We had such a great night’s sleep and woke up to a beautiful morning, over breakfast we had to decide if we should drive the 3hrs to Townsville and stay the night there so we could drop the car off at the airport by 10:30m, or stay at Mission Beach. There was a lot of activities to do a Mission and pretty much nothing to do in Townsville, so we decided to stay at Mission and get up early enough to make it to the airport. We found out that the beach had a net in the ocean to keep the stingers out so we went to go swim in the ocean and hang out on the beach without stinger suites on!
The beach was so pretty, golden sand, Palm tree's, beautiful clear blue ocean and Dunk Island off in the distance, we thought we found paradise! We decided to take our fist dip in the ocean without stinger suites since Sydney, and as we waded in we were shocked by how warm the water was, we knew it was the tropics but we felt like we were in a bath! With the heat and humidity outside the water was not refreshing at all, so we walked along the beach and watched some skydivers land just ahead of us. On parts of the beach there were thousands of little balls that were so soft to walk on, it was from the crabs digging there holes in the sand and rolling out the extra, it looked and felt really cool. We took one last dip in the very warm water and then headed back to the pool hoping it would be cooler and offer us some relief from the heat.
The pool was everything we hoped it would be; we spent the rest of the afternoon sun tanning, swimming and reading. At 3pm we took a free tour offered by the hostel to spot some wallaby's and possibly a Cassowary, we were thinking it would involve some sort of hiking but once in the van the gal told us it was a driving tour. It was just Paul and I on the tour so the gal showed us some more of the town and took us to the spot where the wallaby' s come out of the tree's and on to this field, at first we only saw a few, but just at tree line in the shade we spotted a lot more lying around. They were so cute, we even saw a grey kangaroo laying in someone's yard like it was a dog or a cat! As we were driving to a second spot that wallaby's frequent Paul and I noticed a Cassowary in someone’s front lawn! Holy crap we could not believe it! We had the driver pull in front of the house trying to get the best angle for a picture; the Cassowary was an adolescent not too big (probably 6 feet tall) and just starting to grow the plate on his head. He kept walking behind some bushes and would be totally hidden from view then pop out eating a different tree in the yard. Finally after waiting for him to emerge we got a great pic of him from the side and watched him walk along the street like he owned the place. We felt so lucky to see one in the wild even if it was in a person's front yard. We were told they are rare to see and even locals only see a few each year. This silly little tour turned out to be a big jackpot for us, and the hostel owner was pleased to see us so excited when we came back she even came over to hear the story. After the tour we had a nice dinner and played some cards a bit sad to leave Mission beach in the morning but excited to spot some Koala's on Magnetic Island.
The beach was so pretty, golden sand, Palm tree's, beautiful clear blue ocean and Dunk Island off in the distance, we thought we found paradise! We decided to take our fist dip in the ocean without stinger suites since Sydney, and as we waded in we were shocked by how warm the water was, we knew it was the tropics but we felt like we were in a bath! With the heat and humidity outside the water was not refreshing at all, so we walked along the beach and watched some skydivers land just ahead of us. On parts of the beach there were thousands of little balls that were so soft to walk on, it was from the crabs digging there holes in the sand and rolling out the extra, it looked and felt really cool. We took one last dip in the very warm water and then headed back to the pool hoping it would be cooler and offer us some relief from the heat.
The pool was everything we hoped it would be; we spent the rest of the afternoon sun tanning, swimming and reading. At 3pm we took a free tour offered by the hostel to spot some wallaby's and possibly a Cassowary, we were thinking it would involve some sort of hiking but once in the van the gal told us it was a driving tour. It was just Paul and I on the tour so the gal showed us some more of the town and took us to the spot where the wallaby' s come out of the tree's and on to this field, at first we only saw a few, but just at tree line in the shade we spotted a lot more lying around. They were so cute, we even saw a grey kangaroo laying in someone's yard like it was a dog or a cat! As we were driving to a second spot that wallaby's frequent Paul and I noticed a Cassowary in someone’s front lawn! Holy crap we could not believe it! We had the driver pull in front of the house trying to get the best angle for a picture; the Cassowary was an adolescent not too big (probably 6 feet tall) and just starting to grow the plate on his head. He kept walking behind some bushes and would be totally hidden from view then pop out eating a different tree in the yard. Finally after waiting for him to emerge we got a great pic of him from the side and watched him walk along the street like he owned the place. We felt so lucky to see one in the wild even if it was in a person's front yard. We were told they are rare to see and even locals only see a few each year. This silly little tour turned out to be a big jackpot for us, and the hostel owner was pleased to see us so excited when we came back she even came over to hear the story. After the tour we had a nice dinner and played some cards a bit sad to leave Mission beach in the morning but excited to spot some Koala's on Magnetic Island.
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