Touring the Tully Sugar Mill. Our village surroundings – sugar cane and rainforest mountains

Touring the Tully Sugar Mill

Our village surroundings – sugar cane and rainforest mountains

Grapefruit orchard outside our village

Sugar cane ready for harvest

Banana plantation near our village

Bob on our daily morning walk

The sugar harvest

Two houses we painted in the village

The community center in village of Kennedy

The house we shared with 4 others. We all slept on the floor.

In the rainforest with a “boomerang” tree

Bob in the rainforest on Dunk Island

View of mainland from Dunk Island

Birthday party for one of the volunteers

Under the “knowledge tree” in the village: clockwise Betsy, LeeEllen, Steve, Warren, Dena

l. to r.: Dave, Charmaine, Jane, Bob, Betsy, Nancy, Maxine

The local elementary school

The two-room school has 29 students in grades 1 through 7

Blencoe Falls, ancestral lands of the Girramay people

On a promontory before the falls

The fire pit for the Cuppamurri celebration

We cover the fire pit with sand to hold in steam and cook the kangaroo, pig, and chickens

Volunteers and aboriginal hosts

l. to r.: LeeEllen, Sandra (aka “Whitey”), Bob in Dave’s bush hat

Loving farewells: Betsy, Dena and Zoe