An idyllic locale on the northern Queensland coast; Mission Beach cosseted between mountains and Dunk Island in the Coral Sea and ours for a couple of nights.
We spent an entire day of the first floor verandah of our unit, buying all our grub for 2 days from the local Woolies, which allowed us the chance to spend all our time reading books and looking at the sea, while keeping an eye out for a stray Cassowary.
Since Hervey Bay we have traversed mile upon mile of sugar cane territory and near Tully bananas joined the mix. Simply magic!
And now we are on the road to Cairns, the tropics and perchance to hone our geography skills; Innisfail isn’t in North Queensland is it?
You bet it is!
Just ask the man in the big white hat. This area is the personal fiefdom of the member for Kennedy, big Bob Katter MP and the town is in two parts, old heritage and the newer Coles and Woolies which attracts opportunistic surrounding businesses and natty ring-road systems that makes any town expand.
Cairns, our ultimate destination on this journey, soon emerged and upon entering the city the navigator was on a rather protracted phone call to Allison, so driver instinct and intuition directed us straight to the Pacific International Hotel and our room on the 8th floor that is too big, even for a picture on the iPad.
We walked a fair bit of the CBD last night, with dinner up town and today we drove out to Kuranda and bumped into bent’ n ‘ twisted, Peter Jaensch, from the Galleria Markets, who now resides in this all-embracing market village.
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