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A rivalry exists between Tully and the nearby town of Babinda for that title. Although Tully's average rainfall is less than that of Babinda, [14] a giant gumboot, the "Golden Gumboot", was erected in Tully in 2003, as a monument to the town's high rainfall. It also serves as a museum, documenting past floods, as well as displaying the rainfall ...
Babinda is a rural town and locality in the Cairns Region, Queensland, Australia. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Babinda and Tully annually compete for the Golden Gumboot , an award for Australia's wettest town. Babinda is usually the winner, recording an annual average rainfall of over 4,279.4 millimetres (168.48 in) each year. [ 4 ]
Babinda Boulders, officially called the Boulders Scenic Reserve [1] but known locally as Babinda Boulders or simply the Boulders, is a public recreation reserve alongside Babinda Creek, managed by the Cairns Regional Council and adjacent to the Wooroonooran National Park in far north Queensland, Australia.
The view of Tully Sugar Mill from the top of the Golden Gumboot. The Golden Gumboot is a competition between the Far North Queensland towns of Tully, Innisfail, and Babinda in Australia for the wettest town of Australia. These towns are located in the Wet Tropics and on land that was previously covered by rainforest.
Bruce Highway near Tully, 2016 With the completion of Section C of the Bruce Highway – Cooroy to Curra upgrade project (Traveston to Woondum ) in February 2018 [ 15 ] the M1 has now been extended to Kybong , 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) south of Gympie .
Tully Training Area is approximately 13,300 hectares (33,000 acres). It is 11 kilometres (6.8 mi) north-west of Tully. [1]The Tully Military Training Area (TTA) is part of the Wet Tropics biogeographic region, which runs along the coast from the Cedar Bay/Daintree region in the north to just short of Townsville in the south, and includes the elevated Atherton plateau.
Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap. ... Lower Tully State School: Lower Tully: Cassowary Coast: 1932 ... Babinda: Cairns: 1914–1969
Towns within its boundaries include Atherton, Innisfail, Tully, Babinda and Mission Beach. [1] It was created largely out of the northern portion of the abolished seat of Dalrymple. From results of the 2015 election, Hill was estimated to be a marginal seat for Katter's Australian Party with a margin of 4.9%. [2]