http://everythingeverywhere.disqus.com/enWed, 09 Jul 2008 07:55:22 -0000http://everything-everywhere.com/2008/04/21/the-banana-republic-of-cairns/#comment-126007331<p>I also went to the World Heritage Rainforest there, I believe it was Karunda.</p>TonnieWed, 09 Jul 2008 07:55:22 -0000http://everything-everywhere.com/2008/04/21/the-banana-republic-of-cairns/#comment-126007330<p>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.</p>TonnieWed, 09 Jul 2008 07:54:08 -0000http://everything-everywhere.com/2008/04/21/the-banana-republic-of-cairns/#comment-126007329<p>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.</p><p>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.</p><p>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.</p>Stephen HopeMon, 21 Apr 2008 20:51:53 -0000http://everything-everywhere.com/2008/04/21/the-banana-republic-of-cairns/#comment-126007327<p>there's a reason they are called bananna benders!!</p>Nomadic MattMon, 21 Apr 2008 08:39:38 -0000http://everything-everywhere.com/2008/04/21/the-banana-republic-of-cairns/#comment-126007325<p>very beautiful site love your site layout...</p>travelphilippinesMon, 21 Apr 2008 07:01:08 -0000