20210623 Qld Tully

20210623 The time has just turned 10.09 am as we enter, Tropical North Queensland, a tropical region stretching from Cairns to the Torres Strait. Right in our back yard is the magnificent Coral Sea of the Great Barrier Reef off the coast, and lets not forget our outstanding, World Heritage listed tropical rainforests that are scatted throughout the region with Cairns being the largest city.

Stopping at Tully brought back some creepy memories of my the last time here in 2007 when my son Kenny and his mate decided to take my sister and I, white water rafting down the Tully Gourge, well! what a desarster that turn out. To cut a long story short we had just started down the gourge when we hit a steep spot that instantly sandwitched the boat and threw us all out and we scrambled for what ever we could grab onto, at that stage the gourge was running at abour 95%, the most it had run in years. Lucky for us we had a spotter behind us who managed to coax Lisa of the rock she was clining to.

 He eventually got her to swim to me were we clunge to each other shaking and stuck on a rock. Eventually Kenny coaxed us off the rock, by getting Lisa to grabbe his hand, who in turn grabbed my hand. So here was Kenny trying to hang onto both of us with the water streaming passed in the middle of the rappads. Eventually he managed to get us back in the boat where we sat on the floor and hung on to the rope for dear life and didn't move until we reached the bank on the other side were I proptly jumped out never to return, Lisa how ever continued to the end were I picked them all up. 
"NEVER AGAIN"

As we pass Cardwell I managed a fly by shot of the mill bellowing smoke from it's huge chimneys, poluation free of cause, not.

Tully has the reputation of being one of the wettest towns in Australia, with all that rain, the Tully River is one of the best places in Australia to go white water rafting with excellent rapids that range Grade Three to the more challenging Grade Four, Tully is also one of Queensland's largest sugar cane and banana producers.
The main street of Tully.

The Tully Boot
"A Pretty Wet Place"
It is 7.9 metres tall which is exactly the highest annual rainfall ever experienced by Tully. In 1950 the town received 7.9 metres of rain, (311 inches - or, nearly an inch a day every day of the year). The gumboot features a mechanical rain gauge running from the heel to the lip of the boot and inside is a spiral staircase leading to a viewing platform. Along the walls are photos of past floods.

View of the sugar mill

The Tully Sugar Pioneers monument

We passed this sign that reminded me of Annie, my son's beautiful Scottish girlfriend who pronounce's it like "murd-der-ing", one of her sayings when she wants to murder my son and he's such a beautiful man.😂


MUR....DER
😅😂😆

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

20150809 WA Moora, New Norcia, Bindoon

Image
20150809  The town of Moora came from the Aboriginal name 'Moora' which means blowfly and is situated in one of the most interesting wildflower areas of the state and is the largest town between Geraldton and Perth, well! all I can say is, all the other towns must be bloody small.  The rolling hills on the way to Moora are a blaze with the vivid yellow flowers of canola and are just breath taken and apparently it smells like cabbage. Canola is grown for its seed which is crushed for the oil used in margarine, cooking oil, and a few more. The properties of the oil fits with the current view that human health is better served by increasing the intake of mono and poly unsaturated fats in place of saturated fats The Drovers Inn was built in 1909 and stands on the intersection of the town. The historical buildings are what gives this town it's charm. The New Norcia Benedictine Community is the official title of the group of Roman Catholic monks who have
Read more

20190825 Qld Charleville Rock Pool

Image
20190825 About 12ks before Charleville there’s a Rock Pool that was once a quarry and in the summer months a great place to take a dip and cool off but now it’s a great place to camp while sitting around a fire with good friends enjoying and cold ale and what better reason but to catch up with Dick. We joined Dick for a run into town for supplies and stopped to check out the Tower Mural, featuring the youths of Charleville intertwined through sports, painted in a 3D style around a tall, narrow 30-metre-high tower. Our camp for the next few days with Dick’s music blasting out the camp and yes, we had to turn it down because it was keeping a baby awake, next time I’m putting up a sign “NO KIDS ALOUD”. The boys go in search of wood and drags back a large log, now that’s the way to do it Dick. Sit on the log Dick, so I can get a photo, ya sure that will never happen, spoil sport. Gee! somebody looks pleased with himself; anyone would think he cooked it, I guess it
Read more

20210421 NSW Standing Stones to Tenterfield

Image
20210421 We woke to a 1 degree bloody freezing morning, thank god we have a diesel heater, we meet a couple who came in late yesterday afternoon who didn't have a heater at all, stuff that. Des decided to go back to Glen Innes and find the Australian Standing Rocks, as they are called, not Stonehenge as I thought so I set google map for the site and within 10 minutes good old Google guided us in the correct direction. The Stones were created in 1991/92 and the stones commemorate all Celtic people who helped pioneer Australia. The Stones acknowledge the contribution to Australian culture made by people from the Celtic nations of Scotland, Ireland, Cornwall, Wales, the Isle of Man, Brittany, Asturias and Galicia. Look! is that a little leprechaun roaming the grounds .😏 The Ancient Celts were farming people who lived across Europe and the British Isles around 2600 years ago and raised stones as calendars to mark the change of seasons to help indicate when they should sow and harvest.
Read more