Mareeba is a lovely town, around an hour inland from Cairns. Central to so many lovely towns and scenic places. We spent our first day, battling the heat setting up camp. 26c beautiful. We visited a number of local touristy things including a great museum at the info centre. Spent ages there. Picnic in the park, followed by a visit to Coffee Works. This place has over 27 coffee blends for you to try plus oodles of chocolate samples. You pay an entrance fee, get a cup and then just load yourself up with all or any of the coffees you want to sample. Drink as much as you want. They also do teas as well. All blended by the Company. You can also taste as much coffee liqueurs as you want. Didnt like any of the coffees I tried incl fancy ones like Irish Cream/ Chocolate Or Hazlenut etc. Loved all three of the coffee liqueurs. At $45 a bottle they werent that spectacular though. You can sample as much chocolate as you want. I DID of course. I cant remember how many different ones were on offer but I will guess around 20 or so. I overloaded on it. There is also a coffee museum here and beleive me its amazing. Over 2000 exhibits We spent almost two hours in this place. So worth a visit even if you arent a coffee drinker.
In this area they grow Coffee, Tea, Cocoa, Sugar, Mangoes, Avocados, Lychees to name a few. This was a huge Tobacco Farm area back in its heyday. Of course, the trade in tobacco has disappeared now, the farmers worked damn hard, made good money, but when tobacco lost its popularity, the farms simply closed up.
We are here at the Mareeba Rodeo grounds for the rodeo coming to town this weekend. At the same time they are setting up the Mareeba Show here as well. Semi trailers full of daredevil rides are coming in, showbag and amusement alley being set up, food stalls, show arenas etc. There are probably 2000 motorhomes and caravans here at the moment, Wednesday and more arriving constantly. Going to be a big weekend. They also have an area fenced off for family camping and another called "Feral Hill". No need to explain who will be camped there this weekend. Thankfully we are far away from those areas. Some of the rides are right next to caravans and motorhomes so its going to be an interesting time for them.
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