Cooktown to Mission Beach

Well I have been very slack my last blog was on 5th July and today is the 1stAugust!What have I been doing and where have we been?We spent 3 days in Cooktown,the Capt.Cook Musuen is a good place to be when its pouring of rain!The mountains disappear completly just a heavy veil off rain,thats rain forest for you!!at least its lovely and warm.We headed south to just north of Mossman,the road from Mt Molloy to Mossman is a very steep drop with hairpin zig zag bends that we negotiated very slowly or should I say Jeff did.It was so humid when I got out of the air conditioned car my glasses fogged up .We never book ahead for a site as we never really know where we will be or when we will get there,but Cairns area in the school hols what a nightmare!!We arrived at Lake Placid as we knew they took dogs but ther was no room at the inn!!We must have looked in need of a place to stay as they took pity on us and set up an area in the car park for us oh well it was only one night.Cairns doesnt have free camping the council think we caravaneers are messing people its not us but the wiz bangers(little camper vans)We moved on to Babinda free camp as long as you like hurray,but it is in competition with Tully for the golden gumboot award for the wettest place in Australia!While we were there it gave it a fair go of winning it,they can have 4Metres of rain a year!!its another place where the mountains dissapear completly.We are now in Mission Beach right by the beach opposite Dunk Island the nights are warm 19-21 degrees and the days sunny except when our son Thomas came to visit 3 days of very heavy rain as I said earlier thats rainforest for you.We did have a great trip out to the outer part of The Great Barrier Reef and saw 2 Humpback whales which was an amazing site.Mission Beach is a very laid back place,swimming,walking on the beach and happy hour and watching the skydivers jump the beach.I watch them everyday and I am starting to think I could do that 14000feet and 60 seconds of free fall,tandem of course,or perhaps I might just stick to walking on the beach.Well another day has passed by and its already time for happy hour so cheers everyone.