whitehaven Archives - Photo Tips, Creative Photography + Travel Guides - The Wandering Lens Photo Tips and Travel Guides for Photographers - Photography Locations + Photogenic Experiences Fri, 27 May 2022 06:40:22 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.thewanderinglens.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/cropped-olympus-housing-32x32.jpg whitehaven Archives - Photo Tips, Creative Photography + Travel Guides - The Wandering Lens 32 32 Whitehaven Beach – Photographing Australia’s Natural Wonder https://www.thewanderinglens.com/whitehaven-beach-queensland-australia/ https://www.thewanderinglens.com/whitehaven-beach-queensland-australia/#comments Sun, 11 Dec 2016 23:00:04 +0000 http://www.thewanderinglens.com/?p=5771 Whitehaven Beach = The Most Photogenic Beach in Australia From the air Whitehaven Beach is like an abstract painting. It’s sandy swirls, teal water and carved channels twist and turn like Picasso’s paint brush. Okay so Picasso is one of the few artists I actually remember from art class but Whitehaven is definitely worthy of gallery walls, I know that much. Located on Whitsunday Island off the Queensland coast in Australia, Whitehaven dazzles with it’s beachy goodness. Regularly named on the world’s best beach lists, it’s not hard to see why this stretch of sand is one of the most visited in all the land. What makes Whitehaven so special is the delicate silica sand which at approximately 98% is among the purest in the world. The beach also covers 7km which means a whole lot of pure white sandy beach to stroll along. Access to Whitehaven Beach is only possible by boat, seaplane or helicopter meaning if you arrive early, you may just have it all to yourself! During the day tourist boats begin to arrive from nearby Airlie Beach and the resort islands but there’s always enough beach for everyone. In the northern section you’ll find Hill Inlet,...

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]]> https://www.thewanderinglens.com/whitehaven-beach-queensland-australia/feed/ 3 Jump on board the Whitehaven Express! https://www.thewanderinglens.com/jump-on-board-the-whitehaven-express/ https://www.thewanderinglens.com/jump-on-board-the-whitehaven-express/#comments Wed, 03 Sep 2014 10:59:03 +0000 http://www.thewanderinglens.com/?p=1173 Checking the weather forecast like some kind of obsessed meteorologist, the day I’d chosen for a boat trip to the dreamy Whitehaven Beach was perfect. Light winds, no swell, not a cloud in the sky and a warm 26 degrees. Beach bliss ahoy! Whitehaven Beach and I have seen each other for photographs a number of times over the past five years. In rain storms, cyclones, gale force winds and sunny days, I’ve stood on its white silica sandy shores or flown over from above and regardless of the weather it’s always looking fabulously photogenic. Tuesday was luckily one of those sunny days and jumping on board my boat at Abell Point Marina in Airlie Beach, I knew it was going to be fun when I saw the pirate like crew ready to set sail. Whitehaven is known for the naturally formed shifting sand swirls of Hill Inlet on Whitsunday Island and was discovered by Captain James Cook in early June 1770. I bet if Captain Cook had a camera he would have been snapping away like visitors today who are in awe of its overwhelming beauty and aquatic rainbow of sea and sand. As Whitehaven is all about the...

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