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Cardwell overlooking Hinchinbrook Island
(Sep 10 '05)
We had lunch here, small town and a beautiful spot although no swimming here - corcs! The pictures we took here will never be seen again because the next year the cyclone destroyed this part of the ...
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On a Cassowary Mission
(Dec 18 '06)
"6ft cousins of the emu with an electric blue neck, a red wattle and a razor sharp claw"
We awoke to the sound of rain pounding on the roof of our steamed up car, with numerous aches and pains resulting ...
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Looking For.... 'Big, Muscular and Hairy'
(Mar 21 '07)
The two hour bus ride from Cairns to Mission beach really did not do much to ease my worries and diminish the fact that I am having a hard time breathing. In 4 hours and counting I will be, ejecting ...
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Mission Beach
(Jun 08 '06)
Flew here from Brisbane late on 7 June and stayed in Mission Beach Backpackers Lodge, in Wongaling Beach for just over three weeks. During this time the weather was terrible; it rained a lot and I ...
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Mission by name, mission by nature...
(Nov 15 '06)
Mission Beach is the kind of place you arrive at and wonder why you did. There's nothing here! Any place with the word "beach" in it's name should have an exceptional beach - this one wasn't, ...
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Sky Dive!!
(Jun 04 '06)
"We had 60 seconds of freefall, the sky was clear and we got to see the Great Barrier Reef!"
We arrived in Mission about midday with the intention of spending about 3 days there, by 1pm the area was ...
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Mission Beach
(Jan 17 '08)
We all went to mission beach for one reason SKYDIVING. When we checked into our hostel late afternoon we were informed that they had a deal where as if you booked the 14,000 foot skydive through them ...
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Mission Beach- Mission Keep Dry!
(Feb 25 '07)
"Basically the sea is full of v.nasty killer jellyfish"
Following a 3 hour greyhound journey with the world's most talkative bus driver (he insisted on pointing out every peice of cyclone damage along ...
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Well after our tour of the Tablelands, we thought it best to head back out to the coast to continue our drive south. We headed out to Mission Beach, just south of Cairns but didn’t get ...
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Mission Beach and Tully
(Sep 11 '05)
Cassowary's are around but apparently there is not many left, there is a good information centre here with a film about the birds.
Tully has the most annual rainfall in Australia. The record ...
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Recent Blogs for Cardwell
Lucinda - the longest sugar cane pier in the world
(Sep 09 '05)
We took the side road in to Lucinda, it was swampy on the side of the narrow road all the way to Lucinda. It is a very small town, the only thing there is the longest sugarcane pier in the world, it ...
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Day 61 - SARAH'S - More RAIN!!!!
(May 10 '07)
We got up at about 9..and checked out by 10!!! We had to wait untill 5.30 pm for our busses to Cairns..so a lot of hanging around!!!!
We went on the internet and booked a hostel for Cairns!! We ...
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Mission beach
(Feb 26 '07)
Mission beach was good, the weather was still not great but most of the storms were at night and there were some decent patches of sun during the day. We felt well money here because a ...
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