The Mission Is Clear

There are so many beautiful places to visit in far north Queensland, but it's not so easy to find a holiday spot that hasn't been completely overused and developed to the point that it looses all of it's original charm and appeal. But we've had a few weeks to travel slowly down the coast, and we managed to find a place that is yet to be overshadowed by rows and rows of high rise apartments and where you can can get a decent cup of coffee or a fresh coconut off the beach, without too much searching. Heaven! Where is this little slice of paradise? Wouldn't you like to know! Ah, kidding. It's a town called Mission Beach.


Now Mission Beach is pretty much smack, bang in the middle of Townsville and Cairns so I doubt it will remain peaceful and relatively construction-zone free for long (Wait up - it may be already too late as we did spy a new Woolworths complex in the process of completion...). But it is worth putting aside a night or two to soak up the beautiful and relaxing vibe of this seaside town - actually Mission Beach is really four separate little towns connected by 14kilometres of sandy, coconut tree lined beach.


There's a bunch of lovely eateries, a few art galleries and even a tropical fruit winery in the tiny main street, and if you stay at the Dunk Island View Van Park (like us!), your $25 will buy you a 50metre stroll to the beach that has a view of... arh, you guys are just too clever! You're right! Dunk Island! You can push your relaxating break to the next level by staying over at Dunk Island too or take a day trip and snorkel and swim and parade around in a bikini pretending that you're on the set of Blue Lagoon.



So channel your inner Brooke Shields immediately and get your butt to Mission Beach pronto (before the rest of the Cairns/ Port Douglas crowd get sick of camping on top of each other and sunbaking on grass and high tail it to Mission too!).

Yours in the great outdoors,
Odette