Tuesday, January 19, 2016

CAIRNS MORE THAN 50 YEARS AGO

An  early view of the Green Island Underwater Observatory  is included in a Cairns  and  district, North Queensland , foldout  viewcard  posted  by a  Kiwi tourist  to Wellington , New  Zealand , in June 1962 , with  comments . Much appreciated was the weather, tropical fruit- mandarins, pawpaws,  custard  apples  and  pineapples. The railcar   trip to Kuranda , where the station was like a huge fernery, with staghorns  and orchids, impressed .  Beer , it seems, was  also  sold  at  the station.
Several  views  of the  Cairns  CBD, now  very much  changed ,  are  included as well  as  canefields  and  the Tully Falls  at  Ravenshoe .