Ingham Day1

Another easy morning as we did not have to move away today. 

After breakfast, I went for a bike ride around the perimeter, approximately, of the town of Ingham. It had rained briefly overnight but the morning was beautiful and sunny. It was nice to see the variety of dwellings and to discover businesses that are not readily visible to the average tourist. Some parts are probably not of tourist interest such as an earthmoving business. I was out for about an hour and managed to bring the heart rate up.

Following my shower, we drove into town. We went to JK's Deli’, in Lannercost Street, Ingham, that I had been to last year as I passed through. We were not disappointed with our cappuccinos and I had toast.

Then we drove in a westerly direction to visit the Wallaman Falls. As we drove through the cane fields we did notice some cyclone damage to some buildings and trees. The closer we  drove to the foot of the mountain the more we saw cyclone damage. So much damage to the plantation. Some trees were ripped out of the ground, some broken off up the trunk and others with the foliage ripped off and now some of it is regrowing.

We drove slowly up the winding mountain road noticing damage to the trees and also to the road. There is work occurring now on the road. Quite a number of people doing the road repairs and cleaning up the road verge.

Eventually we arrived at the spectacular Wallaman Falls. The car park was quite full up. We park next to an English couple that we spoke to on numerous occasions while we walked around looking at the Falls. They are spectacular Falls and nothing can easily change that although the trees up there were also damaged from the cyclone too.

After we finished walking and looking around the Falls it was time for lunch. We boiled up some water on the butane stove to enable us to have a cuppa’. We ate our sandwiches and had the cuppa’. 

Then it was the slow drive down the winding road back into Ingham. We diverted to the Caravan Park to collect our clothes from the line after washing.

So we moved off again but this time we went out to Forrest Beach, passing the very large Victoria Sugar Mill, where we had a quick look around. The Victoria Mill produces up to 25,000 tonnes of raw sugar each week most of which is exported overseas.

Our next village was Halifax which appears to be a service village, or was in the past. Quite a few homes and a few shops there. 

Next it was to Lucinda where the longest sugar conveyor platform is located. It runs for some kilometres out to sea to avoid the shallow waters. A ship of up to 40,000 tonnes can be loaded from this terminal. It is built to withstand cyclones as it has done numerous times since it was commissioned.

Then back to the Palm Tree Caravan Park for a feed of fresh prawns and fish for dinner. Before dinner we had a lovely chat with the owner, Craig. As I have mentioned before, this is a very friendly and clean caravan park.