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    • Day 17

      Adios Mission Beach

      October 4, 2022 in Australia ⋅ ⛅ 27 °C

      Yesterday pm: Once back from our viewings of the other local beaches, we took a walk along ‘our’ beach and declared it the best. We were shaded by the palm trees, there was a sea breeze - bliss.

      There were lots of fallen pods (coconuts?) strewn on the sand and we mused how far they might drift on the ocean before washing up and taking root on an unknown land (or the next beach!)

      I was aware of someone striding behind me and a women smiled and started talking to us. Her name was Jilly and she had an eccentric but hugely likeable air about her. She was a local, and we chatted for ages. She regaled us with stories of her travels, to South Asia, Bali and around Aus; she commiserated with us over the Queen and remembered the time she’d met and spoke to ‘Prince Willy’; she told us about her photography; she warned us about sun exposure, explaining she had a basal cell carcinoma (the most common skin cancer in Aus).
      It was one of those encounters that leaves you feeling upbeat and feeling lucky to be in that place at that time.

      This morning I woke (too) early, as it was hot through the night. There was then no excuse to miss the sun rise, which was a moody one this time, with dark clouds. Then it actually rained, for 3 whole mins 😳

      Check out time is always 10am, and pretty much on the dot, off we clunk down the road a bit.

      Today’s sound effects are brought to us courtesy of soy sauce and garlic oil, who are getting to know each rather well (I suspect the mixed herbs are feeling very left out).

      More rain as we proceed along, finally arriving at Cardwell, where a sea food place has a big crab on its roof. 📸

      We than see a big mango, so we’re obliged to stop 📸

      It was a place called Frosty Mango, where the woman on the till fully met the frosty brief. I had to return the (incorrect) drink she’d given me and she dealt with it with the snarly, bad grace of a Tasmanian devil.

      So ‘big things’ are landmarks here, we encountered a cassowary yesterday 📸 and we’ll see a few more hopefully, if I’m not snoozing that is.

      In fact, just decided I’ll keep all these ‘big’ pics in one place which I’ll keep updating

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