10.08.07

ETTY BEACH

Left Cairns about 0900 in the warm sunshine (although it got cloudy later, usually does) and travelled through miles of sugar cane, usually very high and some being cut. Called into Babinda a nice little sugar town which has a HUGE amount of rain a year something like 2 metres! Had lunch at the bakery and the cane train ran past in the main street although didn’t get a photo.

Spoke to the chap in the hardware store for a while about cane, he said they plant every fourth year and cut the regrowth on the other years. He used to cut cane by hand in his youth.

Went on to the Babinda Boulders which were quite spectacular and the country is a picture with very lush growth and rainforest. This is the place where John Danielsen saw a chap fall when he was there and he was not found. A very dangerous place. There was a plaque there stating how some chap had died there in 1979 and may have been the one that John witnessed.

10.08.07

ETTY BEACH

Left Cairns about 0900 in the warm sunshine (although it got cloudy later, usually does) and travelled through miles of sugar cane, usually very high and some being cut. Called into Babinda a nice little sugar town which has a HUGE amount of rain a year something like 2 metres! Had lunch at the bakery and the cane train ran past in the main street although didn’t get a photo.

Spoke to the chap in the hardware store for a while about cane, he said they plant every fourth year and cut the regrowth on the other years. He used to cut cane by hand in his youth.

Went on to the Babinda Boulders which were quite spectacular and the country is a picture with very lush growth and rainforest. This is the place where John Danielsen saw a chap fall when he was there and he was not found. A very dangerous place. There was a plaque there stating how some chap had died there in 1979 and may have been the one that John witnessed.

We then went on to Etty Bay which is a lovely as we had been led to believe, only a small beach that is backed onto the rainforest, and there is colour in the water instead of the usual muddy colour we have seen previously.