Wedding Of The Week

Nicole Cassidy and Nicholas McGrath Sunlovers Terrace, Daydream Island Resort.

Island Life Adds Up For Planner

This Whitsundays holiday never ends, writes Valerie Khoo.

In The Herald: 1963

* A ROYAL Australian Navy whaler, a sailing ship used for training, was found dismasted and awash north-east of Hayman Island off the Queensland coast, with the bodies of two sailors on board and three sailors missing. Whalers were regarded as unsinkable but speculation had it that this one had been overturned in rough seas and the sailors had been caught in the rigging.

Divers Sell Story For $1.1m As The Blame Game Begins

A PASSENGER on the dive boat from which a couple went missing for 19 hours off the Queensland coast has hit out at reports that the dive company was to blame for the potentially disastrous incident. Meantime the couple has reportedly been paid $A1.1 million by the Sunday Mirror for their story. American Alison Dalton and Briton Dick Neely clung to each other in darkness and high seas in shark-infested waters near Hayman Island, after they drifted away from the dive boat Pacific Star on Friday afternoon.

No Man Can Resist An Island

Christina Pfeiffer grabs her flippers, jumps in a seaplane and heads for her top three single-resort islands.

A Slice Of Heaven On Hayman Island

Couples will not want to leave, writes Jane E. Fraser. Hayman Island

Leaders To Pick Each Other's Brains At Hayman Island

The most high-powered gathering of business, government and community leaders to be held this year begins tonight amid tight security at Hayman Island.

Murdoch's Hayman Island Follies Exaggerate The Power Of His Empire

LAST time at Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation management conference it was a male stripper who attracted all the attention; this time at Hayman Island it is Britain's prime minister-in-waiting, Tony Blair. But both are sideshows to the real business of the conference, which is about reinforcing

Bringing Fashion To Hayman

IT'S A long way from the windswept streets of Melbourne to the sunny, sandy beaches of Hayman Island in far north Queensland. In fashion terms, the chasm is even further. Yet Mrs Rosa Maria Cassara-Ahmet, who owns Hayman's small, selective group of shops, sees little difference between shopping

Make Hayman While The Sun Shines

WHEN the wraps were taken off Hayman Island's five-star facelift in April 1987, the similarities between the demolished original resort and the brand-new model ended with the fact they had both been built on the same island. The original Hayman was all family fun, casual and comfy accommod