Easter pictures

Swimming at the rocks

 A vintage car show

Eating 'fairy floss' (the Australian term)

Swimming at the lagoon 

With friends

Sugar

On Easter Monday we went with friends to a  water park called Sugar world.

Even for me, it's history is quite interesting. Sugar world is in a suburb of Cairns called Edmonton which is an old sugar milling town. The area where the park is, is called Hambledon  after the nearby Hambledon sugar plantation and mill. (I am getting to the interesting bit.) The area was identified by a biscuit manufacturer, Thomas Swallow, in 1880 as a suitable place to produce sugar. Thomas Swallow was born in Reading, England, near Hambledon. (for those of you who don't know, that's where I grew up).

Thomas Swallow

 The Hambledon plantation

Ruben next to the old cane train at the park