This is a small vacation park near Townsville. It is on the beach front and we so much wanted to jump directly into the sea after so much time being inland.
But .... we were told about the "stingers" - this is the name for a few different kinds of dangerous jelly fish - mainly the most dangerous one - the box jelly fish.
From November to May the northern shores of the east coast are infested by these "meduzot".
It is very simple - if it's tentacles touch your stomach, you die from a heart attack from all the pain after about 20 minutes. So simply you don't go to swim on the beach. There are net enclosures for kids to swim in that don't allow the jelly fish to get in - but that isn't much fun.
We heard so many stories about the jelly fish - some ppl say it's the end of the season and they just go swimming saying it's more likely to die on a car accident to be touched by a box jelly fish this time of year and others always go in with a lycra suit that covers your body.
Any way we spent our time in the great pool they had there and went for day trips to the Paluma mountain range near by and swam in the rivers [no crocodiles in these ;)].
pictures:
Crystal lake at the Paluma reserve
Up high (~1000m) at Paluma overlooking the sea-
A water reservoir high up in the mountains with a dam that supplies water to the whole region -
Rolling stone park pool-
crystal lake -
Me jumping off a high rock into the crystal lake pool (we have a movie too but we can't post it here) -
endless fields of pineapple (this is the land of pineapple and sugar cane) -
Nitai making faces - his new smile with no teeth (they are just growing out now) -
at the rolling stone park -
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