Anne Marie Black
Pharmacist, Cairns Hospital
"There are too many positive life changes since moving from the UK. We can pick up the kids and head straight to the beach every day".
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Location: 1,577km north of Brisbane, 180km south of Cairns, 210km north of Townsville
Tully is a sugar town located between Mount Mackay and Mount Tyson in Far North Queensland. Renowned as one of the wettest places in Australia, Tully is famous for its lush vegetation and white water rafting. Its main industries are sugar, bananas and tourism. Tully has access to several beaches, including the popular Mission Beach and rainforests. The town offers a quiet lifestyle with excellent outdoor activity opportunities.
The Tully Hospital is a 30 bed facility providing a number of services to the surrounding regions. Services include 24 hour accident and emergency, outpatients, medical services, pharmacy, acute care services, physiotherapy, chronic disease management, radiography, palliative care, women's health, low risk obstetrics, speech pathology, social work, occupational therapy, oral health, community health, mental health, drug and alcohol services, diabetes education and a visiting specialist physician as well as outreach obstetrics and gynaecology services.
Tully is a small but busy rural centre and has access to all of the major services including banks, education facilities, telecommunications, as well as restaurants and shops filled with local produce. Tully has plenty of scenic areas to visit within a short distance from town such as the seaside village of Mission Beach, a popular destination for locals and tourists with its pristine beaches, rainforest walking tracks, and great fishing. A visit to Murray Falls is a good way to cool off during the hot and humid summer months – there are waterfalls, swimming holes, and picnic and BBQ facilities.
Tully is one of 3 towns in Queensland competing in the Golden Gumboot competition to take out the title of Australia’s wettest town. Although Babinda has claimed the honour for the last 7 years, Tully has come a close second with an average annual rainfall of over 4,000mm. Despite coming in second, Tully embraces its wet weather with its surrounding dense rainforests, waterfalls and a monument, the Big Gumboot. The boot is a 7.9 metre fibreglass effigy marking Tully’s record annual rainfall of 7,900mm in 1950. Inside the giant boot is a spiral staircase leading to a viewing platform and a view of the Tully township.
The Golden Gumboot Festival is yearly sunshine to an otherwise damp place. Held in May every year, The Golden Gumboot Festival is a family oriented festival which features a float parade, children’s activities, live local entertainment, food and market stalls, displays, and main attraction the ‘Gumboot Games’. The festival is Tully’s major annual festival and each year the proceeds from the day go back to the community.
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