Day 9 - Mission Beach

So all good things must come to an end and we found ourselves on our last day in Mission Beach, taking it easy for our big drive back the following day. Which, by the way, I had us leaving at 4am to make sure we photographed all the big things on the way home!

We decided to visit Lacey Creek one last time for a swim, this time, going the less extreme jungle/spider web way and more the, 'pull up in the car park walk a few metres and dive into the water' way.

I also wanted to see the beach that, one last time...

By this time it was lunch and also New Years Day so we were lucky to find Millers open, right on the beach front

They served the yummiest pizza

maybe made yummier by my cocktail!

We drove back to Carmen's place and packed, but not before stopping in at one of the neighbouring banana farms. Unbeknown to me at the time, banana prices were cheap everywhere but I was all excited cause I thought I had hit the jackpot!

2 banana breads later and I'm still happy with my purchase. By the way has anyone ever tried to freeze ripe banana's? I did and let me tell you, what happens...the skin goes black in the freezer, you get them out to defrost and they defrost into this weird slimy mush. I googled and they're okay to eat, actually they are perfect for banana bread because you don't have to mash them up, but oh my goodness the texture is insane..slimy jelly and completely non appetising

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Day 2 Nth Qld - Tully

So on Christmas Day we woke up and opened gifts, I got the most amazing gift from the Glynn's

Just look at that presentation..gasp!

I was also surprised with a beautiful photo book that Ben put together for me :)

So after getting our Christmas cheer on we knew nothing would be open today but nature so we decided to take advantage of that and headed to Murray Falls which is close to Tully which is a town back from Mission beach *breathes out*

The town of Tully

It just so happens that Tully has a giant gumboot and so begins my mission to photograph all the big things in QLD! Or at least all the big things along the coastline. So why does Tully have a giant golden gumboot you ask? Well a rubber gumboot use to be awarded to the town with the highest rainfall in Australia, Tully is always up there with the winners and thus they took the small rubber gumboot to the extreme! I guess you could say extreme gloating!

What I like about this 7.9 metres high boot is that you can actually go inside of it. Ben and I have constructed a big things rating system and this is one of the scoring musts! More on that later though!

and one for good measure, found this highly amusing, me in gumboots standing in front a giant gumboot :P
amazing, no?

We then drove past the thriving Tully banana trees, at the time I was thinking why on earth was Brisbane's banana prices so high when there was clearly an abundance here and being sold so cheaply (on returning home I found out that banana are cheap everywhere!)

anyhoo we arrived at murray falls

such a lovely place

lots of birds

and butterflies

and the loveliest water to swim in

After exploring and getting wet on this amazingly hot and humid day we headed back into Mission beach to get a snap with Mission's own big thing..why yes the big cassowary

Ben got beeped by some guys in a car whilst posing for this shot :P

We stumbled across some more cassowary action in Mission Beach

but unfortunately no real cassowary sightings :(
The signs get you all excited but then majorly let down when you don't see any

That night we curled up to watch the Bill Murray scrooged film, I had never seen it but it was awesome! We also went on a failed frog mission in Carmen's yard and played with sparklers.

I have to say the perfect way to finish off Christmas!

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