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Location Date New South Wales 1346454000 Queensland 
1346367600 Victoria 1180825200 Northern Territory 1180479600 South Australia 1179097200 -
Location Date Mundubbera 1346367600 Airlie Beach 1345676400 Ayr 1345590000 Cooktown 1344726000 Cairns 1343775600 Cardwell
1343689200 Townsville 1342479600 Capella 1342134000 Emerald 1342134000 Roma 1341961200 St George 1341874800 Taroom 1183071600 Goondiwindi 1183071600 Rockhampton 1182898800 Sarina 1182812400 Rollingstone 1181084400 Charters Towers 1180998000 Mount Isa 1180566000 -
Location Date Tue, 21 August 2012 1345578720 Tue, 21 August 2012
1345557540 Tue, 31 July 2012 1343766900 Tue, 31 July 2012 1343741880
Day 51
Kilometres travelled........194
The trip down from Cairns was a little wet with a few misty showers. We stopped in Cardwell and took a walk along the waterfront to survey the cyclone damage before heading to our friends Ralph & Lee's home at Port Hinchinbrook. Lee cooked a wonderful dinner, and the evening was very enjoyable.
As with our earlier trip we set the van up on a vacant block next door, and Ralph attached a lead for power to our van and also connected water.
Located two hours by road from either Townsville or Cairns, the Port Hinchinbrook area is a premier tourist destination offering a tropical escape with access to the surrounding national parks and two of the world's best fishing areas - the Hinchinbrook Channel and Barrier Reef.
With Hinchinbrook Island at their door step and the Cardwell mountains as the backdrop, lush rainforests surrounding the area provide seclusion in a private sanctuary.
The local climate is tropical, warm to mildly cool and dry during the winter months. The summer monsoon wet is warm to hot and humid, coinciding with the tropical cyclone season. The island has no reefs in the waters surrounding it, most likely due to fresh water runoff from the island.
In 1770 James Cook on HMS Endeavour sailed past at some distance east of Hinchinbrook Island. The Island was named on the 19 May 1819 by Lieutenant Phillip Parker King, he was a naval officer, hydrographer and company manager who explored the north eastern coast of Australia on the HM Colonial Cutter Mermaid.
In the following decades Europeans settled on Hinchinbrook Island. Their main activities were fishing, farming and mining. In 1932 Hinchinbrook Island was declared a national park. In 1942, a US B4 Liberator bomber crashed into a mountain on the island, killing all 12 people on board. After World War II, commercial crocodile hunting in the area nearly reduced numbers to the point of extinction by the 1960s. The 2008 movie Nim's Island was partly filmed on the island.
In 2011, the shipwreck of a 30 metre boat was discovered on the shores of Ramsay Bay by a fisherman. It is thought that the wreck is about 130 years old and was uncovered by Cyclone Yasi.
Hinchinbrook Island is described as a "wilderness area," wild and rugged with soaring mountainous peaks. It’s highest mountain is Mount Bowen, at a height of 1121 metres.
Kilometres travelled........194
The trip down from Cairns was a little wet with a few misty showers. We stopped in Cardwell and took a walk along the waterfront to survey the cyclone damage before heading to our friends Ralph & Lee's home at Port Hinchinbrook. Lee cooked a wonderful dinner, and the evening was very enjoyable.
As with our earlier trip we set the van up on a vacant block next door, and Ralph attached a lead for power to our van and also connected water.
Located two hours by road from either Townsville or Cairns, the Port Hinchinbrook area is a premier tourist destination offering a tropical escape with access to the surrounding national parks and two of the world's best fishing areas - the Hinchinbrook Channel and Barrier Reef.
With Hinchinbrook Island at their door step and the Cardwell mountains as the backdrop, lush rainforests surrounding the area provide seclusion in a private sanctuary.
The local climate is tropical, warm to mildly cool and dry during the winter months. The summer monsoon wet is warm to hot and humid, coinciding with the tropical cyclone season. The island has no reefs in the waters surrounding it, most likely due to fresh water runoff from the island.
In 1770 James Cook on HMS Endeavour sailed past at some distance east of Hinchinbrook Island. The Island was named on the 19 May 1819 by Lieutenant Phillip Parker King, he was a naval officer, hydrographer and company manager who explored the north eastern coast of Australia on the HM Colonial Cutter Mermaid.
In the following decades Europeans settled on Hinchinbrook Island. Their main activities were fishing, farming and mining. In 1932 Hinchinbrook Island was declared a national park. In 1942, a US B4 Liberator bomber crashed into a mountain on the island, killing all 12 people on board. After World War II, commercial crocodile hunting in the area nearly reduced numbers to the point of extinction by the 1960s. The 2008 movie Nim's Island was partly filmed on the island.
In 2011, the shipwreck of a 30 metre boat was discovered on the shores of Ramsay Bay by a fisherman. It is thought that the wreck is about 130 years old and was uncovered by Cyclone Yasi.
Hinchinbrook Island is described as a "wilderness area," wild and rugged with soaring mountainous peaks. It’s highest mountain is Mount Bowen, at a height of 1121 metres.
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