Today we left Mareeba, 'Where the Rainforest Meets the Outback', and Australia's Coffee Capital, producing over 90% of Australia's total crop. Other crops grown in this area are 'Skin's relatives,' mangoes, lychees, paw paws, exotic tropical fruits,, watermelons and peanuts.
We stopped at a Distillery where they not only make liqueurs out of fruit and coffee, but also grow BIG BANANAS.
Here is a plantation full of Skin's relatives.
The bananas are picked when green and hung by their huge stalks on hooks and travel around on a circle to be picked by 'Skin pickers' at the end of the line.
Can you see Skin with his cousins?
HERE IS A CLOSER SHOT....
After they are picked, the bananas are washed...
And then put into boxes to be transported to shops just like this one....
The bananas turn yellow during their journey because they are so excited to be nomads!
This area also grows peanuts and there are hundreds to sit on, or try!
Skin met Paul Peanut at the Peanut Place.....
What a GREAT DAY WE HAD!!!!
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