The waterfalls and the Dingo beach

This is the third post about my holiday.

We found this little waterfall and swimming hole tucked away on a longish gravel road over a little bridge with water flowing over it but what a pretty place so worth the slightly hairy drive.

It was popular with the locals, the older couple told us their life story, the younger ones are their children and swam here as children.

This is dingo beach as you can see the weather is turning bad again this bay was alive with tiny crabs, they were everywhere.

This is such a pretty place.

lots of trees they grow right down to the shore

by the time we got back to town the rain was coming down so we now have very fashionable rain attire.

Dee and I are matching in blue

With my new sunglasses.

After fun on the beach.

This morning we tried to book our trip to the reef and guess what all trips to the reef are cancelled for the week because a cyclone is forming off the coast and a king tide is expected so we hired a car and went exploring around the local area.
This is at Bowen where the mangoes grow or so I always thought but this was the only one I saw and it didn't look to tasty, but the green ant likes it.

well enough playing with big orange mangoes, there is some blue sky.

but still lots of wind.

We were taking pictures of our hair blowing in the wind

Dee's is creating a new style

me too, ok if you face into the wind.

Found a great little beach to while away the afternoon

Why do you always find a pair of thongs on deserted beaches these don't even match.

one other person beside us just about perfect.

and look at that sky

Time for a little beachcombing

Just finishing off my packet of chips I have many new best friends

And guess who found a coconut

well always fun to play with

Lots of lovely sunshine but we will not see the reef this trip as all boats are still grounded you wouldn't think there was a cyclone coming.

Hamilton Island and the ferry.

After Dee arrived from America and she spend a day catching up on sleep we set off for Brisbane to my son and daughter in law place, the next day the four of us flew up to Hamilton  Island for our Barrier reef adventure, the moto for  Queensland  it "beautiful one day perfect the next" but no one told the weather.
We landed on the island a very short runway a bit harry but we got down safely.

As you can see a bit damp.

But still a beautiful place

We caught the ferry to Airley beach we do look a bit grumpy

Thinking of buying this boat when I win the lottery.

Look calm sea

not so calm sea, it was rough and my tummy was not happy,  it didn't worry Dee or the others much.

More rain

Arrived at our hotel looked like clearer weather

Then the wind started

and got worst but this was only the first day

There is always tomorrow, will fill you in on what happened next.