Mission Beach and Townsville
March 1st 2010 After 2/3 hours on the bus, we arrived at Mission Beach in boiling hot sunshine. It had rained on and off while we had been in Cairns (as it is the tropical wet season at the moment in the north of australia) but as nice as it was to be dry, the humidity was just as intense as Asia, with it being so close to the equator still.
Our hostel was about 30 metres from the beach and luckily had air-co
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