TUESDAY 2 JUNE     MISSION BEACH

It rained through the night and occasionally through today, too.

I walked to the photo shop. It was closed, with a sign “at jetty”. Not much help as I can hardly collect my photos from there!

Then we went cycling. John wanted to ride the walking track from the Licuala Palms place we were, the other day, to Lacey Creek – some 7kms. However, his sense of location was totally astray today. He didn’t take the Tully road but sailed on straight ahead, so I decided he must have intended to start at Lacey Creek. But he kept on going past that track turnoff, and was too far ahead to hear me calling out to him. After a further 5kms, I caught up, and we turned back.

Eventually rode the 3kms extension part of the Lacey Creek track. It was very slushy, narrow, with many tree roots across the track and some creek bridges. It really was a walking track, not a cycling one. There were hanging wait-a-while vines, which are very nasty things to encounter at any speed! We walked much of it – pushing the bikes. It was not much fun.

If it looks wet and miserable, that’s because it was!

We would have done better to leave the bikes and just walk the track

A leech attached itself to my  ankle. Eventually, I spotted it and got it off, by lighting a match then applying the hot head to the leech, which dropped off. Blood! Mine.

Lacey Creek, in the rainforest, was very pretty

I refused to ride the rest of it, so we rode back into town on the roads. We did 21kms in all.

I collected my photos as we rode past. They were damp by the time we got back to the van – not in a decent folder. Very poor business – I am not impressed with that place. The photos dried out ok.

It was a very late lunch.

Later in the afternoon, John went fishing with the man from our neighbouring van. They are a very nice couple from SA, who are heading inland from here.

There was an older couple on the other side of us when we first arrived. They moved a couple of sites further up, when it became vacant, because it had an annexe area with lino on. They have a sign “Dunneevue” on the front of their van! I cringed when I saw that. They are here for 2 or 3 months.

John came back from fishing at dusk, with a dart and a “bonefish”, and quite pleased with himself.

Tea was warmed up left over bubble and squeak. It hadn’t improved any!

My leech bite itched all night.