Back in the sweat
Well, the Tablelands are behind me and I miss them already. Blaž and I left the Wallaby this morning. Speaking of the Wallaby, I forgot to mention a big thanks to Rich for pointing it out to me in the first place. It seems rare that everyone at a hostel has an inviting smile and "hello" for you when you walk in, the Wallaby was a glad exception.
The drive down was very pleasant, got some sausage rolls at the "Highest Bakery in Queensland" -- no they don't make pot brownies, the town of Ravenshoe sits at the highest elevation in this fair state. After that we checked out the short walk down to Little Millstream Falls, which provided a lovely view and a bit of fun rock hopping along the banks.
Cruised back down to the coast, through the town of Innisfail-- and spent an hour there stretching our legs, doing some minor shopping and admiring the rare (for Australia) Art Deco architecture. Innisfail also made me realize a real benefit to Australia's lack of freeways: a thriving downtown. Innisfail isn't a tourist destination, but the town centre was all a buzz with locals doing their shopping and going about their business. This is what most of the USA must have looked like 40 years ago.
Finally rolled into Mission Beach and found that our intended hostel was all booked up, but the Treehouse, up the road had plenty of beds. The Treehouse is a YHA hostel a bit back from the beach in the rainforest, constructed open-air style like a treehouse. It's very pretty, but a little aged around the edges. A quick dip in the pool when the lack of welcoming smiles made me decide to head into town to find some dinner and some solo time. A prawn, bacon, mushroom, garlic pizza later and some ginger beer later, I'm at the internet cafe-- again trying to write down everything before they close up.
Got my general plan down now, I'm much happier about my ability to stick with the good weather. It goes from here clockwise around the country, all the way around, until I hit the northern road to Alice Springs, at which point, I strike south again, winding up my trip in Melbourne where I'll sell my car (what's left of it) and fly out.
Uplinks really suck here, it might be ages before I get to upload my pics.
Oh, and Lou, you can bite me.
Oh, and Mike, you can bite me, too.
Oh, and Mom, yeah, that porn thing, just kidding.... he he....
The drive down was very pleasant, got some sausage rolls at the "Highest Bakery in Queensland" -- no they don't make pot brownies, the town of Ravenshoe sits at the highest elevation in this fair state. After that we checked out the short walk down to Little Millstream Falls, which provided a lovely view and a bit of fun rock hopping along the banks.
Cruised back down to the coast, through the town of Innisfail-- and spent an hour there stretching our legs, doing some minor shopping and admiring the rare (for Australia) Art Deco architecture. Innisfail also made me realize a real benefit to Australia's lack of freeways: a thriving downtown. Innisfail isn't a tourist destination, but the town centre was all a buzz with locals doing their shopping and going about their business. This is what most of the USA must have looked like 40 years ago.
Finally rolled into Mission Beach and found that our intended hostel was all booked up, but the Treehouse, up the road had plenty of beds. The Treehouse is a YHA hostel a bit back from the beach in the rainforest, constructed open-air style like a treehouse. It's very pretty, but a little aged around the edges. A quick dip in the pool when the lack of welcoming smiles made me decide to head into town to find some dinner and some solo time. A prawn, bacon, mushroom, garlic pizza later and some ginger beer later, I'm at the internet cafe-- again trying to write down everything before they close up.
Got my general plan down now, I'm much happier about my ability to stick with the good weather. It goes from here clockwise around the country, all the way around, until I hit the northern road to Alice Springs, at which point, I strike south again, winding up my trip in Melbourne where I'll sell my car (what's left of it) and fly out.
Uplinks really suck here, it might be ages before I get to upload my pics.
Oh, and Lou, you can bite me.
Oh, and Mike, you can bite me, too.
Oh, and Mom, yeah, that porn thing, just kidding.... he he....
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