Day 54, Monday, March 6 , 2006 The Australian Sugar Industry Museum in Maurilyon preserves the history of the sugar cane industry in Queensland. This old locomotive is an early example of the narrow gauge sugar cane trains that still work the fields here. This unusual blue butterfly and a few of his friends enjoyed a walk on the parking lot in one of the Tablelands Viewpoints. This unique Curtain Fig Tree germinated years ago high in the branches of another tree, sending down these numerous roots to find the ground and water. The host tree has long since died and disintegrated leaving this unusual mass of roots possibly 50 feet high before the actual trunk starts. Tonight I dined on crocodile, it was mild, more dense than beef and not really a distinctive taste. Not bad but I probably wouldn’t try it again.
We noticed in the news today that the vicinity of Brisbane experienced a “non tropical cyclone” on the weekend, washing huge amounts of sand from the Gold and Sunshine Coasts into the sea. Work is underway to pump it back onto the beach. This likely explains some of the showery weather that we have had as we made our way north this week.
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