Set the alarm, up early to go down the road to Tully (55kms) to do the tour of the Tully Sugar Mill. Got there nice and early, took a look around then headed to the mill in plenty of time. Phone rang before we got to the mill to say the morning tour had just been cancelled as they had no cane to crush. Come back at 1.30pm instead....grrrrrrrrr.
We wandered around the town of Tully for a bit of a look and found their "big" thing which was the golden gumboot. Seems a media group used to award the gumboot to one of three towns in the district who claimed to be the wettest town in Australia. Tully was the town to win it the most and have now built a golden gumboot to 7.9metres which is the amount of water in the rain guage in their record year of 1950. Thats 311inches in one year! We believe them as we have yet to see sky other than grey since arriving in the district. You can go inside the boot and the view from the top is good.
While we waited we took the scenic route to Paronella Park to check out their caravan park with a view to booking in there for a couple of days. They cannot fit us in their park so that answered that question. Lunched in the little coffee shop and then went back to Tully (40kms) for the delayed sugar mill tour.
Very very informative and the ladies doing the tours know their stuff and are full of usefull bits of local colour.
We may complain about the cost of some of lifes staples but it comes into perspective once you know just what it takes to put a bowl of sugar on your table.
YOu know what they say about Qld mother.....Raining one day, and pissing down the next. Beautiful sun shiny days here in Perth. Got myself sunburnt yesterday.
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