I thought the drive to Airlie Beach from Proserpine Airport was especially interesting, though it was mostly sugarcane. Our bus driver was informative and we finally learned some of the particulars of growing it (when it's ready to harvest; how they harvest and replant; and why you'll see fields of all different heights next to each other). There's a tiny little railroad track that snakes between all these fields and when they harvest it they load up big box crates on the little train. Not even really a train.. more like a push-cart that runs on the tracks.
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| The area around Airlie is very flat, a wide basin in between hills. Where it wasn't cleared for sugarcane it was so very scrubby. |
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| Sugarcane fields, both cut and ready. |
Didn't take many pictures in Airlie; we were only there for an afternoon and the camera battery died shortly after we picked up lunch of fish & chips. It's pretty touristy and nothing much seemed especially spectacular about the downtown. But I snapped a couple from the bus on the drive in, our hostel, and, of course, in the marina. Our boat's out there somewhere... (more on that shortly.)
Like Brisbane, there's no beach (even though it's on the ocean, but it's pretty much all marina) so there's a large waterfront park with an artificial beach on a big concrete swimming lagoon. We went swimming in the afternoon (almost chickened out, it is still winter), though our real swimming adventures weren't for another two days. (Little did we know.)
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| Where are you, Ragamuffin? |
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