Mission Beach
So we left Cairns in the morning and were ready for our adventure in the Cookie Monster!
First stop - Mission Beach! Well, we were heading down the highway and I was doing all the driving, because poor Phil was not yet up to it after having the cast removed. It was a beautiful day and the roads are empty and straight winding through fields and fields of sugar cane.
I'd never seen a sugar cane field before and it was truly amazing. You get these tall tall green shoots and they sway in the wind, until the stem gets thicker and thicker and then is ready for cutting. As you drive past all the fields, you will keep going over railway tracks and there are signs warning you to be careful in case a train comes while you are going over the unmarked crossings. The train tracks though are tiny, like maybe a foot and a bit apart, so the train must be small, too! So later we found out that when harvesting, the cane is cut and then transported on the mini railway - how cute is that?
On our way to Mission Beach, we passed Murdering Point, which in olden days was thought to have been inhabited by an Aboriginal tribe that practiced cannibalism. Not sure whether that's actually true or not, but that's why they call it Murdering Point. We found a nice looking winery there, so we went in for a browse and came out with a bottle of this citrus wine. I forgot the name of the berry now, which is a shame, but it's some Australian lemony thing and they make a fairly sweet wine out of it. It's very nice when chilled!
So off we went, clutching our purchase and made it to Mission Beach, which felt like the world's smallest town. It's one road and that's it. We found a cheap campsite, right on the beach and it was beautiful. Mission Beach is basically a small town famous for it's beautiful beach, but you cannot swim in the sea, because of all the dangerous jellyfish. It's really tropical there and there are coconuts and palm trees and the vegetation is amazing and similar to a rainforest one.
We just spent the one night there, then went off down south.
First stop - Mission Beach! Well, we were heading down the highway and I was doing all the driving, because poor Phil was not yet up to it after having the cast removed. It was a beautiful day and the roads are empty and straight winding through fields and fields of sugar cane.
I'd never seen a sugar cane field before and it was truly amazing. You get these tall tall green shoots and they sway in the wind, until the stem gets thicker and thicker and then is ready for cutting. As you drive past all the fields, you will keep going over railway tracks and there are signs warning you to be careful in case a train comes while you are going over the unmarked crossings. The train tracks though are tiny, like maybe a foot and a bit apart, so the train must be small, too! So later we found out that when harvesting, the cane is cut and then transported on the mini railway - how cute is that?
On our way to Mission Beach, we passed Murdering Point, which in olden days was thought to have been inhabited by an Aboriginal tribe that practiced cannibalism. Not sure whether that's actually true or not, but that's why they call it Murdering Point. We found a nice looking winery there, so we went in for a browse and came out with a bottle of this citrus wine. I forgot the name of the berry now, which is a shame, but it's some Australian lemony thing and they make a fairly sweet wine out of it. It's very nice when chilled!
So off we went, clutching our purchase and made it to Mission Beach, which felt like the world's smallest town. It's one road and that's it. We found a cheap campsite, right on the beach and it was beautiful. Mission Beach is basically a small town famous for it's beautiful beach, but you cannot swim in the sea, because of all the dangerous jellyfish. It's really tropical there and there are coconuts and palm trees and the vegetation is amazing and similar to a rainforest one.
We just spent the one night there, then went off down south.
posted by Phil and Tanja @ 2:28 AM
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