Towns and cities often give themselves a descriptive moniker, for example Chicago-The windy City or New York-The Big Apple. I have to say, tully's is probably the least impresive, yet funny, name that i have ever come across: Tully-A Pretty Wet Place.
With a huge golden gumboot in the centre of town, a contriversal ploy to horde tourists into town you can see by the height of the boot just how much rainfall Tully received in the year 1950, 7.9m!
With an average drenching of 440 cm a year (14 feet) we were pretty surprised to have to seek the shade of trees to hide from the glaring sun as we passed through to collect fuel donations so we could get to Townsville.
There are a number of farms in this area including bananas and sugarcane.
A suger cane factory
The trains pulling a never ending number of carts filled with cane can be seen around town on the rail lines which zig zag across the roads.
A Cane Filled Train
Fuel is donated to us in Tully
Our brief stop in the wettest place in Australia was extremely dry.
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The first time that I visited the country with an Australian travel visa, we went to Townsville as request of the young ones as they like to see the home of the powerpuff girls. I know, kinda weird for me at first but its a cartoon show wherein the setting is in a town called Townsville as well. Anyhow, lucky there are a lot of great places to see in the city and it was all fun, although the kids
cried cause there weren't any signs of the powerpuff girls.
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