Tuesday, February 19, 2008

Mission Beach

Tuesday we awoke to sunshine hooray!!!

A trip to the Visitor Centre gave us all the info for our day out - South Mission Beach palm fringed; about 2 miles long and deserted it also ran into a bautiful rain forest walk which hugged the coast line for about 2 miles. the atmosphere was hot and breathless the fauna was very green and lush, and some of th massive butterflies fluttering close to us were quit breathtaking.

In the afternoon after a refreshing and cooling dip in our pool we drove up to garners Beach again deserted then down to Lacey Creek rain forest lush and dense and streams full of fish and small turtes. views across to Dunk Island and the Pacific were truly amazing - on a nice sunny day.

Mission Beach itself is a quaint little resort with lots of nice eateries, takeaways and boutique style shops a very friendly hospitable place with a relaxed laid back atmosphere.

Once curious spectacl we experienced on th beach in the evening was a group of kids twirling fire sticks similar to baton twirling majorettes - interesting but .......unusual!!!

We didnt hang around for the sacrifices or th whicker man to appear!!!

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