19 August – Tuesday
We left cold Atherton behind this morning and headed down the big hill to Kurrimine Beach. The 14 degrees of Atherton very quickly increased to 24 degrees as we came down the hill (nearly 900 metres). We had a quick stop at Malanda to look at another waterfall. This one was right on the edge of town, wasn’t very high, but the pool at the bottom had been developed into a proper swimming pool, complete with a sandy beach entry. Although no one seemed to be very interested in swimming this morning, I’m sure it is a very popular sight in summer. We also had another short stop to look at the Johnstone River (famous for white water rafting, and freshwater crocodiles) through the rainforest. We also drove through an area of forest inhabited by tree kangaroos – very privileged tree kangaroos as they had about six rope bridges across the road between the trees.
We are now at Kurrimine Beach for three nights before heading to Townsville. Kurrimine is just north of Mission Beach and no where near as commercialised. In fact, it is a small village with a pub and a service station, and two small caravan parks. We are only one block from the beach, which does give us a bit of protection from the wind. The beach is very long and we probably wont manage to walk the length of it. No swimming of course, - stingers and crocodiles.
Getting the caravan onto the site was rather interesting as the area for the caravan was quite narrow, with palm trees on one side and a raised concrete slab on the other. We had given up and were going to look for another site when a bloke ambled up and said he would go and get the tractor and put the caravan in for us. The back of the caravan is in the bushes and the door is only just over the concrete. It was a little bit stressful.
We left cold Atherton behind this morning and headed down the big hill to Kurrimine Beach. The 14 degrees of Atherton very quickly increased to 24 degrees as we came down the hill (nearly 900 metres). We had a quick stop at Malanda to look at another waterfall. This one was right on the edge of town, wasn’t very high, but the pool at the bottom had been developed into a proper swimming pool, complete with a sandy beach entry. Although no one seemed to be very interested in swimming this morning, I’m sure it is a very popular sight in summer. We also had another short stop to look at the Johnstone River (famous for white water rafting, and freshwater crocodiles) through the rainforest. We also drove through an area of forest inhabited by tree kangaroos – very privileged tree kangaroos as they had about six rope bridges across the road between the trees.
We are now at Kurrimine Beach for three nights before heading to Townsville. Kurrimine is just north of Mission Beach and no where near as commercialised. In fact, it is a small village with a pub and a service station, and two small caravan parks. We are only one block from the beach, which does give us a bit of protection from the wind. The beach is very long and we probably wont manage to walk the length of it. No swimming of course, - stingers and crocodiles.
Getting the caravan onto the site was rather interesting as the area for the caravan was quite narrow, with palm trees on one side and a raised concrete slab on the other. We had given up and were going to look for another site when a bloke ambled up and said he would go and get the tractor and put the caravan in for us. The back of the caravan is in the bushes and the door is only just over the concrete. It was a little bit stressful.
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