Both couples take a walk before breakfast, heading in different directions up the beach. Dot & Michael come across a number of small blue bottle jellyfish washed up on the beach.
Tony & Jenny arrive back some 2 hours later to advise that they had come across a lady dressed in a wedding dress & veil riding a white Andalusian Stallion [very similar to the Lipposan Dancing horses of Vienna] on the beach for a filming exercise, Time gets away watching the filming including the girl standing on the horse bareback whilst cantering. Tony and Jen have breakfast in town.
Upon returning and after a coffee, Tony & Michael go for an invigorating dip in the waves, whilst Dot & Jen take in the sun on some chairs left on the beach.
We then continue on and see the white stallion [mentioned above], along with a brown stallion and they ready for further filming.
We arrive back at the campground just in time for a heavy short rain shower.
Looking around the camp area in our vicinity, there is a lot of dollars in the caravan setups and 80+% of the towing vehicles would be Toyota Prados or Land Cruisers.
Another separate walk in the later part of the afternoon by both Tony & Jen and Dot & Michael. We come across Stinger treatment stations every 400-500metres along this beach as well as seeing them at other beaches. The stations at Mission Beach are sponsored by the Rotary Club of Mission Beach. We are coming into the stinger season for the next few months. We are also seeing hundreds of the Portuguese Man of War [blue-bottles] on the shoreline.
Two blackhawk helicopters, fully armed, fly in formation over the beach heading south.
Dot & Michael conclude their beach walk and pass a local bar……..stopping for a reviver - cold and pleasant NZ sauvignon blanc. We get into conversation with a friendly local couple – David & Christobel [secondary teachers at Tully] who give us recommendations of places to see and things to do.
Back to the Hideaway Caravan Park for meal and with extensive cloud cover the evening is a lot cooler which will make sleeping easier.
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