After branching east off the Bruce Highway a couple of kilometres past Tully, a loop road runs 18km through canefields and patches of rainforest to Mission Beach , the collective name for four peaceful hamlets strung out along a fourteen-kilometre stretch of sand – the area owes its name to the former Hull River Mission , destroyed by a savage cyclone in 1918. Aside from the lure of the beach, forests here are a reliable place to spot cassowaries , a blue-headed and bone-crested rainforest version of the emu, whose survival is being threatened as their habitat is carved up – estimates calculate that … more »
Located in Far North Queensland, about 1.5 hours south of Cairns, Mission... more »