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Mission Beach Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Mission Beach, Australia
A 14,000 foot drop into paradise
... were practically parked on the beach!! One of my main aims for the trip was to complete a skydive and with Mission Beach rated the most scenic in Australia, it seemed only natural to do it there. After discussion, Sam and Jesper were also on board ...
Finding Nemo: A trip to the Great Barrier Reef
... hours south of Cairns. It is quite peaceful here and the small beachside community has someone resisted being developed. I will get to Mission Beach in a second but I thought I would pick-up where last I left off. After Kuranda we stayed two nights at ...
Wallabies 'on a Mission' Beach
... a lovely morning and it was a relief that the humidity had reduced significantly. We continued south for another hour and reached Mission Beach. We were initially unable to locate the Boutique Bungalows and Dvid had to admit defeat by calling into the ...
Townsville and Magnetic Island
... the towns were getting smaller and the distances larger as Queensland proved to be a far less populated than the map of Australia first suggests. People had certainly become fewer and farther between and when we almost ran out of petrol and had to ...
The worst day
Today I hear the news that my mother has died while on holiday in France. It is pretty much the worst day ever. From this follows a pretty harrowing trip home via Sydney, Bangkok and ...
Mission Beach
Das Wetter war leider noch nicht viel besser als wir in Mission Beach ankamen. Wir gingen am Strand spazieren und fanden wieder Kokosnuesse. Wir haben wieder genascht bis sich jemand in die Hand schnitt - ich wars zum Glueck nicht... Am naechsten ...
Chilling at Mission Beach
... , giggly 18-24 year olds, that may have been my last conversation of substance. OK, that's harsh. But you get the idea. Mission Beach was chilled and sweltering hot. Even the cows were looking for shade. Did a kayaking trip one morning, which was hard ...
Throwing myself out of a plane...
First day in Mission Beach was pretty quiet - just chilled out at out hostel. We met up with a girl we had made friends with from Cape Tribulation and talked her into sky diving with us the next day... yup, sky diving... Watched Point Break that evening ...
Mission Beach
Monday We were planning to do a skydive here but decided we can't afford to do it. We decided eating was more preferable!! Today we did nothing and just ...
The Waterfall Loop
... , wearing their old ragged plaid shirts and 40 year old fishing hats. Retired life is grand for these old guys! Moved to Mission Beach for the Saturday market along another stretch of palm-tree lined beach that goes on forever! Settled on the beach ...
Mission Possible
Day 105 - Left Airlie heading for Mission beach, was a long journey, not arriving until after 11pm so day was written off. Day 106 - A slightly more exciting day! Eventually got my skydive in (unbelievable experience), walked up the beach, and also took ...
Mission Possible
Day 105 - Left Airlie heading for Mission beach, was a long journey, not arriving until after 11pm so day was written off. Day 106 - A slightly more exciting day! Eventually got my skydive in (unbelievable experience), walked up the beach, and also took ...
Mission beach
We stayed in mission beach for five days altogether. It was a tiny little town but we really liked it. The first day here we went down to the beach to sunbathe. We had a really good time as the beach was gorgeous and its also were the skydivers land so it ...
Easy Livin
... . They're crazy, and nothing excites them besides jumping out of a plane. There were also some white water rafting guides in Mission Beach as well, and when they mentioned going white water rafting, the skydivers yawned, as if that's too boring for ...
Mission Beach
Mission Beach, 20th/21st October 2008: On paper, Mission Beach is a paradise. Halfway between Townsville and Cairns, it is a series of small towns by the beach, surrounded by rainforest and the Wet Tropic World Hertiage Area. Hiding in that ...
Mission Beach - hot and humid but beautiful
... only thing after Yasi we saw. All buildings and houses are going well and it looks like there was never cyclone here. Weather in Mission Beach was very humid and we were sweating badly. I even compared it to Karumba at Arafura Sea. Thus we splashed at ...
Whitsundays
Ok, so we've been too busy travelling and just a little bit lazy! Here's a few pictures of the trip. More on this ...
Happy Canada Day!!
... Ayr this morning, and drove to Townsville, looked around, and decided to keep going north. Now we are in Bingil Bay near Mission Beach. We have a beachfront campsite, hot showers and nice cold beer in the cooler. We will probably spend 2 nights here, and ...
9 Stunden Bus, keine Geschäfte & 1 giftiger Frosch
... an der PriceWaterhouseCooper-Filiale sehen kann - die mir direkt mal unangenehmes Herzklopfen verursacht... Auf dem weiteren Weg Richtung Mission Beach bekomme ich eine erfreuliche Nachricht aus Deutschland, die mir zum ersten Mal so etwas wie Heimweh ...
More chill out
A bit of a boring entry, stopped off at Mission beach for 2 nights in between Townsville and Cairnes, the plan was to sunbath for two days but it rained on the first!! Well it is wet season in Northern Queensland. Did some sunbathing on the ...
Xtremely good weekend, eh?
... nbsp; The opening of the parachute was a relief and also a bit of a wrench but after that it was just a pleasant descent towards Mission Beach. I threw out a few waves to James who was nearly on the deck, where I joined him shortly after a very tidy ...
Seeking Sanctuary
... I thought I was getting used to the backpacker lifestyle I arrive at the Sanctuary. http://www.sanctuaryatmission.com/ I arrived in Mission beach yesterday and everyone else got on one of the shuttles to the various backpackers in town. I, on the ...
Kurrimine Beach
... local park and found an enormous boot standing 7.9 metres high which represents the Tully annual rainfall for 1950 - an Australian record. Mission Beach, named after an aboriginal mission set up in the area in 1914, is a small beachside town and home to ...
Mission Beach, far away in time.....
... surrounded by World Heritage rainforest on one side and the World Heritage listed Great Barrier Reef on the other, a nice little combination. Mission Beach is also home to some of the few cassowaries left in the wild. A large flightless bird, they can ...
OZ Tour Day 12: Mission Beach
Tour: Sydney to Cairns Day 12 - Mission Beach Mission Beach... I don't really have much to tell about this day... There is a beach, which we didn't go to because you can't swim due to the stinger season. Else, there is nothing really. So ...
Mission Accomplished!
... few dozen speed cameras) we had arrived at the airport, a small private strip in the town of Tully about 20k south of Mission Beach. There's a small building which houses the offices and we were ushered in to finalise our bookings and confirm what, if ...
Moving on.
... up with, especially when we nearly ended up tipping te boat over and all falling in. but we managed to keep the boat the right way and we got away with it, we caught the greyhound bus later on that took us about 2 hours and dropped us off at mission ...
Sea Kayaking
There was 7 people that turned up for this sea kayaking day trip and plus the guide that made 8 of us, we paired off and it was 1 kayak per pair, the kayak had foot pedals that controlled the rudder at the back and we had a double paddle each. We paddled ...
OZ Tour Day 11: Airlie Beach to Mission Beach
... Beach After some last sailing in the morning we finished at Airlie Beach. We went straight in the bus and drove up to Mission Beach. On the way we stopped at the Billabong Sanctuary. This is an open air zoo that looks very natural with a ...