We woke up way earlier than we normally would, around 7 am. We got ready for the day, and given we had a few hours before we had to head off we decided to walk down to the local national park – Cape Pallarenda Conservation Park – which also had a bunch of old Army defence posts. It was really interesting to walk through it, even though the individual buildings had very little or no signage at all. As we left the park, we walked through what turned out to be an original quarantine station museum, which I found fascinating and Manja would have found fascinating if we’d had breakfast before.
So we moved back to our Airbnb and set off to breakfast… well, brunch at this point. We had decided on another google recommendation and visited the Odyssey on the strand cafe. Breakfast was good and we walked along the beach for a bit, even sticking our feet in the water around the stinger nets.
Eventually it was time to set off though. Our next stop was a place called Wongaling on the Cassowary Coast. We were reminded that it really is carrowary country as we drove down a long road through the rainforest with plenty of “Caution Cassowary” signs.
I mean it’s unlikely that they would just wander the road…. I said as I had to slam on the breaks because a FAMILY of them crossed the road in front of us. It was so unexpected that Manja only just managed to capture them on video as I raced to catch up to them.
About 20 minutes later, which I drove MUCH more carefully, we arrived at our accommodation. It’s a lovely bed and breakfast run by an old couple who clearly love their property and the surrounding area. We got totally bombarded with recommendations on what we should see in the area.
The road
For the evening we decided to book into a little Thai restaurant they recommended, walking over there along the local beach. Amongst other things we saw this lovely crab making a heart-shaped pattern on the beach:
Dinner was fine, but not special. To walk off the food, we walked along the local beach for a bit and found the remains of what must habe been a magnificent creature. We are guessing Rainbow Lobster. From what we could tell it was dead on arrival at the beach, but a local dog had a good old go at it too.
After trekking back it was already time for us to drop into bed.
One bed for dropping into as booked.
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