Blogs from Mission Beach, Queensland, Australia, Oceania - page 6

Happy Birthday Dad. Having a great time on our road trip. I will update the blog when I get to Alice Springs. ps Thank you for the money mum and dad. I promised I would do something sensible with it. xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx... read more

We arrived in Mission Beach and booked into The Sanctuary Retreat. A man in a 4 wheel drive came to pick us up fromt he carpack for the drive up through the rainforest to the hotel. Our room was amazing - a green hut suspended in the rainforest which you could almost touch from bed. Having settled in we headed down to our own bit of beach - along a footpath through the trees (very beautiful although the return walk was hard work in the heat). A beautiful sunset made it all worthwhile plus a brilliant dinner on the restaurant balcony overlooking the moonlit sea. The next morning saw us come face to face with a juvenile cassowary - Australia's second biggest bird (a rainforest version of the emu). It was really cool to see one ... read more

It’s quite weird sitting typing this as I have got so behind, we are nearly half way through our time in south island, I’m about a month behind with this as we have been moving around so much and it’s too cold to have the window open for the power lead for the computer - what a hard life I hear you say!! Anyway, back to Australia…….. We left Airlie by about 8.30 and after a quick stop at a little town to raid the delicatessen we made our way to the much acclaimed Mission Beach. Loads of people had said how expensive it was so when we turned up and found a cute little village with a wicked campsite right on the beach we were well chuffed. To celebrate we went to the local and ... read more

Another month has passed, and we're still living in the rainforest. Every 'one more week' seems to turn into "Let's just wait another week" and thus we've delayed our departure more times than I can count. The 50 acres of UNESCO World Heritage rainforest, gorgeous secluded beaches and warm ocean water, are really make leaving difficult. We finally have a leaving date now though, and we'll be heading onwards next week. It's been an incredible few months, full of unique wildlife, great weather, and wonderful people. We've had some amazing experiences here that we will definitely not forget, and it will be hard to leave. We've become close to everyone here, and even the cassowaries feel like members of the family. As for cassowary news, a fair amount has happened in the past month. Since we ... read more

Day 91 - Mission Beach South When you wake up in a caravan in Australia, the first thing you tend to do is sneak a peak behind the curtains to see what sort of day you are waking up to. That was not necessary this morning because the tinkle, tinkle, tinkle, plop of rain on the roof made it blindingly obvious what was happening outside! Huuummmmph! Never mind. We intended to visit the Mission Beach Monster Market today so prepared to get wet and with that expectation there’s really no point in drying your hair after a shower so we don’t! There’s a post box at reception so about 20 postcards got sent off this morning! Some of them are more timely than others I’m afraid, sorry about that!! Nancy on reception also booked us on ... read more