KURANDA AND MAREEBA

We spent two nights at a bush park called...........

.

It was quiet and peaceful and Skin kept his eyes on a bush turkey

 

that he thought might gobble him up!

BUT............

We left the park today without a scratch.

Our first stop was at Jaques Coffee Plantation in Mareeba.

As we drove into the property, a whole line of termite mounds lined the driveway.

 

 

 

Skin tried to climb up one, but fell asleep before he could reach the top.

 

We began our tour on the bean machine bus.

The beans grow on bushes planted in rows.

A giant harvester picks the coffee berries when they are red.

This machine sorts the berries from the leaves . The silver prongs shake the berries off the branches.

Then the berries are washed and graded and the beans are released from inside the berry. These are the coffee beans which are then processed and roasted and packaged.

Here is Skin sitting in a collection of coffee packets...

AND.....drinking some coffee liquer......

 

Look  at his HUGE smile. He told me that he liked coffee, but when he took a taste, he had to spit it out!

I had to drink the rest for him!

What a silly banana!