Blogs from Mission Beach, Queensland, Australia, Oceania - page 16

We purchased a hop on hop off bus pass in Cairns that would take us down the East Coast back to Sydney. We jumped on the bus early last Saturday morning and headed 'down the Highway' to Mission Beach. We were picked up by our hostel at the bus stop and spent the next few days relaxing in Mission Beach at Scotty's Beach House, the best hostel we've been to so far. It was so relaxing, the staff were friendly and they even carried my bag to my room for me. There was an amazing pool with a log across the middle that you can battle your opponent with inflatable noodles, so i spent the next fews days messing around in the pool knocking Gaz off the log and playing volleyball. Cassawarries are about 6ft tall ... read more

Hey guys, We thought a few of you might be getting a bit fed up through the cold dreary winter so we have devised a few balances for you to try and master!!!! Good luck you can do it!!!! Also included a few pics of Barbara the Cassawary. They are a bit like emus really. There is only 2 who frequent our area as they are very territorial (look at my extensive knowledge of cassawaries!) . There was a cyclone here last year called Cyclone Larry which killed about 10 of them so now part of our job at the mo is to leave food at their feeding station so that they survive. We have to leave it every few days and leave differing amounts so they don't become to reliant on it. The only thing ... read more

We thought you'd like to meet our new friends! These are the guys we share our hut with most of the time! Also a few pics of our picnic at nyleta yest. Feel free to vote for your favourite bug, our odds are on Simon.... read more

Hey guys, Just to update you on our adventures!!! We are now staying in the rainforest @ Mission Beach. For all you sad computer geeks you can actually do a virtual tour of where we are staying at this web address (or those of you who are at a loose end at work and want to look busy!!!) www.sanctuaryretreat.com.au . We are working for our accom and food again. We're living in these funky mesh huts we have a 360 degree view of the rainforest!!! Yest we spent the day working on a track through the rainforest which nearly killed us in the heat!! Rich is doing alsorts of oddjobs and becoming a real jungle boy, I often see him galivanting around barefoot with his machete in hand clearing the paths. Only today he removed a ... read more

Hi, I spent a couple days in the "Treehouse" a backpackers hostel neat Mission Beach. Right on the first day I met Jochen from Alt Wallmoden (Germany). We went on hiking directly. I can tell you hiking in Australia is much more exhausting than in Europe - its hotter, more humide and ... more insects. But its very interesting to see the local Flora and Fauna. So what can you do in Mission Beach... For sure you cant go swimming its Stinger Season (Quallen) That means you either swim behind a stinger net or wear a sexy stinger suite. Its a full body nylon suite... very tight. But you can go diving... sky diving. Vesna (Melbourne) did it here - so I thought give it a try. Skydiving isnt such an Adrenalin rush as exspected - ... read more