Pirates of Hinchinbrook Island - Melbourne to Mission Beach Resort

25th July - Melbourne to Cairns to Mission Beach Resort Wongaling

We had an early start to catch our 6.10am flight Melbourne to Brisbane. We stayed at the IBIS to make the day more tolerable and avoiding having to get up at 3am.

We had a nice flight to Brisbane arriving at about 8.30am intime for a nice breakfast. We boarded our Cairns flight and departed at 10.20am arriving in Cairns at about 1.30pm.

We were picked up by Mission beach bus services - excellent service. There was some concern with Pete luggage, due to it being oversize it had been delivered to a different area within the luggage pick up so with our first crisis over we headed to Mission Beach Resort stopping along the way for a quick lunch at a servo on the side of the road.

After quickly unloading our gear we hopped back on the bus down to see James from Coral Sea Kayaking for a briefing on conditions, camp sites, intro to the boats and how to set them up and where to land when we arrived back a week later - pointing out some key land marks for us.

A leisurely walk back to our hotel before been picked up by the hotel bus shuttle service to take us into Mission beach for our dinner at the Pirates Den. It was an excellent meal with a great selection from the menu.

We were picked up and taken back to our hotel - we all slept pretty well that night.