Two hundred kilometres north of Townsville, TULLY lies to the left of the highway on Mount Tyson’s foothills, its 450-centimetre annual rainfall the highest in Australia. Settled by Chinese, who pioneered banana plantations here at the turn of the century, it’s nothing special today: cultivated lawns and flowerbeds back onto roaring jungle at the end of Brannigan Street, a constant reminder of the colonists’ struggle to keep chaos at bay. Instead of staying at Tully, most people drive the extra thirty minutes to spend a few days around Mission Beach, a peaceful stretch of beach and forest with access to Dunk Island.
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Area between Cairns and Townsville
Townsville Area (Tropical Coast)