Babinda Township
Babinda owes its continued existence to the sugar industry. The milling process for sugar cane into sugar has been largely unchanged for 100 years and involves large, harsh corrugated iron structures like the one you see here. I remember a description I read once of England during the industrial revolution which referred to "Dark satanic mills vomiting blackness into the sky".
As it is the "slack" season, this one isn't vomiting anything just now, but you get the idea,
The Babinda Boulders
Less than 10 kilometres from the picture above is this beautiful swimming and recreation spot. Tranquil waters running cool and clear, straight from the mountains and fed by a yearly rainfall measured in metres not millimetres.
The young English girls who had stopped off on their tour of Australia by Kombi were enjoying themselves greatly but could not understand the warning in the next panel..
The sign on the right is deadly serious and the pathway to the viewing areas is sadly lined with commemorative plaques recording the many young lives from all around the planet (mostly young men showing off to young women) that have been lost here.
Often bodies are not recovered which makes the unfortunate event even harder on the grieving.
