1st August: Cowley Beach to somewhere south

We Like Cowley Beach. James and Penny (and their three kids) took over the Caravan Park about 9 weeks ago, say mid June and have been working hard to get it up to scratch. We are sure they will... The CP office is the only facility at the locality; Post Office, Store etc.. We might book for a while next time. Kurrimine didn't appeal.

Bingil Bay

Anyway, today we have to relinquish our beachfront, so we will move on south. We will checkout most of the coastal 'resorts' along the way - starting with the loop from El Arish to Tully. This take in Bingil Bay; which is pretty, well pretty.


Following the coast, next is Mission Beach village, which is okay but cramped... Further on is Wongaling Beach and shopping centre. Woolies fuel!! The discount makes diesel $1.619 a litre. Best price for a while. (Works out to 20l/100km this leg) We bypasses going into Mission Beach South, and kept on to, or rather, through Tully.

Hull Heads

Just past Tully the next detour is Hull Heads and immediately south, Tully Heads. There is a 'cheap' campground at Hull Heads - full  of fishermen, er fisher people. No actually fisherMEN. We moved on.

So through Cardwell where we stopped at the beachfront just prior to town for coffee which became early lunch. So we are at the northern end of Hinchinbrook Island, mostly National Park, accessible by ferries/water taxi either end. Hinchinbrook is a veritable offshore mountain range about 35 KM long...

at Cardwell

Hinchinbrook from Cardwell

South of Hinchinbrook we peel off east again to Halifax, then north east to Lucinda - a port, and ferries to south Hinchinbrook. Thought we might stop - at the very full looking CP. It is full - Italian Festival at Ingham!!! So back to Halifax and south east to Taylors Beach. Much more civilised, quiet, tidy. No freebies tho - rare on the QLD Coast!!! But the CP has a site - one small powered one small unpowered. We will have power for $30 the night ($27 non!).
So today we have done about 230km for about 100km of the Bruce Hwy.
Well it is about the journey....