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 .
