Hamilton Island's warm marine welcome to Oprah and entourage

3:47 AM Sat 11 Dec 2010 GMT

'View of the approach by air to Hamilton Island - what?s not to love!?' . ? Click Here to view large photo

Hamilton Island, long the dream destination for boaties and the water-obsessed, is still recovering from the attention and adulation from the visiting media magnate, Oprah Winfrey and 93 of her 300 viewers who travelled with her to Australia. The first destination on the whirlwind tour, which it is hoped will spur on the US and international tourists to our shores, Hamilton Island put its pitch to Oprah?s people, the Harpo Production company, and were thrilled when they were scheduled first. 'It was pure luck,' says Phillipa Harrison, General Manager of Sales at Hamilton Island. 'We have our own airport on ...

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by Jeni Bone