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    Sam and Wendy. Lucinda. QLD
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    Forrest Beach

    July 24 in Australia ⋅ ☀️ 22 °C

    After leaving Alva a few days ago we changed plans and called into Forrest Beach on the coast outside of Ingham Qld.

    Sam invited us to drop in for a visit to their block of land they have had for a few years now and are spending winter enjoying the weather.

    I met Sam through her attending my women's workshops on The Deck in Bauple. We had a chance on this visit to get to know each other better. I am so very glad we had this opportunity.

    We had such a pleasant visit and Mark and Sam showed us around their little paradise with such beautiful geniune hospitality.

    Mark took us into Ingham for coffee the next morning and then a visit to Lucinda to see the jetty and have lunch.

    This is a beautiful area with the longest jetty to transfer sugar cane to waiting ships. It is truly remarkable engineering. There is literally sugar cane EVERY WHERE. Healthy huge acres and acres everywhere with the sugar cane trains running all the time.

    " The Lucinda Bulk Sugar Wharf in Far North Queensland features the longest service jetty in the Southern Hemisphere. It measures 5.76 kilometres (about 5.8 km) long, curves to follow the earth's actual contour, and is supported by more than 660 steel and concrete pylons."

    Hinchinbrook Island is right there. It is all mountains. It's massive. Huge. Incredible shape. Devours the entire view. And you have to book two years in advance to do the hike/camp around the island. I just had no idea. So now I have some yet visiting this island will have to wait for another time.

    "Hinchinbrook Island is a raw, rugged, and completely uninhabited national park featuring cloud-scraping granite peaks, pristine beaches, and the famous Thorsborne Trail. Located off the tropical coast of Queensland between Townsville and Cairns, it is Australia's largest island national park and limits visitor numbers to just 40 people on the island at a time.

    Accommodation: There are no hotels, shops, or resorts on the island; self-sufficient bush camping is the only option.
    Swimming on beaches is prohibited due to saltwater crocodiles."

    We moved on after this visit to Paronella Park.    Read more