Mission Beach to Airlie Beach

We looked around Mission Beach, decided we didn't want to stay, we thought we would head further south, we still have a long way to go and out time is getting shorter.

Before we reached Ingham we were stopped on the side of the road for about an hour as there must have been an accident, the traffic was backed up quite a long way and around a corner so we couldn't see what was happening but when we finally moved there were police cars and police all around, and also in someones car, we couldn't see if there was any damage, if there was it was on the side away from the road. 

There are sugar cane fields and banana plantations all the way along the Bruce Highway.

We stopped at Wallman Falls, Australia's highest sheer drop falls at 305m.  It was very foggy, when we first got there we couldn't even see the falls.  Luckily it cleared up a bit so we were able to get some photos.  It was a horribly long drive, a fairly steep and winding road.  It would have been awful if we couldn't have seen the falls after taking all that time to go there.

just cleared up enough to get a few pictures

Dalton taking a picture of me, taking a picture of him with the waterfall in the background

I just thought this was a beautiful picture, I love the plants here and wish I could grow them

We stayed at a place called Ayr for the night.  It had great showers, very large.  We bought a Big 4 Membership as we spend half the time in Big 4s as opposed to the Top Tourist that we get discounts at through AllSeasons.

We got to Airlie Beach, Dalton says it has changed a lot since he was last here.  It is supposed to rain for the next few days but it only rains on an off, you never know when it is going to happen and it never seems to last long enough to worry about.

a very pretty setting for our van

the pool, very refreshing

A tree full of Lorikeets, they know it is feeding time at 4:00 and they start arriving at 3:30 and they make quite a racket while they are waiting to be fed

They are really pretty birds, not very polite though

The little fellows have sharp claws, I have some skin missing now.  Some are gentle and some really hang on tight.

Dalton just wanted a picture of the cattle as they are pretty ugly, loads of skin hanging, among other things

They really take over the road and we were not planning on arguing with them