Mission Beach
Hello from Mission Beach! We're here using the Internet for free as we booked a Whitsundy sailing trip with the information centre yesterday but we'll get to those details in a moment.
We left off leaving Cairns on the Oz Experience a couple of days ago. Well, after we found where to catch the bus (a little confusing) we loaded our backpacks on and away we went. Our first stop of the day was at Barron Falls and Kuranda (I know AGAIN! haha). That's okay we had another aussie pie while everyone else toured around :) We then drove for a bit and the next stop was a giant fig tree. We all gathered around the fig tree snapping photos. Seriously, though for a tree it was pretty cool. Next we went to Millaa Millaa falls in the Atherton Tablelands. This waterfall was beautiful and not made from a hydro electric dam like Barron was. Back on the bus we got, grabbed some lunch (another aussie pie!) and headed to a crocodile farm at Inisfail. The farm had several fresh and salt water crocs that were all very hungry. We followed the guide around as he fed them whole chickens. They didn't even chew them! Here we also saw a few kangaroos again, a cassowary and several aussie birds. We then went back to the main reception area where the guides brought out snakes and a baby crocodile (with it's mouth taped shut thank goodness!) for us to hold and take photos with. There was this one snake that was in a glass cage and the one guide was like "if anyone lets this snake bite you, I will give you a free coke from the fridge." We all thought he was joking but he wasn't. So, this one guy in our group volunteered and sure enough he stuck his hand in and the snake bit him and left three small puncture wounds and he got his free coke. Crazy aussies!!! (the snake wasn't poisnous or anything). It was also at this time we learned on the radio that the famous aussie crocodile hunter, Steve Irwin, had passed away earlier in the day while snorkelling in the reef up at Port Douglas in a totally bizarre and freak accident. We didn't think it was real at the time but everyone here was totally devestated with the news. (we thought it was kind of ironic that we learned about while at a croc farm). Anyways, we left the croc farm and made our way to Mission Beach where we had a huge steak/fish bbq at the hostel.
The next couple of days were not as action packed I guess you could say as we lounged around on the beach. We did some walking (actually, we did a lot of walking - we walked the entire beach over 2 days!). We also did a lot of lounging, reading, swimming, more lounging and enjoyed being covered day and night in sand!
Back to the trip we have booked. Our next big adventure is a sailing trip around the Whitsunday Islands leaving on Monday for 3 days/2 nights of "good times". We are sailing on the tall ship called the "Alexander Stewart". We have a private double cabin booked and look forward to seeing the islands, eating the good food and more lounging.
In the meantime, we're off on the bus again tomorrow spending tomorrow night in Magnetic Island (just outside of Townsville) and then off to Airlie Beach the following day where the sailing trip will commence from on Monday. We'll spend a couple days in Airlie Beach touring the town, going to the beach, laundry and other fun stuff :)
Miss everyone! We will write again soon.
We left off leaving Cairns on the Oz Experience a couple of days ago. Well, after we found where to catch the bus (a little confusing) we loaded our backpacks on and away we went. Our first stop of the day was at Barron Falls and Kuranda (I know AGAIN! haha). That's okay we had another aussie pie while everyone else toured around :) We then drove for a bit and the next stop was a giant fig tree. We all gathered around the fig tree snapping photos. Seriously, though for a tree it was pretty cool. Next we went to Millaa Millaa falls in the Atherton Tablelands. This waterfall was beautiful and not made from a hydro electric dam like Barron was. Back on the bus we got, grabbed some lunch (another aussie pie!) and headed to a crocodile farm at Inisfail. The farm had several fresh and salt water crocs that were all very hungry. We followed the guide around as he fed them whole chickens. They didn't even chew them! Here we also saw a few kangaroos again, a cassowary and several aussie birds. We then went back to the main reception area where the guides brought out snakes and a baby crocodile (with it's mouth taped shut thank goodness!) for us to hold and take photos with. There was this one snake that was in a glass cage and the one guide was like "if anyone lets this snake bite you, I will give you a free coke from the fridge." We all thought he was joking but he wasn't. So, this one guy in our group volunteered and sure enough he stuck his hand in and the snake bit him and left three small puncture wounds and he got his free coke. Crazy aussies!!! (the snake wasn't poisnous or anything). It was also at this time we learned on the radio that the famous aussie crocodile hunter, Steve Irwin, had passed away earlier in the day while snorkelling in the reef up at Port Douglas in a totally bizarre and freak accident. We didn't think it was real at the time but everyone here was totally devestated with the news. (we thought it was kind of ironic that we learned about while at a croc farm). Anyways, we left the croc farm and made our way to Mission Beach where we had a huge steak/fish bbq at the hostel.
The next couple of days were not as action packed I guess you could say as we lounged around on the beach. We did some walking (actually, we did a lot of walking - we walked the entire beach over 2 days!). We also did a lot of lounging, reading, swimming, more lounging and enjoyed being covered day and night in sand!
Back to the trip we have booked. Our next big adventure is a sailing trip around the Whitsunday Islands leaving on Monday for 3 days/2 nights of "good times". We are sailing on the tall ship called the "Alexander Stewart". We have a private double cabin booked and look forward to seeing the islands, eating the good food and more lounging.
In the meantime, we're off on the bus again tomorrow spending tomorrow night in Magnetic Island (just outside of Townsville) and then off to Airlie Beach the following day where the sailing trip will commence from on Monday. We'll spend a couple days in Airlie Beach touring the town, going to the beach, laundry and other fun stuff :)
Miss everyone! We will write again soon.
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