e took our first Greyhound Bus ride today from Cairns to Mission Beach. The journey was about 2hrs 30 mins and enabled us to see 'behind the scenes' tropical north Queensland on the way. Its pretty flooded in this part of the world at the moment as it is the rainy season - but as a result everything is really lush and green too. There is so much natural beauty here - in the space of 150km we saw cloud covered mountains, dense tropical rainforests and white sandy beaches lined with palm trees.
We are staying at Wongaling just down the road from Mission Beach (well in australian terms it is! I took us about an hour to walk to Mission Beach). The hostel is fantastic and our balcony overlooks the rainforest. Tonnes of creepy crawlies around, plus geckos and amazing birds and butterflies too.
We off to do the beachy thing tomorrow, and we're going to do some rainforest walks too if its not too humid. The Carrowary is a local bird (as tall as a man) and indigenous to this area, that we have been told to look out for...fingers crossed!
Well we went to Mission Beach on Sunday it was kind of strange. The place is very quiet and there is practically noone about! We walked along the beach and had to cross over Porters creek that runs through the beach into the sea. It was a bit deep but the hostel had told us we had to cross before lunch. When we got to Mission Beach the lady in the tourist information was horrified that we had done this and told us that there was crocodiles and jelly fish that could of killed us in the creek! but we were fine, however we didn't go back that way!
Whilst we were at Mission Beach we did a short walk through some rainforest and saw a massive orange, black and red spider, which Andrew nearly walked straight into! But other than that we didn't see much other than Lizards.
We are leaving Mission Beach for Townsville.
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