We left Cairns in drizzling rain and took the Canecutters' Way, a pretty, quieter road, until we reached the turn off to North Mission Beach where we once again set up at the caravan park. Today wasn't a good beach day, grey and cloudy, so we decided a return visit to Tully Gorge was a good way to spend the day. Tully is the wettest town in Australia and it didn't disappoint, it was raining when we got there. We took the usual photo of the large Golden Gumboot, complete with green frog, and the large sugar mill in town, then drove towards the Gorge. The inevitable sugar cane lined each side of the road, with the occasional cattle grazing and then hectares and hectares of banana plantation for quite a few kilometres. Glimpses of the
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