MISSED TOURISM CHANCE
ON Wednesday afternoon the rain and low cloud had cleared to reveal the awesome splendour of Barron Falls in full flood.
If you are a visitor wanting to escape your hotel room after the tropical deluge, how do you get to see this most spectacular waterfall?
Unless you have a rental car (in short supply), the most popular choices are not operating.
Skyrail was closed until Thursday and the Scenic Train can’t travel to Kuranda before Saturday, dependent on Queensland Rail declaring the track “safe”. Surely these two key Cairns tourist operations could be more flexible to allow our highly valued visitors to see our natural attractions at their very best.
Bob Brooks, Gordonvale
1014
In the Battle of Clontarf, the forces of Ireland’s high king Brian Boru rout the Viking invaders near Dublin. But the old king is killed. 1788
Governor Arthur Phillip and a small party explore bushland which will later be settled and grow to become Parramatta.
1850
Romantic poet William Wordsworth dies aged 80 in his country home in the town of Rydal, Westmoreland in England. 1873
Surveyor William Gosse and eight others leave Alice Springs, hoping to travel west to Perth. Instead, they will find Uluru (Ayers Rock). 1945
Field Marshal Herman Goering sends a telegram to Adolf Hitler, besieged in Berlin, proposing he take control of Germany as Hitler’s deputy. Hitler orders his immediate arrest.
1985
The Coca-Cola Co replaces its traditional secret recipe with New Coke. The company will revert to the original recipe after sales decline.
1996
Pamela Lyndon Travers, original name Helen Lyndon Goff, Australian-born English writer known for her Mary Poppins books, dies in London at 96.
2007
Former Russian President Boris Yeltsin dies at the age of 76 2018
A driver rams people on a street in Toronto killing 10 and seriously injuring 16. His alleged motive was to try to provoke a police officer into killing him.
2020
After a troubled tenure starting in 2017, the head of Rugby Australia, Raelene Castle, resigns after the board announces it no longer has confidence in her.