Mission Beach, briefly

I'd got three days to kill before Nik arrived from working in Tully (just 30 mins down the road), and I spent most of them hanging around on the gorgeous beach at Wongaling, which is the middle settlement of Mission Beach (there's 14 km of beach, with South Mission Beach at one end and, um, North Mission Beach at the other). There's not much to tell about that really, insert your own visions of me wandering barefoot up and down the golden sand under blue skies, gazing off to the palmtrees fringing the beach and the green-rainforest of Dunk Island across the water.
(To add the paradise-like feel, the hostel gave you a towel. A fluffy, big towel! It might not seem like much, but after using a tiny travel towel for 5 months a big fluffy towel is amazing. But the beach was the highlight, obviously :).)
Apparently there are crocs near one of the creeks flow into the sea at the beach but luckily/unluckily, we didn't come across any during our wanderings!

Then Nik turned up, and we celebrated his birthday and freedom from the banana fields in ker-a-zee style with pizza from the Italian restaurant down the road, a bottle of wine and of course, cake! Some of the other hostel people even spontateously started singing Happy Birthday when I emerged from the kitchen carrying it, which was nice. He also got a ukulele, because he definitely needed something else to lug around the country as his backpack (literally) splits at the seams...

From Mission Beach we were heading... Back To Tully. Except we weren't really (thank goodness); it just happened to be the nearest Greyhound stop to our WWOOF host's place in Murray Falls. Her WWOOF book entry had been fairly basic, so we didn't really know what to expect (you never do with hosts, really, as much as they have no idea what to expect from us). Still, whatever it was, it would get us away from hostel-world, which we've got pretty sick of over the last few months...

written by  LizIsHere on June 18, 2010 from Mission Beach, Australia
from the travel blog: New Zealand & Australia 2010
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