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An Autumn sail in paradise on the Gold Coast water ways with Getaway Sailing can range from Champagne sailing on a private 2 hour Sunset cruise or 3 hour Sunset Cruise through to an all day Private South Stradebroke Island Discovery tour on the smooth waters of the Gold Coast’s Broadwater.

Gold Coast Sunsets On the Broadwater

Enjoy this surreal time of the day with your friends and family or take a Private Romantic Cruise for you and your partner.

We also cater for the ocean sailor with the whale watching season

For the people who use a Dslr Camera with a flash and don’t understand Flash Sync speed, you may like this article which explains it 101 style!! The easy way  😎

This is the link to the full thread  on photo.net

And here is the best of the thread from photo.net

Mark Parker , Jun 14, 2007; 10:50 p.m.

I wrote this for another forum a few weeks ago.

To understand flash sync you have to understand how the curtain on a SLR works.

I’ll take a stab at explaining how the curtain works on a

$320 per persn

 A You Tube link to show case the day.     Valentine’s Day Romantic Spa and Sailing

Spoil your Valentine’s this year with a package which is available for only one couple per day. Spend the day together relaxing in your private day spa at Getaway Day Spa. At the Day Spa you are treated to 90 minutes of water therapy with private use of our Steam room, Therapeutic spa and Mineral bath using salts from the dead sea. After your water time we take you to

On a recent outing both Getaway Sailing on the Gold Coast and Getaway Day Spa had the privilege to spend a day with the Great South East team.

The morning started in the avocado orchid with Sophie Formica presenting. A stroll through the orchid found Sophie and her friend Lisa entering Getaway Day Spa. Here the girls were treated to a relaxing time in the “wet room” with our steam room, hydrotherapy spa and mineral bath. Once the girls finished with the warmth of the spa room they were pampered with

A Gift voucher allows your friends and family or maybe your work mates to choose when it is best for them to spend some time on the water Sailing on the Gold Coast’s  Broadwater with Getaway Sailing on the Gold Coast. All bookings are private so it will only ever be your group of guests on board the yacht.

A Sailing  Gift Voucher for Christmas can be used for any of our charters. You can buy to a dollar value or buy the minimum charter

Christmas is coming so book now for your PRIVATE South Stradebroke Island yacht charter

        Spend some time with your friends, family or work mates on board our French yacht. A 2 hour sailing cruise takes us up to the northern end of South Stradebroke Island where we can drop anchor and enjoy the calm waters and deserted beaches of the National park.

It’s a wonderful way to share the festive season, with a skipper on board you can sit back and relax or if you would like to take

Over the September school holidays Lawson and Dylan came out on to the ocean with me to do a spot of fishing. What happen was amazing, on the way to spot X we were treated to a new born calf feeding from it’s mother.

At first from a distance it was hard to workout what we were looking at.The adult Humpback Whale was perfectly still with her tail out of the water and her head pointing the the center of the earth. She was lying vertically and very still for over

“After many months of really hard work I took my team of 5 for a sailing trip with Darryl. None of the guys had sailed before and Darryl patiently taught us the basics.

Initial reluctance was soon replaced with wide grins as everyone had a go and warmed to the occasion.

Thank you to Darryl for an excellent day out and an opportunity for a bunch of office dwellers to do something completely different.

Highly recommended, the WGE  Crew.”

Sunday the 26th of August was another sailing cruise to remember with 2 Humpback whales spending half the day with us. They played at the surface for many hours showing off as best they could and yes they did get our full attention. The two whales came over to us at around 10:30 am and follow us for a short while staying behind the vessel and approaching as close as 2 meters from the stern. They play and frolicked about the yacht swimming under, in front and doing circles around

Last Tuesday saw us enjoying Adam’s birthday with his family and a special star roll played by Gazzer the Humpback whale. This lone whale decided to befriend us for an hour or more, putting on an incredible show of water acrobatics. The massive creature showed the finest in dexterity and spacial awareness passing by us and touching the vessel with the greatest of care. Channel 7 News have shown him on the 6 o’clock time slot and here is a link to watch.