30 October - 2 November 2025
With a reasonably short drive ahead of us to Googarra Beach we left the caravan park in Cairns right on check-out time, and headed south. We turned off towards Tully Heads and Googarra Beach. We had chosen this spot because the caravan park is right next to the pub and we thought it might be handy to have a meal there. We were also wanting to check it out as a possible venue for the next "boys weekend".
We drove past the caravan park and were unsure if it would be as nice as we thought, so we continued down to the beach and found a picnic area to have some lunch while we made up our minds. In the end we opted not to stay - the park was too far from the beach and there wasn't a whole lot of shade. Instead we decided to go back north to Kurrimine Beach.
Kurrimine Beach has always been a bit of a favourite, the caravan park is attached to the pub, right on the beach and with a nice pool and some shade. We checked in initially for one night but ended up extending that to 3. We had dinner at the pub on the first night and had a lovely relaxing holiday - swimming in the pool and walking on the beach.
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| Dinner and drinks with a view |
While we were there, youngest daughter Jo was travelling up the coast onboard a catamaran, on a work/volunteer trip surveying reef life and she let us know they would be stopping briefly in Mission Beach to swap crew members. We thought we might be able to time a visit to coincide with this but it just wasn't going to work out. We hoped we might be able to catch up in Cairns instead.
We made the decision to return to Cairns for a week, hoping that our new home would be ready soon. Of course, we went back to our favourite caravan park again.
