be the hottest spot in Queensland on the weekend 16 – 19 August when the Reef Festival joins up with the Great Whitsunday Fun Race for an entertaining weekend. Coming right on the back of Airlie Beach Race Week, the place will be buzzing with activity for the biggest festival and p [more...]
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Whitsunday Reef Festival 2011 wrap
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24 Oct 2011: The eleventh Whitsunday Reef Festival was held over the 4 days 20-23rd October 2011. Despite some “Belgium summer” skies, the festival registered in excess of 10,000 event attendances across the 4 days. Events ranged from the ticketed comedy, dining and fashion events to free concerts headlined by T [more...]
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Beach Music Chill in the Park
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23 Oct 2011: Sunday afternoon at the beach has never been so “chilled”. Whitsunday Reef Festival wrapped up with a relaxed afternoon under the trees, beside the sea as more 1000 people drifted in to the space around the Beach Music stage and enjoy the various entertainers including “The Twine”, “Cactus”, “Natura [more...]
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Telstra Whtisunday Family Fun Day
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23 Oct 2011: The Telstra Whitsunday Family Fun Day turned out such a great morning for the more that 600 people in attendance. Blue skies started the show, along with some light music including the Prosperine State High School band and the Ukaholics (playing their first gig).
Amongst the trees and beside beac [more...]
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Consider the Reef Rocked
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23 Oct 2011: The Whitsunday Reef Festival reached a crescendo last night with Rockin the Reef bought to you by the Airlie Beach Main Street traders group. Many many sponsors made it possible to entertain an estimated 5000 people over an evening of musical diversity including The Black Sorrows, Paul Green and The [more...]
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Rotary Club of Airlie Beach Street Parade Mardi-Gras
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22 Oct 2011: More that 30 organisations and floats came out to be part of the Rotary Club of Airlie Beach Street Parade. Schools, companies, dance clubs, boat trips and service clubs made an extra effort to support the mardi-gras theme.
Organiser Bronwyn Garland and the Rotary judging panel had the hard job o [more...]
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ChannelWhitsunday.com Recyclable Regatta reminds and entertains.
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22 Oct 2011: Reef protection is a subject close to the hearts of all Whitsunday residents. The ChannelWhitsunday.com Recyclable Regatta is aimed at celebrating and reminding everyone of the importance of this fact.
Featuring 8 rafts for the 2011, the Recyclable Regatta is in its second year and appears to be [more...]
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Porters Reeffire entertains thousands
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21 Oct 2011: The Porters Reeffire lit up the grey evening for the entertainment of so many families and visitors to the Whitsundays on Friday night. Porters generous support of the second year has ensured that the Whitsunday Reef Festival includes the very important signature event that brings so much spectacle [more...]
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Comedy Gala laughs
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20 Oct 2011: 6 years into comedy and Lindsay Webb seems to have no intent to give up. Formally the world record holder for longest comedy act, Lindsay is never short of a word, a razor sharp angle or word of wit. Perhaps this is why he often gets very complimentary requests from politicians and lawyers, keen to [more...]
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Festival of Food - Palmers Lunch
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20 Oct 2011: Palmers Restaurant was the kick off point for the Whitsunday Reef Festival with over 50 people enjoying the fine dining experience at the TAFE training facility. [more...]
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Put your company, organisation or group in the street parade!
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12 Oct 2011: Businesses, organisations and youth groups, now is the time to get yourself organised to parade at this years Whitsunday Reef Festival Rotary Club of Airlie Beach Street Parade.
Promote your cause, your business or group as fun, personal and interesting by decorating a truck, ute or trailer and [more...]
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See Airlie Beach from overhead
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06 Oct 2011: Helibiz, based at the Whitsunday airport will be operating joy flights in their great R44 Robinson helicopters. These 4 seat flying machines will be circling Airlie Beach, Mandalay Point and around to Canonvale before returning to the Airlie Beach foreshore over the marina for just $50 per person.
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Support the New Years Eve fireworks
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01 Dec 2010: The 2010 Whitsunday Reef Festival committee has taken the challenge to arrange midnight fireworks on New Year’s Eve. We seek community support to enable us to stage this event.
We are seeking 200 donations of $74 - $1 for each of the magical 74 Whitsunday islands… We would be so grateful if you c [more...]
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Frocktails, Fashion TV and Fast Cars
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26 Nov 2010: Frocktails once again reinforced its place as the premium style event in Airlie Beach in 2010. Presented by Fashion TV, Frocktails went to a new level as cable TV arrived along with a fleet of prestige Audi cars to raise the bar on this already successful event.
With about 300 people at the event [more...]
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Graphic House Writers Competition Winning Entries
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12 Nov 2010: The 2010 Graphic House Writers Competition, part to the Big4 Adventure Reef Festival was a great success with many quality entries from schools across the Whitsunday area. The competition topics for this year were “Reef preservation” and “Our unique community”.
Funded by the Regional Arts and D [more...]
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O what fun - Telstra Whitsunday Family Fun Day
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26 Oct 2010: Under blue skies the Telstra Whitsunday Family Fun entertained hundreds of children and their parents. Across the morning there was a treasure hunt, free breakfast for the kids from Lions Club, egg and spoon races, face painting, jumping castle, donut eating competition and more!
Adjacent, the k [more...]
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Bareboat Open Day attracts new boaties
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25 Oct 2010: Reproduced from the Whitsunday Times
Meridien Marina's Abel Point Marina was the venue for the final bareboat
open day for 2010. As part of the Whitsunday Reef Festival a line up of
eleven vessels was put on display. The new Montebello 12.5 from...
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Success shines on Big 4 Adventure Whitsunday Reef Festival 2010
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25 Oct 2010: A winter of unseasonable bad weather and economic concerns blew away Friday just past as Whitsunday Reef Festival got under way.
Celebrating 10 years in 2010, the festival had come of age with the efforts of a dedicated committee with the support of Airlie Beach and Whitsunday businesses/
Acro [more...]
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Family Fun Day full of local delights
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24 Oct 2010: The sun shone on a brilliant day in the Whitsundays and the Telstra Whitsunday Family Fun Day. A large crowd of families came to experience a full day.
The “Made in The Whitsundays” brand promoting locally made products and food enabled festival goers to sample a wonderful range of seafood, jams, [more...]
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Consider the Reef Rocked
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23 Oct 2010: The Beach Music stage was the venue for an awesome mucisial display Saturday night of Big 4 Adventure Whitsunday Reef Festival 2010. Dom Turner and Co, before the Bar Flaring competition delighted the 600 sttrong crowd who then settled in for regional musical success story Swoon. Followed by the dan [more...]
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Street Parade madness
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23 Oct 2010: With a mass of people never before seen in Shute Harbour Road, Airlie Beach the Rotary Club of Airlie Beach Street Parade has been the most popular event of the festival ever.
Thank you for Rotary for organising the event with the assist of the local Police, festival volunteers and the over 34 fl [more...]
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Recycling and bareboats feature at the marina
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23 Oct 2010: Hundreds of people turned at Abel Point Marina to watch the spectacle of the inaugural Recycle Regatta. Sevens teams representing youth, families and corporates arrived with all manner of craft made from plastics and things found in the rubbish.
The first race was families and youth and hotly con [more...]
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Sanding Sculpting
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23 Oct 2010: Lots of families and kids hit the beach on Saturday the 23rd of October for the annual sand sculpting competition. The competition was fierce in some corners as the teams looked for the edge with thoughtful decorations, rapid fire shovelling and colouring
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VIDEO EZY STARLIGHT MOVIES RELOCATED
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22 Oct 2010: The Video Ezy Starlight Movies at the Lagoon have been relocated from the Airlie Beach Lagoon to Beach Plaza, on the Esplanade in Airlie Beach.
The overnight rain has left a very soggy viewing area at the lagoon, and so the movies have been moved indoors for optimum viewing pleasure!
All three m [more...]
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Blair comes to Whitsunday Reef Festival
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22 Oct 2010: Blair, famous from the original series of Big Brother and recently in Dancing with the Stars, is coming to Whitsunday Reef Festival. You will see him around the various events of Festival including the Recyclable Regatta, Street Parade, Rockin the Reef and Family Fun Day.
Be sure to come and say [more...]
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Now that was funny!
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21 Oct 2010: Airlie Day Spa was the sponsor of the Comedy Gala as part of Whitsunday Reef Festival 2010. A sell out crowd of 90 people supplied a great atmosphere at Waterline on Shingley to enjoy a non-stop laugh that seem to last over 2 hours!
Internationally renowned comedians Lindsay Webb and Mickey D fla [more...]
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Go Girl wins the Dress the Street competition
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21 Oct 2010: Sponsored by Airlie Beach Hotel the winner of the Dress the Street competition was Go Girl, located adjacent to McDonalds in Airlie Beach. [more...]
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Palmers Restaurant
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21 Oct 2010: Julia Wheway was delighted with the attendance at the Palmers Restaurant lunch as the kick off dining opportunity for the Whitsunday Reef Festival 2010 [more...]
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Scuplt the sand
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16 Oct 2010: Come to the Airlie beach foreshore Saturday morning and help sculpt the beach into an art gallery full of creativity. The zest design sand sculpting competition is free for everyone and welcomes family, kids and corporates to turn with spades buckets and spray bottles to bring your ideas to life.
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LOL :) :) :)
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14 Oct 2010: One week till the Whitsunday Reef Festival has placed a committee of great people on tender hooks about the success of the long weekend to come 21-24 October 2010. Now it is 10 th year, the festival has done well with the weather – so typical of October is clear skies and hot days and we enter the m [more...]
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Flair Gods hit Airlie
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30 Sep 2010: 8 of Australia and New Zealand's best Flair Bartenders will descend on the Big4 Adventure Whitsunday Reef Festival to battle it out to be the first ever "Airlie Flair God"!! Our 8 contestants will perform 5 minutes of the best Flair Bartending learned from working and performing in some of the best [more...]
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PCYC Recycled Raft launching with Jan Clifford
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27 Sep 2010: The "Recyclable Regatta" took the next step in its build up today with the PCYC school holiday crew launching their recycled raft at the Airlie Beach Lagoon.
The prototype looked to need some further inspiration to aid rigidity, but undetered the kids loaded up and the vessel did float.
On ha [more...]
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Local foods feature across festival
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25 Sep 2010: The Whitsunday Reef Festival celebrates its tenth year in 2010 and the value it adds to town can't be measured. Boosting the local economy, extra visitors to town for the weekend to make the most of a huge array of (mostly free) events.
Another asset to the festival and excellent reason to atten [more...]
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Recyclable Regatta raises awareness
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22 Sep 2010: This year's Whitsunday Reef Festival features an event to raise awareness of an important reef protection issue. Every year increasing signs are evident on the once pristine shores of the Whitsunday Islands and Whitehaven Beach as plastic rubbish invades.
Greater care is needed with the use and d [more...]
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North Queensland Institute of Training helps out Reef Festival volunteers
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21 Sep 2010: New local business North Queensland Institute of Training has come on board as a Big4 Adventure Whitsunday Reef Festival partner, with some very special assistance to the committee of volunteers who organise the festival.
Very soon all of our volunteers will be trained and awarded certificates in t [more...]
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The search is on for a local DJ
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17 Sep 2010: Whitsundays local DJs are being offered the chance of live radio air time, as the Big4 Adventure Whitsunday Reef Festival committee announced this week they were searching for someone to set the soundtrack to the Porters Whitsunday Reef Fire fireworks.
Festival volunteer Danielle Seymour said the f [more...]
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Get creative!
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15 Sep 2010: Plastic bottles, old magazines, coat hangers, just about anything could become a school holidays activity next week!
The Rotary Club of Airlie Beach Wearable Art parade is on again as part of the Big4 Adventure Whitsunday Reef Festival, and organiser Pam Pole is challenging parents and kids to get [more...]
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Inaugural writing competition announced
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13 Sep 2010: Budding young writers will have a chance to showcase their talents in the inaugural Graphic House Writers Competition as part of this year’s Big4 Adventure Whitsunday Reef Festival.
Event coordinator Amie McKay said the event was created to engage local students in a creative way as part of the fes [more...]
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Airlie Beach businesses challenged to Dress Up The Main Street
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12 Sep 2010: The Big4 Adventure Whitsunday Reef Festival challenges Airlie Beach businesses to the Main Street Dress Up competition.
Show your community spirit and celebrate the Great Barrier Reef as part of the 2010 Big4 Adventure Whitsunday Reef Festival!
You could win a $300 voucher to spend at Caper [more...]
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Fashion TV for Frocktail event
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09 Sep 2010: THE Big4 Adventure Whitsunday Reef Festival's signature fashion event, Frocktails, just got even more glamorous, with confirmation this week that Pay TV's Fashion TV would be covering the event. [more...]
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Party Time! Get ready for the Big 4 Adventure Reef Fest Street Parade
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31 Aug 2010: Party Time! will be the theme of this year's Reef Festival Street Parade.
Celebrating the festival's 10th year, the parade is sure to be a crowd favourite yet again, and the participants will be having fun partying as they go.
Parade coordinator Danielle Seymour urges businesses to start plannin [more...]
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Australia's Got Talent comes to Airlie Beach with The Twine and Swoon to play at this years fest!
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05 Aug 2010: Find out about the great live music for this years Big 4 Whitsunday Reef Festival.
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Team Kerr on board for the Big 4 Adventure Whitsunday Reef Festival
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02 Aug 2010: Team Kerr on board for the Big 4 Adventure Whitsunday Reef Festival [more...]
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Whitsunday Reef Festival Wrap
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26 Oct 2009: With the dust now settled in 2009's Whitsunday Reef Festival the time has come to reflect on the success. Over 4 days of the festival, our little town came alive with a complete range of festival activities. From Thursday night's Comedy Gala through the Family Fun Day, smiles were collected by the t [more...]
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Reef Festival Street Parade more popular than ever
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21 Oct 2009: The main street, only 4 bus lengths long and magnificently bitumened was the scene of the Rotary Club of Airlie Beach Street Parade during the BIG4 Adventure Whitsunday Reef Festival.
Featuring scooters, pedestrians and golf carts, there was barely a truck to be seen..... Just like any other day. [more...]
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Free of the Phonies play Reef Festival
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20 Oct 2009: With the dust settling on BIG4 Adventure Whitsunday Reef Festival, the great feedback has been rolling in.
The finale of four days of action packed entertainment and fun was the local youth band "Free of the Phonies" playing a selection of mostly originals to die-hard festival goers.
The favo [more...]
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Wearable Art fun in the sun
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17 Oct 2009: Fun in the sun extends to tropical wearable art. The Whitsundays region has a strong culture of creativity and well displayed through the annual "Wearable Art" competition. Sponsored by the Rotary Club of Airlie Beach and beautifully organised by the Reef Festival's Pamela Pole, the 2009 Wearable Ar [more...]
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Tonight's going to be a good night!!
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17 Oct 2009: Now in its 3rd year of success, Frocktails @ Deja vu, Water's Edge Resort broke records and moved the event to premier position as the Whitsunday's "be seen" event.
With fashions from Beachworx, The Strand, Paya, Colour Me Crazy and Bedroom Boutique, show attendees had a delicious meal of fashion [more...]
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Bang Bang goes the fireworks!
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15 Oct 2009: Friday night's fireworks spectacular is bought to you by Airlie Beach Day & Night Chemist. The fireworks display will be best seen from the foreshore and Airlie Beach proper. Be sure to come early and stay late to make the most of a great night out.
Featuring on the stage before the fireworks, is [more...]
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Free of the Phonies excited about playing this coming Sunday
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14 Oct 2009: This Sunday's "Club Crocodile Family Fun Day" will feature a range of activities set to the sounds of local musicians. "Free of the Phonies" are in the afternoon line up and keen to play a range of music including popular covers and a selection of band originals.
Recently caught surveying the Air [more...]
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Reef Festival volunteers attend Lions community markets
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10 Oct 2009: BIG4 Adventure Whitsunday Reef Festival is upon us with the volunteers out at Lions community markets. Margie Murphy supported by husband and a troop of children were making a point of informing the locals about the events this coming weekend.
Packed full of fun for all the family the festival h [more...]
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Frocktails tickets now available online!
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07 Oct 2009: With BIG4 Adventure Whitsunday Reef Festival just days away, tickets are nearly sold out the signature fashion event in the Whitsundays, Frocktails @ Deja vu.
Limited tickets remain for this event so you need to act now! Normal admission tickets are still available from the venue and from the MOE [more...]
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BIG4 Adventure Whitsunday Reef Festival 2009
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26 Sep 2009: John Nayler speaks with Steve McDonald about the BIG4 Adventure Whitsunday Reef Festival 2009 while at Deja Vu restaurant, Water's Edge Resort, Airlie Beach.
These is heaps of information available about this great event in the middle of October, but rather than list it here, suggest you go to th [more...]
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Tempo Lifestyles Frocktails
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15 Nov 2008: Celebrating the peak of Whitsunday Reef Festival 2008 and fine fashion was Tempo Lifestyles Frocktails. Held around the pool at Deja Vu restuarant, Water's Edge Resort the sun set on 150 + of Airlie Beach's best dressed sipping champagne and enjoyed the fine food, fireworks and fine fashion.
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Helibiz Helicopter Tours
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15 Nov 2008: A late but welcome addition to the Reef Festival program and the Reef Fire Beach BBQ was Helicopter joy flights. Leaving from the edge of the Airlie Beach and Airlie Creek, the 10 minute joy flights took a lucky few across the new Port of Airlie Development, across to Mandalay Point, then to Cannonv [more...]
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Whitsunday Wearable Art shines again
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15 Nov 2008: The youth of the Whitsundays once again showed there designing prowess with the Rotary Club sponsored Wearable Art competition. A dazzling display of creativity was on display during the Whitsunday Transit Street Parade and later at the presentations at the Airlie Beach foreshore during the Reef Fir [more...]
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Whitsunday Transit Street Parade of colour
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15 Nov 2008: Whitsunday Transit where the sponsors of this year's Street Parade, which showcased a mass of colour. With floats from Goldings, Ngaro people, Save Our foreshore, Whitsunday scouts, the schools, wearable art, Beachworx, Mumma's Africa's and many more the show appeared to never end.
ChannelWhitsu [more...]
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Whitsunday Reef Festival Sand Sculpting
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15 Nov 2008: 22 teams of enthusiatics locals got down in the sand on the Saturday morning of Whitsunday Reef Festival. Judged by Nitro and Curio from the Shak, a great morning on the beach was had by all all.
Liz Stewart from Tourism Whitsundays was the Reef Festival committee member that organised this great [more...]
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Rockin the Reef, rocks the reef
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14 Nov 2008: Presented by Airlie Beach Music, this year's Rockin the Reef was THE live music event for the Whitsundays in 2008. Headlined by Evermore with the David Flower Band, and DJ LA Walker, the very foundations of the reef were shaken as the hot sounds projected out over Pioneer Bay.
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Gosh, that's funny - Coral Sea Comedy Gala
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13 Nov 2008: The sounds of laughter eminating from the Coral Sea Resort tonight we not the result of a tickling competition, or gas leak, but the humour from three very talented individuals.
While the packed house enjoyed fine food, drinks from the bar, and the Cold Rock ice cream desert, comic entertainers, [more...]
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Conway National Park - Guided Walk
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13 Nov 2008: We speak with Nah Judd from Queensland Parks and Wildlife after doing the circuit track at the edge of Shute Harbour. [more...]
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Reef Festival 2007 Street Parade
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05 Nov 2007: With the sun still shining on Reef Festival 2007, the final day activities included the street parade and beach BBQ. The street parade was a bumper display of smiling faces, brightly decorated cars, trucks and floats, where even the "Save Our ____" gang happily participated in a procession containin [more...]
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Capoeira Airlie Beach Whitsundays 2007
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03 Nov 2007: Capoeira was on show at Reef Festival. With its originals in South America, the combination of dance, martial art and fitness is infectious. [more...]
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Reef Festival 2007 Frocktails
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02 Nov 2007: One of the gala events of Reef Festival was Frocktails, held at Deja Vu at the Water's Edge Resort. Guests were wow'd with fashions from The Strand and Gear as the sun set over another gorgeous Whitsunday day.
Christina reports on a lovely night of wonder. [more...]
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Reef Festival 2007 Comedy Gala
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01 Nov 2007: Coral Sea Resort was the venue for the Comedy Gala. Southern acts including Dave Jory and Eric Hutton entertained the party goers pool side under another brilliant Whitsunday evening sky.
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Reef Festival 2007 Jazz at the Foreshore
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28 Oct 2007: As part of the diverse range of entertainment at Reef Festival 2007, the Airlie Beach foreshore was the venue for jazz entertainment. Another wonderful way to spend time at Airlie Beach, Whitsundays. [more...]
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Reef Festival 2007 Beach Volley
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28 Oct 2007: As one of the fun activities of Reef Festival 2007, Bayley from Curious Concepts organised a beach volleyball comp at Magnums. [more...]
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Reef Festival 2007 Airlie Beach Hotel Dinner Party
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27 Oct 2007: Dinner has never looked so good! With the combination of "wearable art" fashion from the youth of the Whitsundays and the fine cuisine from Airlie Beach Hotel and Fish D'Vine, Whitsundays was wow'd under a tropical full moon with the sights, tastes and smells that make our place so special.
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Reef Festival 2007 Sand Sculpting
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27 Oct 2007: Airlie Beach was this morning the scene of the CPQ Real Estate sand sculpting competition. Kids of all ages got busy with spades, shovels and buckets to create a range of interesting creatures including whales, serpents, dolphins, and crocodiles. [more...]
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Reef Festival 2007 Fireworks
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26 Oct 2007: Start the party with a bang was the instruction... and Reef Festival 2007 certainly did that. The small community that is the Whitsundays turned out in droves to line the beach and foreshore to witness a magical fireworks display to kick of Reef Festival 2007.
The carnival atmostphere continued o [more...]
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Whitsunday Beef, errr, Reef Festival 2007 - Program of events
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21 Oct 2007: We send John out to get the low down on the Whitsunday Reef Festival 2007, but he must have heard us wrong. Luckily, Christina steps in to sort out the confusion and see to it that the program is properly announced.
Watch and listen as we walk you through the program complete list of events so y [more...]
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