Cairns 2016

[Kennybenjamin]

Great thread / pics Paully!!! I was there but was a bit pre occupied. It's like I'm reliving it again.

The time you have taken to take the photos and post them for the PT community is significant and you deserve full credit for that!!!! The pics are fantastic.... This should keep Ed busy for a while! 

I look forward to the rest of them..... We are about halfway I believe 

[tropicbreeze]

Typical Qld: wet one day, raining the next! I'm brown with envy (nothing green around here this time of year!).

[George Sparkman]

This thread is absolutely epic !

[comic097]

Yep were half way thru Kenny, soooo many more pics, I'll get a few more up this Arvo 

[Richie]

Great thread Paul , a lot of great palms going in at Miccles , and Harry's  place looks great , love the fat Carlsmithii .  Haven't been to Jan's yet , so definitely on the list to see , Mark's place is always impressive and a he's a top bloke . Can't wait to see the rest and was great to see you , Ben and Roger up this way .

[Cindy Adair]

Alright, Cairns just got moved higher on my list of must see locales!

Wonderful palm photos!

Fantastic gardens!

Thanks so much!

[Ben in Norcal]

I wish I was in to palms when I went to Cairns.  I spent my whole time diving (not bad either!)

[comic097]

After Harry's, it was time to start heading down the coast line, our next stop and home for night was Mission Beach, I love it. Just on the fringe of Mission Beach is Heinz he has a nursery and we always drop in to see whats new and say G'day. 

Heinz has an awsom dypsis leucomalla

Ben and Heinz 

Next stop the caravan park, that's Dunk Island, the view from the caravan park 

Next point of call after checking in was to grab our loot and water them

Once we settled in, it was time to make executive decisions about dinner 

Im an early riser so decided i wanted to be down the beach when the sun rose

Now you can see why I love the place

 

 

 

 

[comic097]

Well we stayed in Mission beach till mid morning then it was time to hit the road, Townsville was another 3 hrs down the road, Finally we'd arrived, another day another caravan park, tomorrow was gonna be a big day ...

Chicken for dinner 

then back to the shops an hour later for desert 

 

 

[Hilo Jason]

This thread is incredible!!  Wow!!  I can't get enough and like Cindy said, Cairns is now on my list of places to go soon!  Epic!!

[comic097]

Hello Townsville

Apologies in advance, due to the amount of pics Im posting im not gonna label them, if you have any queries on palm IDs just post on here and ill be happy to help 

Ben for scale with a very nice Cab x Lepto

No signs of any flying fox, hopefully this fenced off section will be opened soon 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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[Pando]

S T U N N I N G !!!

[Dave-Vero]

I've got the airline miles, and have been a bit uncertain of where to make a first visit (of what I hope will be several) to Australia.  Notwithstanding that I have excuses to visit Costa Rica (the revived Wilson Botanical Garden), Miami (overdue for Fairchild and Montgomery), San Diego (the Center for Plant Conservation moved to the Zoo), Cairns looks even better than I'd supposed.  

I'm envious of a huge Dypsis carlsmithii in the photo collection.  Mine's been in the ground for a decade, and has yet to develop a trunk.  On the other hand, it has that tidy habit of carrying its leaves fairly upright, and they're long, so it makes an impressive specimen even without the trunk.

Nowhere in Florida could a lipstick palm be outdoors at the airport.  Even in Miami, there's a need for quick protection on rare, bad nights.  

[Kennybenjamin]

Don't forget the Tahina in Townsville.... Good size on it!

[Monòver]

Wow!!!!

I want more pictures!!!

[comic097]

 

 

 

[comic097]

Well that's it for the Townsville palmetum,next stop the Townsville strand then queens gardens in Townsville

[comic097]

So this is "the strand" in Townsville, down on the water front, plenty of bars and restaurants, i parked down the road, I figured we had already had plenty of looks from of our vehicle 

Magnetic Island in the background

speaking of our ride

We've arrived at Queens Gardens

 

[Mohsen]

The thread of the year so far ...well dome mates  

I should seriously considering reallocating from Sydney to Cairns...searching the Realestate app right now  

[comic097]

 

nice looking Lemur

and yep shes one big Tahina

just after lunch time when we finshed with Queens garden, next stop airlie beach, a good 3hr drive according to google, i do remember it being a very nice drive, once there were going to see Richies place 

 

 

 

[comic097]

3hrs later and were coming into Airlie beach

 

Right onto Richies

So Richies place was a treat, we had met Richie last year up in Townsville for the Aussie palmtalkers day out, so it made sense to see his garden this year. Richies mum is a very keen palm grower and has done a magnificent job with how the garden has evolved into today, Richie certainly has the bug and is following in the steps of his mum. So here we go ...

Front entrance 

Richie's mum got the seed of this baileyana and planted it 35 years ago, tough grower, it got run over by a lawn mower and has grown to perfection 

Im a sucker for colour

Rogers neck has a massive kink forming due to this trip 

Well there you have it, very very impressive, Richie thanks for having us around mate, if your ever down in our part of the world mate, look us up, they ll be a beer waiting 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Kennybenjamin]

Sorry paul, I jumped the gun on the tahina..... I'll just stay quiet till you have finished this mega thread. 

[comic097]

Hahahaha all good mate, its worth jumping for, 3 more gardens folks and a quick look around Airlie beach and that will conclude our Cairns trip for 2016.Ill post again tomorrow

[User00]

waiting for more

[TikiRick]

Holy crap Aussies!!! 

You boys know how to PRA for sure! I've visited Cairns and I'd move there in a second, for obvious reasons. I saw the lipstick palm used as a hedge, and I was sold.

Tropical, diving, and palm kingdom! Thank you for all your time to post. Every garden, private and public, are amazing! Things we could never grow, even here in Florida. 

Cheers mates! 

[BS Man about Palms]

OY! I'm blue with envy!!

Beautiful pics, trip and EPIC PRA!!!

[cassowaryhill]

On 29/07/2016, 5:43:43, comic097 said:

First stop our mate Michaels ( miccles ) house, Big Foxy lady being positioned into place. 

109 palms got planted over a 24 hour period

The following morning we went down to the local beach for a coffee

 

 

LOOOOVING THOSE Foxy Ladies.. And the mini Licuala ramsayi's !!

 

[cassowaryhill]

On 30/07/2016, 2:12:19, comic097 said:

What is this guys?

AMAZING PALMS!! CANT WAIT FOR THE WHITSUNDAYS!!

 

 

 

 

[comic097]

Not sure Shane, but can find out mate

[cassowaryhill]

4 minutes ago, comic097 said:

Not sure Shane, but can find out mate

Cheers mate 

 

4 minutes ago, comic097 said:

Not sure Shane, but can find out mate

 

[comic097]

Well that was a very big day, gardens in Townsville then the drive down to Airlie Beach and finishing up at Richie's, it was time for a beer and a feed at the local pub, tomorrow was gonna be a huge day.

A new town a new caravan park

My pinangas go every where I go 

The next morning I thought the world was ending, we were being invaded

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Pedro 65]

"Awesome" Bailey Richie , gardens are lookn  , well captured Paul, really shows its size.    Pete  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

                                                                                                    

[comic097]

Right next stop George and Janes place, for those who remember Wal did a thread a while back of Georges place

http://www.palmtalk.org/forum/index.php?/topic/42796-jungle-garden-visit-airlie-beach-area/  

Ok so we ended up leaving the caravan park and heading round to Richie's place to pick him up and head on over to Georges where we would also meet up with Andrew ( tropicgardener ) again apologies in advance for no IDs on the palms, so many pics to post 

 

 

 

 

[comic097]

George and Janes house is insane as you will soon see

 

 

 

 

 

 

[comic097]

 

Well thats it for George and Janes place, a real pleasure to have visited there place, many thanks again George and Jane.

[Pedro 65]

Delicious Disticha   Pete

 

 

 

                                                                                                       

 

[Neil C]

The view from that deck is something else. What a great place to kick back.

 

Regards Neil

[Sir Oxylon]

Sensational. Going to take me a month to process and work out everything in your pics. Some real nice palms not labelled in this thread. Some pretty nice loot too. I second the awesome distichas and baileyana.