Innisfail

Innisfail was hit by category 5 cyclone Larry in March 2006. The town took the full brunt of it and the damage was huge. It also took out most of the banana plantations which is why the price of bananas in Australia is astronomical. They are now beginning to recover but there are still plenty of buildings that are still waiting to be repaired. It didn’t help that for four months after the cyclone it rained making the damage worse and rebuilding difficult. The good thing though was that nobody was killed. We walked the heritage trail round town and the then and now pictures say it all. We also visited Flying fish point, Josephine falls, Etty Bay and Mourilyan harbour and we got to see a cassowary in the wild.