Free Stuff to do around the Whitsundays

  • Evening entertainment in Airlie Beach including trivia and pool comps, and there's live music on every night of the week.
  • Cedar Creek Falls is spectacular in the tropical green season.
  • Challenge yourself on the 30km Whitsunday Great Walk, on foot, or on your mountain bike.
  • The Airlie Beach Lagoon provides a safe, stinger-free environment for the children to play in the shallows.
  • Catch a Barra at the Peter Faust Dam.
  • The Whitsunday Sailing Club conducts Twilight yacht racing every Wednesday between 3 to 7pm. You can be part of the Whitsundays sailing experience, as yachts are often short of crew, even novices. Ring in advance for the club to match you with a boat.
  • Boathaven Beach, situated on the peninsula in Airlie Beach known as The Beacons, is the perfect spot for a picnic.
  • Join the local 'Ride Whitsundays' riders at 8am on a Saturday morning for a social ride. Meeting at the Airlie Lagoon Broadwater Avenue car park, you can bring any bike, you don't have to wear lycra and you don't need to be fast. Beginners are welcome.
  • Visit Bowen and let the kids splash around in the water park at the Front Beach, follow the historic mural trail through the town and visit the locations where 'Australia' the movie was filmed in 2008.
  • The Airlie Beach Markets are situated on the Airlie foreshore each Saturday, there are markets in Bowen every Sunday, and the Whitsunday Farmers markets happen on the 1st and 3rd Sunday of the month in Proserpine.
  • Enjoy an Aussie BBQ in one of the many undercover shelters along the Airlie Beach and Cannonvale foreshore.
  • Walk the Bicentennial Walkway and enjoy the views from Cannonvale Beach to Airlie Beach.