Leaving Lakeland and heading for the coast felt like returning somewhat to civilisation – our destination today was Newell Beach – just north of Mossman and Port Douglas so back in the hub of holiday-making destinations – no  more red dust!

On the way we stopped again at Mt Carbine for their awesome homemade pies then ventured on down the Great Dividing Range to the coastal fringe through rainforest and cane fields.

Back on the tar made the driving so much easier so we listened to the next 2 sermons from the series we had commenced on Hebrews.

We arrived at the caravan park at Newell Beach after a brief grocery stop at Mossman Woolies and were greeted by Warren, the friendly owner of the park who escorted us personally to our sites.

The caravan park is directly opposite Newell Beach – unfortunately like all beaches up this far there is no swimming as large salties inhabit the area – and the Mossman River and Salty Creek open into the ocean at each end of Newell Beach making it a great environment form the crocs!!

Warren was very helpful and the park though small is really tidy and clean – well run and popular with many tourists from the southern states who like to winter here out of the cold. A communal happy hour is held every night at 5 in the camp kitchen – everyone here is very friendly and up for a chat – rivalling Gordie and Trev!!

Trev met a guy called Frank who spent a long time telling Trev about his son who was struggling with depression and Frank was so worried he felt he needed to go home. Gordie and Trev told Frank they would pray for his son… you never know but an opportunity to share the gospel may arise from simply listening to someone’s struggles…

We set up and planned the next couple of days booking an outer reef snorkelling tour for tomorrow and Jungle Surfing up at Cape Tribulation the following day – should be an exciting couple of days!!