Queensland Accommodation Mission Beach

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	Relax in our 'to die for' swimming pool, (is there a better one in other Queensland accommodation places ?) with a great waterfall feature which has the rainforest as the backdrop. Can you spot the landlord and landlady relaxing by the pool ?? Have they finished all their chores ??
	Breakfast is served on the main upper verandah, from the award winning Queenslander pole home. Spot native wildlife, including the Mission Beach cassowary, from here. And yes all the flowers are real.
	The view of the grounds of this Queensland Accommodation as you drive in. The main house is on the right. In the centre background are three very tall Alexander Palms, native to East Australia.
	View from the swimming pool. In the foreground is the Bromeliad corner of the garden. Mission Beach is so close to the Great Barrier Reef - why go to any other Great Barrier Reef accommodation ??
	View from the Tropical Ginger and Heliconia section of the garden. Most of the gingers and heliconias were flattened by cyclone Larry but they should all be flowering by mid-2007. And don't forget, if you want any cuttings from the garden, just ask the head gardener (or is he still the under gardener ?)
	View of the house and the guest accommodation from the gazebo. Why is it that there always seems to be a car in the photo ?? The guest accommodation of this Tropical North Queensland accommodation is two storeys, so imagine how high those Alexander palms are.
	Quite a good view of the main house and the guest accommodation. Surprisingly, there doesn't seem to be a car in the photo, but the rainwater tank is clearly visible. A lipstick palm is on the right hand side.
	A shot of the main house at night taken from the guest verandah. At ground level is the guest lounge. On the left is the 'bar' area, and at the back of the lounge you can just about make out the 'library' where you are more than welcome to swap paperback books. Dan Brown's Da Vinci Code seems to be the most popular book by far.
	And here is our resident croc sunning himself by the swimming pool. Just kidding folks!! This little cutie can be found at the Crocodile Farm just north of Innisfail - about 45 minutes from Mission Beach. For more wildlife (plants as well as animals) photos have a look at our Wildlife page.
	And a view of the swimming pool (best in the area - probably !!) from the deep end. It is just over two metres deep at this end, and at the other end of the pool there is a beach entry - great for kids and big kids alike. A few Aloe Vera plants are growing in the foreground - very good for your skin (excellent for sunburn !!).
	A shot of the swimming pool at night. You are more than welcome to enjoy a romantic swim at night - the light switch for the pool area is below the guest accommodation, and the water lights come on automatically in the evening.

Just completed in June 2007 a fabulous Rainforest Walk at the back of the Guest units. See numerous species of wildlife (including squirrels, spiders, snakes and gnomes). Dare you walk down Snake and Spider Alley ?? Will you be able to cross the bridge unaided ?? Walk with dinosaurs !! How long will it take you to spot all the creatures ?? Click here to see more details of the Rainforest Walk.

To make your stay more comfortable, Guests have access to a large comfortable lounge (part of this Queensland accomodation) area with TV, hundreds of books (even some Mills and Boon stuff), VIZ comics, Oracle, HTML and Java textbooks, one or two Danish kids' books, a few German books, Triv, cards, chess, various other games, BBQ facilities, gazebo, microwave, magic fridge (never ending supply of soft drinks and beer) and laundry facilities. And if you must surf the web whilst on your holiday, then you can do it here

And best of all we have the complete set of Fawlty Towers and 8 episodes of Yes, Minister on DVD - so if it is raining, there is always plenty to do here at the Lodge. And we always have another six or so DVDs hired from the local video shop. Not always the latest releases, but there might be a film that you haven't seen before. And don't forget, Mission Beach is only an hour away from the great barrier reef.

Back to the best Mission Beach acommodation (probably)

This paragraph is pretty much a repeat of the final paragraph on the ROOMS page, so if you have read that, then don't bother reading the rest of this. So what else can I tell you about this fine Queensland accommodation. Well it was built in 1992/93 by a chap named Dave Christian, who is by all accounts a descendant from the sailors on the Bounty. Dave was a bit of a celebrity chef in the area, not quite on the Jamie Oliver scale, but a local celeb nevertheless. Anyway he would throw lavish dinner parties and they became very popular and people would want to stay the night, presumably because they were not capable of driving home that night. So he built the guest units for this fine Queensland accommodation, and people would come around pretty much just at weekends and have a great dinner and stay overnight. Thus a new Mission Beach accommodation house was born. The next owners, Gail and Michael (and daughter Jessica), did a wonderful job of promoting Licuala Lodge with lots of other Queensland accommodation places. They put in a great swimming pool, which I have got to say is one of the best in the area - lots of guests here at Licuala Lodge, Mission Beach accomodation, say it is a fabulous pool. (Not that I keep blowing my own trumpet). They also extended the house on the west side, and built a timber walkway between the units and the main house. Michael also put in a fish pond, for which I gather he worked tirelessly for many weeks. We had a real big wet season in 2003 and this made a real mess of the pond. Lots of water got underneath the pond liner and we had all sorts of trouble with the pond. So I decided replace the pond with a beautiful tropical garden, which took me many hours to get right. We had quite a lot of turf laid in 2004 (or was it 2003 ??), and I have now got rid of about one-third of it as it got too boggy. I have added more soil to the area, and improved drainage dramatically, in the hope that I can have several fruit trees there and a bit of a veggie patch. Tomatoes were a big success story in the last few months of 2004 - despite the warnings of the local fruit and veg man who said that all the tomato plants would get wilt. Well we proved him wrong, and we hope to extend the veggie garden in 2005. What more can I tell you about this Queensland accommodation. Well we are in the rainforest, and we are pretty much protected from strong winds as we are surrounded by trees.