In the late 1970’s and early 1980’s a Catamaran called ‘La Ma Tai’ operated half day sails off the beach in Airlie. (This was long before we had Marinas in the Whitsunday’s). Wendy Fasso (nee Davis) the wife of the Skipper, prepared the morning and afternoon teas. From this small beginning grew ‘The Airlie Birds’.

In 1983 Wendy’s parents, Mitzi and Alistair Davis ran The Airlie Birds and began provisioning the small but growing Bare Boat Fleet, first from the Kitchen and Garden Shed of their home in Cannonvale and then from an old house they purchased in Beach Rd on Cannonvale Beach. The business grew quickly with their attention for detail and their policy of ‘no tolerance’ of errors. They were soon joined in the Business by Son, Brendan and Daughter in law, Caroline.

In 1991 the Davis family sold half their growing business to an investor, while they continued to manage the business. By 1997, Brendan was now the Managing Director and the business had out grown the old house on Cannonvale Beach, so the move was made into a Warehouse in Blue Bay Estate, fitted out with commercial Kitchen and large cold-rooms.

Following the retirement of Alistair Davis in 1998, the Davis family finally sold their remaining share in The Airlie Birds, with Brendan staying on as General Manager until December 1999. His replacement was John Askew who had been with The Airlie Birds since 1989 and is still General Manager to this date.

In July 2000 The Airlie Birds became a Proprietary Limited Company and the name was changed to Whitsunday Provisioning Pty. Ltd.

In 2001 we introduced our first Website with on-line ordering.

By the end of 2006 we had again out grown our premises, so the Warehouse next door was purchased and the floor space doubled.

Whitsunday Provisioning is the only specialist Bareboat Providore in the Whitsunday’s.