We stayed at two places in Mossman the first was the Mossman Pool and Caravan Park, your nightly rate incudes full use of the 50m swimming pool so we had to make use of it. A fantastic pool so both Simon and I decided to do a daily swim. Lots of scrub fowl including the orange footed mound builders stroll around the campsite.
Mossman is a nice little town but with a very confusing crossroads in the middle of the town. It’s like an off centre crossroads with the added complication of a sugar cane railway running through the middle. It is right in the middle of cane season and the sugar mill is going all day and night so there are multiple trains coming and going every day. So the cars all have to give way to these trains! The actual train engine is painted vibrant yellow red and green just like a toy train.
The second place we stayed was the Mossman golf course. You stay right on the 14th fairway and get a reduced rate when you play. Played golf and I beat Simon thanks to my massive golf handicap. Really nice course with quite a few Par 3’s in the middle of thick rainforest, you had to hit a straight ball. Simon loved it golf and cane trains all in the same place!
Mossman Gorge is really stunning. I went twice once when Simon was working and then again with him when he was off. The first time I went there had been heavy rain in the night and the water was swirling around all the boulders and the second time it was very calm and much lower. There are warnings about the strong undercurrents around the boulders but nobody was taking any notice heaps of people in the water. I bought a book ‘Shadows of the Mountain’ by Robert Prince at the Gorge centre it’s a story about the first settlers arriving in the area to cut cedar and how as the years went on the aborigines lost their land. A very sad but fascinating read as lots of the places mentioned are still here.
Managed to see quite a few Ulysses butterflies which are brilliant blue but almost impossible to take a good photo of them