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Mission Beach Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Mission Beach, Australia
Joxer goes to stutgart!
... and we have the air-con blasting as Ocean colour scene play in the background! We pass through Inisfail, and head towards mission beach and set up camp on a small secluded beach called Bingil bay, for just 10dollars.The only irritating thing is that ...
Exploring Mission Beach
... to the hostel with some food bits from Woolies, we decide to take a walk from Wongaling where our hostel was along to the actual Mission Beach, this was a 5km hike each way in the sun, this was way too hot but luckily we had taken some drinks with us. We ...
Hanging out in Mission Beach
... in all it's glory. I was so nice to finally hang out in the sun for the first time in almost 3 weeks. I stayed down in Mission Beach all day and caught up with a few of the ladies from work who were having a farewell dinner at the local thai restaurant ...
Wasserfälle und Kasuaren
... . Wir sehen immer mehr Schmetterlinge aber auch Moskitos und Sandfliegen. Der zweitletzte Campingplatz ist wunderschön in South Mission Beach gelegen. Leider kann man auch an diesem Strand bis Mai nur innerhalb des Quallenschutz-Netzes schwimmen – ...
Cairns
... couldn't get up to Murray Falls because the road was flooded . Think the Cassowaries which are often seen around Mission Beach must have been sheltering in the rainforests because I didn't see one the whole time we were ...
Mission Beach
Our first stop from Cairns was about 2.5 hours on the coach - a one horse town called Mission Beach..we stayed in a hostel which was cracker!! It was like the Summer Bay Caravan Park in Home and Away - the two managers were like Pippa and Tom and they ...
Total Wipe out
Hey, Arrived up to Mission Beach in the evening and it was LASHING rain all the way. En route we couldn't really get over the remaining devastation of the cyclone. Houses and trees all destroyed. Alot of the houses were being rebuilt or had temporary ...
A Mini Adventure
... and we got 2 seats each! My journey consisted of sleeping, waking to eat my yoghurt pot breakfast, sleeping. We arrived at Mission Beach for 10 and conveniently were outside a Travel Bug office so said we'd booked everything through them and left our big ...
Dunk island and bruised bums!
... the main beach and lazed about there for awhile until our water taxi came back to pick us up. Once back on the mainland we walked along Mission Beach for a couple of hours enjoying the last rays of sunlight on our last evening in QLD. ...
2 jours a rien faire a Mission Beach
Comme son nom l'indique, Mission Beach c'est une plage, ou il doit faire 40 degres a l'ombre, et vu la saison, se baigner n'est pas une tres bonne idee. Donc forcement, on a pas pu faire grand chose... On a quand meme essaye la plage pendant 30 ...
Day 36 From Lucinda to Mission Beach
Went from Lucinda to Mission Beach with a stopover for lunch in Tully, Australia's wettest region, of which we had a live experiance the whole night! ...
Hike through a cassowary resort
We stopped at Mission Beach and decided to do a hike through the forest there. Mission Beach is home to some of the few last remaining Cassowaries in Australia, a protected species of large birds. Unfortunatelly we didn't spot ...
Mission Beach
Spent one night in Mission beach. Myself and Fox stayed the night in a place called the sanctuary, in the middle of the rainforest. It took us a gruelling 15 minute walk through the rainforest to get ot the place, up in the hills, totally isolated. We ...
Living with the Hippies....
************************************************************************************** This is writen while I am already in Darwin, Australia. Reports will be very short from here on - if I write something at all. I will update it with pictures from ...
Country life at the Tully Show!
... and choppy than turquoise! After a look around the area and spotting our first cassowary in the wild (amazing!), we realised that even in Mission Beach everything was closed, so we decided to head into Tully and check out the show too! I am so glad we did ...
Mission Beach
We've had a full day today starting with the Kuranda cable car ride, a tour through the Atherton Tablelands & varied stops along the way. It was a fun day. We are now in Cassowary country where we hope to spot one of these fairly rare creatures in ...
Beautiful One Day....
... is a 9km trip around the island, of which we did 3km, making our way through the lush rainforest path to Muggy Muggy Beach for a swim after lunch, sighting a green tree snake along the way. Dunk seems to get a regular shipment of new tourists, ...
Windy Day
... riding it up and down the hills and it only had one gear which made it hard to peddle up any of the hills. I got down to the beach pretty quick, I sat down there for a bit and the wind was so strong, I’d put sun screen on before I went down, and the ...
I don't like watermelons anyway
... to him for a bit, and again to Ann about what I’d been doing since I left on Sunday. I left there then walked along the beach for a bit then walked back up to the farm. Today was such a gorgeous day! The water was so beautiful when I was down at the ...
Where's the goodbye song, Rolf Harris?
... to get from the north of Oz to the very south with unlimited stop-offs in between it's an absolute bargain! We arrived at Mission Beach a couple of hours later at around 3.15pm and after checking in and sorting our bags out we looked to see if we could ...
Jump Off A Plane...Check!
... the night before either.) They say the worst part of any scary activity is the anticipation. Well, with an almost two hour ride to Mission Beach and having the bad luck to be put into the last jump group, it's a wonder the three of us didn't start ...
Last Days in the Whitsudays to Mission Beach
... another amazing, peaceful night. We slept to the sound of running water and a thunder storm... Great Stuff! Now we're in Mission Beach, looking forward to meeting up with Connors family friends... and see what it has to offer! Hope you're all well! ...
Day 37 Mission Beach
What a rainy night and day! Since we had ongoing rain the whole day we decided to visit the next bigger city Innisfail in the morning. Nothing spectacular nothing to report here. In the afternoon we moved from a tent into a cabin since there was no hope ...
Bright sun shiny day
Drove to Mission Beach today - well actually Wongalong Beach but close enough. It's a beautiful stretch of beach and the weather was perfect today. It's opposite Dunk Island for those that know where that is. Basically just settled in, went for a ...
More waiting rooms
Went to Tully today originally planning to see a few waterfalls and gorges around the area. In the end we went to a place called Alligator's Nest (scouts named it) - no crocs - for picnic lunch and Elijah enjoyed a bit of a paddle but was a little cold ...
White Water Rafting :D
... do. BBQ tonight at the Hostel :P. The plan is now staying here till Tuesday morning . So Friday we are hitting the great barrier reef, Sat Ronan is doing a sky dive, Sunday is a day at the beach chilling and Monday we are going sea kayaking and ...
In Search of the Cassowary
... of Roo roadkill (which again upset our animal loving younger son). Our next stop was the holiday destination of Mission Beach. The beach is huge but the accommodation options are limited. This part of our trip was rather spontaneous so we ...
Magnetic Island to Mission Beach
... it was amazing, we went to 14,000ft and freefell for 1 minute, and then were in the air for another 4 minutes before we landed on Mission Beach. We both wanted to go straight back up and do it again! Later that day we looked round the town and then walked ...