We woke to another warm day to wish us auf wiedersehen from Cairns. A very iconic looking mountain to the south of Cairns wished us goodbye too.
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| 190617 A signature mountain on the south of Cairns, also signalling auf wiedersehen from Cairns |
We are now on the Bruce Highway, the A1, which runs from Cairns to Brisbane. This means we are back to plenty of traffic, heaps of traffic lights, and rush, rush, hurry, hurry, a vast difference from our days on the Savannah Way. However we have adapted quite quickly.
The highway runs down the coastal plain with the ever present mountains on our right hand side and the sea on our left. Sea views however were minimal as we were not attempting to call in at beaches this time. We passed many signs alerting us to the presence of waterfalls and gorges on our right hand side, but we passed by these too.
While sugar dominates here, there were several banana plantations on the way. We bought some bananas at 25c each. Pineapples are grown here too, but we had passed the one plantation we saw, before we could stop for a picture. You know, rush, rush, hurry, hurry. The car and van take quite some time to stop from 100km/hour so, if we get no warning, we miss.
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| 190617 Not only sugar cane but also bananas |
Well known towns we passed through today included Gordonvale, Babinda (near Mount Bellenden Kerr and Mount Bartle Frere, Queensland's two highest mountains), Innisfail, Tully, Cardwell, Ingham and then into Townsville. We travelled 366km today.
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| 190617 Mt Bellenden Kerr, the second highest mountain in Queensland, with its top hidden in cloud. The highest, Mt Bartle Frere, was completely shrouded in cloud so we did not photograph it
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Townsville is in a rain shadow so the rain forest has deserted us for the moment and we are back to dry sclerophyll forests.
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| 190617 Castle Hill behind Townsville |
Our feature for today is the view overlooking the Hinchinbrook Channel and Islands.
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| 190617 Hinchinbrook Channel taken from a lookout south of Cardwell 190617 Hinchinbrook Channel and islands from the first lookout 190617 Hinchinbrook Channel and islands from a second lookout. The sugar terminal mentioned is at Mourilyan |
Given we are on the homeward run, we have a fair wind behind us. We have passed this way before, so we may not feel compelled to take too many more photographs. We did include some from south of Townsville during our around Queensland trip last November, so these could be accessed from that blog - November 2016.
However, tomorrow is another day, and some photos may just be unavoidable.
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