20210622 Qld Forrest Beach, Halifax to Lucinda

20210622 Not far from Ingham is this quite streach of beach called Forrest Beach thats overlooking Orpheus Island, and the Palm Island Group. The town offers a small convenient store, Hotel, a fast food outlet and a long sandy beach for that daily fresh air walk or throw in a line if your keen for a fish. I manage some fly by shots of the surrounding area as we pass Ingham and drive onto Forrest Beach.

The sugar cane is on the move, the trucks are loaded and head to their drop off point to load the trains ready for the mill.

Suger cane, sugar cane and more sugar cane, this is the familar sceen as we head to Cairns.

Forrest Beach, a quite untouched streach of theQueensland coast line.

We camped the night in a $10 camp grounds and walked the area but the wind was blowing and it beccame chilly so after checking out the area we returned to our van in time for a nice coldie.

20210623 After breakie we pack up and checked out the Forrest Hotel and camping grounds before leaving, I was plesantly suprised at the moden vacilitys and right here in Forrest Beach.

Forrest Beach Hotel is set just back from the long sandy beach and is a nice place to unwind and take in the views of the Coral Sea.

Where now? no one knows but we are heading north, we pass Halifax and onto Lucinda that is directly opposite the southern tip of the World Heritage listed Hinchinbrook Island and one of the worlds largest bulk sugar loading facility and long jetty.

I ended up downloading this picture as there is no way I could capture it's true image, the jetty is the world's largest bulk sugar loading facility and is so long it actually curves with the earth. The jetty is six kilometre in length and it stretching far out into the Coral Sea, and when the weather permits, you can sometimes see the dugongs and sea turtles at play.

These guy hang around the fishermen waiting for that special treat.

Lucinda Beach and I could be wrong but I'm pretty sure the island in the back ground is the World Heritage listed Hinchinbrook Island.

Roaming the beach was this Curlew, certainly not one to get close to and there strange wailing calls has a prehistoric sound, well to me anyway.

We need fuel so we head into Halifax, named after Halifax Bay which was charted and named by Lieutenant James Cook in 1770. While Des filled his tank I went for a quick walk through the town to grab some photo's.

The main street in Halifax

The Commercial hotel was the first brick building in the district, built in 1915, to replace the original which was burnt down.

It was in 1882 when the first Hotel in Halifax was built, known as the "Copnell's Hotel" or Railway Hotel. In 1866 it was renamed the "Halifax Hotel" but it was destroyed by fire in,1902 and rebuilt in 1903.

Heading North
Location: Forrest Beach QLD 4850, Australia

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