Blogs from Tully, Queensland, Australia, Oceania

I'm back! I survived! And it's my job to write the blog again, as my lovely darling Michele was unable to attend the Tully River White Water Rafting with us. Up at 5:30 this morning. Bugger that for a joke. Although unlike most people on the coach, I didn't nap on the way to Tully. Speaking of the trip to Tully, never in my life have I seen so many bananas. And Speaking of Tully itself, it is apparently known for being the wettest place in Australia (which they decided to honour with a giant gumboot in town). Oh yeah, and also apparently the best rafting river in Australia and NZ. We organised our rafting trip through Raging Thunder, whose staff were all very friendly and amusing. After all the introductory jibber-jabber, we headed to the ... read more

When looking into a route for Australia, we found out that there was a small town called Tully on the northern part of the East Coast. Now, even though I am officially a Goddard, I still have Tully roots and thus wanted to take a good look around Tully. And as I’ve recently inherited some Tully roots, I went along for the ride. Next year I’m taking Cate to Goddard (in Texas). After not being able to contact any of the hostels in Tully for long enough to book a room for the next night on the silly payphones in Townsville, we decided to take the Greyhound from Townsville to Tully early the following morning then take another Greyhound bus from Tully to Cairns mid-afternoon the same day. Tully is a small town with a population ... read more