Tinarroo & Etty Bay

Just for a change of pace we headed inland through the Atherton tablelands. This is an area of rich, lush farmlands and rainforest's. We stayed in the town of Tinarro Falls for over a week and fell in love with the place. Lake Tinarro is a huge man-made lake with an abundance of Baramundi and red claw crabs.
Our niece Tracy, husband Brendon & their best mate Buddy came down for the weekend and we all spent a day on the lake trying to catch a feed of fish and crabs. We didn't have much luck with the baramundi but after leaving the crab nets out overnight we managed to get a feed of red-claws.
Our next stop over was in beautiful Etty Bay with magnificent ocean views, and interesting wildlife. We had a visit from one of the local Cassowaries and Bob made a new friend. The largest animal in Australia's tropical rainforest's, the endangered Cassowary stands as high as a human and weighs over 60kg when full grown.
We also had a visit from a huge goanna but he wasn't quite as friendly as big bird!
We then took a day trip into the town of Tully which is a rich sugar cane growing area. The caning industry has come a long way from the days when Bob was a cane cutter and everything was done by hand. Nowadays, machinery cut the cane and then haul it by small trains into the sugar mill. Tully is also famous for the large amount of annual rainfall they have. The huge boot in the photo stands 7.9 metres tall and this represents the record annual rainfall of 7.9 metres in 1950. Now that folks is serious rainfall!