To improve your experience update it here. News National. Welcome to the wettest place in Australia. By 9NEWS. Tweet Facebook Mail. Far north Queensland is renowned for being the wettest region in Australia, but in the ultimate battle for rainfall supremacy only one place tops the list. Thanks once again to Europcar Australia for lending me the car to check Tully out! That wettest place in Australia that you mentioned — in millimetres its biggest yearly rain total was over 12, mm … truly insane!
Looking forward to reading more. Cheers, Danielle. Your email address will not be published. Skip to content. Be a share millionaire! Tell the world! It was not until , when the government decided to build a sugar mill in the area, that thesettlement began to grow. The mill was completed in the same year that the town was formally gazetted.
At the time it was the largest mill in Australia. Today, Tully is one of the main sugar-producing regions of Queensland with more than 22, ha of sugar cane extending from the Kennedy Valley in the south to Feluga in the north. The harvest season is usually from June to mid-November each year with approximately 1.
During this time the mill operates seven days a week, 24 hours a day, and employs close to full-time, and 80 additional seasonal staff. Another major industry in the district is bananas, with about ha of land in the area devoted to the crop. It is, in fact, the largest local, and regional, employer, with many seasonal positions filled by young people on working holidays, making it something of a working backpacker destination.
About 8. Tully Visitor and Heritage Centre The Visitor Centre, located on the Bruce Highway, has a display on the development of Tully and comprehensive information on the town and the entire region, tel: 07 Golden Gumboot In an attempt to draw visitors to the town, Tully has added its own icon to the list of Australia's 'Big Things. The idea for the giant gumboot relates to the fact that Tully and its regional neighbours, Babinda and Innisfail , occupy a strip of land which is considered the wettest in Australia and one of the wettest in the Southern Hemisphere.
These three towns kept a close eye each year on which of them received the highest rainfall, prompting ABC rural reporter, David Howard, in the mids, to suggest an annual media award for the 'winning' town, to be called the Golden Gumboot. Cheekily pre-empting the disputed title, Tully has, in typical Australian fashion, made a humorous monument of what some may consider one of its failings. In fairness, it does hold the record for the highest annual rainfall in a populated area of Australia, with 7.
It is no coincidence that this is the height of the gumboot, which features a mechanical rain gauge running from the heel to the lip of the boat.
Inside is a spiral staircase leading to a viewing platform which enables photography of the sugar mill.
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