White water rafting at Tully River

In the evening we got to Mission Beach, a lovely little town (1090 habitants and supposing the same amount on tourists) near the Tully River. The town was really nice, long beachfront with a lot palm-trees all the way long. But really damaged by the cyclon Larry on the 20th of March. Houses without roofs, a lot of damaged rainforest etc. The only thing what you really can do on this relaxed spot on earth is skydiving and rafting! This time our adventure was going white water rafting at the Tully River near Mission Beach. There is a rating for the difficulty of rivers to raft: lowest is 1, highest 6. The Tully River is rated 4-5. This time (other than for the skydive) Silke was the scared person. But we both have to admit that we were expecting something more adventurous and exciting. Most of the time we were just paddling or streaming down the river. There were some exciting rips but we passed them so quickly…;-)! We don’t even fall out of the boat like all the other (a team of 8 went on the river at the same time) because we had the most experienced driver. Silke’s luck but for Dirk too harmless! Anyway it was a fun day as you can see.