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Wongaling Beach

South Mission Beach, Australia


Well here we are in the house in Mission Beach (or more accurately Wongaling Beach). This is right on the edge of the forest and we can hear all manner of animals including Cicadas (very noisy insects) which do their best to try and keep you awake at night. It's stinger season (small jellyfish) so it's not safe to be in the sea unprotected, so we have opted to swim in the pool (and just paddle in the ocean).

We spent the morning in the pool cooling off from the 32 degree heat ( sorry for those in England, just had to slip that one in!!!). We popped to the local town and picked up supplies for our barby tonight. Huge prawns and chicken kebabs washed down with lashings of Tooheys beer (and coke for the kids).

Back in to the pool in the afternoon and then down to the beach with our beers to hopefully meet some of the locals.

permalink written by  The Wilde Family on December 21, 2007 from South Mission Beach, Australia
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Gladstone to Cairns

Cairns, Australia


We caught the taxi to the airport, the security at Gladstone is certainly different to any other. We arrived within 40 minutes of our flight and were checked in and handed our boarding cards to the same person at the gate 30 minutes later!

The funny part was on arrival at Rockhampton we all had to disembark and put our luggage through security! We then reboarded the same plane and sat in the same seats!!

The journey was Split into four parts 25 minutes between Gladstone and Rockhampton, 50 minutes between Rockhampton and Mackay, an hour between Mackay and Townsville. The last part of the journey between Townsville and Cairns should have taken an hour but due to a storm over Cairns we were held outside for about half an hour. We experienced quite a bit of turbulence, which we all thought was great fun - some of the other passengers didn't find it very funny though!!

We landed approximately half an hour late and decided to do some shopping around Cairns. Unfortunately the weather was pretty wet and we came back to Mission Beach after a few hours. We stopped off at Innisfail for some shopping and then drove to our exchange home.

On the way back we spotted our first Cassowary bird - in the middle of the road!! Every time we tried to drive on he kept coming back on to our side of the road!!

permalink written by  The Wilde Family on January 8, 2008 from Cairns, Australia
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Back to Mission Beach

South Mission Beach, Australia


After a morning of waiting for the rain to stop the sun eventually came out to play, so it was pool time, in between sessions of packing and tidying, and BBQ in the evening; sigh, it just had to be prawns again.

permalink written by  The Wilde Family on January 9, 2008 from South Mission Beach, Australia
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Last day in Mission Beach

South Mission Beach, Australia


Today is our last day in Mission Beach, the sun is shining again (we have been very lucky with the weather seeing as, in these parts, this time of year is known as The Wet.)

Spent the day packing and tidying (in this heat you do everything slowly) and hiding in the pool.

Tonight we are going out for a final meal (kitchen has been cleaned and we, Shaun and kids, have been banned from that area.)

Tomorrow we go home but we are not sure which route to take as we have been told that the most direct route may be flooded and we may need to take a 2 hour detour via the tablelands.


permalink written by  The Wilde Family on January 10, 2008 from South Mission Beach, Australia
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