Mission Beach

Location: Sydney
Weather: Warm

Stayed 2 nights in Mission Beach at the Mission Beach Backpackers Lodge. This place was reknowned as having a beach and nothing much else and that is a good description! Everything was closed at 7pm when I decided to have a look around. I went on a rainforest walk with this German dude called Gregor, sadly we didn't see any cassowary birds, the reason for going on the walk and the only other thing Mission Beach is famous for, but all we saw was a large brown rat.

On the last day I took a ferry to Dunk Island (yet another resort island), had a quick look around and luckily took the early ferry back. The waves were very choppy even then and the next ferry was at 4pm and just around that time, whilst I was waiting for the bus, I noticed some large black clouds approaching from over the mountains. Suddenly a tropical storm hit the place! thunder, lightning and torrential rain covered the area. A tree outside the hostel actually got struck by lightning and fell over! But the bus had no problem with this and just rolled on out to Cairns.

A Cassowary is supposed to look like this:

By JamesReed on 03.11.04 @ 12:31 AM GMT