Murph and Crowey: Mission Beach - 10.10.2012 to 16.10.2012

Moving down the highway Mission Beach was our next destination. Crowey had a family friend by the name of Julie who lived there and invited us to stay next door to them on a vacant block of land, perfect! We ended up staying almost a week at Mission Beach, such a pretty little town even though they had experienced the terrible cyclone Yasi back in Feb 2011, which created a lot of damage in the town and the surrounding forests. The property market is quite cheap there with many homes for sale. Tempting but no jobs in this area would probably only suit a retiree who wants the quiet life. The weather was good to us and we had a great time with Jules and her partner Callam. Some days we thought we would leave Mission Beach but then Callam would come over for a morning coffee that soon turned into lunchtime with our banter and stories, of which Callam is quite the story teller (we are still unsure of the story about his friend who believes he was abducted by aliens). During our stay we ended up attending the local music fest, which probably turned out to be quite disappointing but never the less we still enjoyed a few acts. It certainly bought some interesting people out of their bush hideaways.

Our time at Mission Beach was quite enjoyable and I think we felt a little reluctant to leave but we decided to keep moving towards Townsville. On the way down to Townsville we dropped in to see Murray Falls where a walk up a hill takes you to the top of the falls then down again to enjoy a