DISQUS

travelphilippines · 1 year ago

very beautiful site love your site layout...

Nomadic Matt · 1 year ago

there's a reason they are called bananna benders!!

Stephen Hope · 1 year ago

There's quite a lot of other crops, but mostly not by the highway. If you'd gone off the main road near Bundaberg, there is a lot of vegetable farms - backpackers often stop there for a while and do seasonal work to get some quick cash. Just north of Brisbane you would have driven through plantation timber.

But mostly we use the coastal strip for sugar cane and bananas because they both like it wet - and the coastal strip gets a lot of rain showers even in drought years. Go over the great divide, were the coastal showers don't reach, and it becomes more like you were expecting.

Just south of Innisfail, at Tully, we got hit by a Cat 5 hurricane a few months after Katrina. It took out more than half of Australia's banana crop for a few years.

Tonnie · 1 year ago

Cairns was my 2nd trip to Australia. I liked it I wanted to fly over the Great Barrier Reef in a plane instead of a helicopter cause the flight is longer, but the weather was bad. But one day I'll go back to see the Reef.

Tonnie · 1 year ago

I also went to the World Heritage Rainforest there, I believe it was Karunda.