Join us this week as we explore the old Quarantine station and battlements area at Cape Palarenda. We live it up at the marina at the monthly curry night, sh...

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last time you with us we visited the

stunning Waldman Falls then got stuck

into boat projects completely renovating

our water tanks it was Darren's birthday

and he wanted to go out exploring so we

decided to check out the quarantine

station which was built back in 1915 as

a result of population increase in

northern Australia due to the discovery

of gold in 1851 approximately 15,000

diggers arrived into the area this along

with increased trade by sea resulted in

the need for quarantine to halt the

spread of disease it's the biggest Food

Steamer you've ever seen it probably

been about six people in there maybe

it's a sweetie sauna co-located at the

Cape pallor International Park the

quarantine station is now Heritage

listed with the remaining buildings open

to public

it was interesting looking at the

medical relics used back in the day some

of the equipment looked quite

rudimentary and makes us thankful of

more modern day appliances

so this is pretty interesting this is

the quarantine area so when you came up

one of the ships back in the 1900 you

had to basically come through this

quarantine area before you could be

allowed onto land and it's got a bunch

of outbuildings where you got to stay

but first of all you had to come in here

through and the other side of the room

you had to have a shower or a bath stop

all your clothes and all your belongings

got put into this and what that says as

a giant steam get it and so all your

belongings get put inside and this

massive there's two massive doors that

get clamped shut here and then they

build up the heat with all the gauges

get everything boiling and get it

steaming and really hot and hopefully

boil out will steam out any diseases

that you might have brought with you

from your ship from whichever country

you came from so yeah pretty cool and I

was reading that a few um heads if you

came and you were sick or you had a

fever or whatever you had 45 days you

had to stay in this camp so this was a

little quarantine hunt where they used

to put you and used to have to sit here

until you got the get-out-of-jail-free

card

in the hills surrounding the station you

will find several strategically placed

gun emplacements and searchlight towers

that hit both Australian and American

personnel in World War 2 here you can

see the dug out pits and concrete

bunkers which helped various machine

guns and heavy armament soldiers would

run ammunitions to and from the

emplacements with runners keeping fit

delivering important messages along the

tracks

imagine yourself flying overhead this

would have been the view from an

attacking plane

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we hid inside one of the bunkers to see

what conditions might have been like

back in the day

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we're section of the time chocolate

his ranch

and bear to break away by rock

and other places that I can't read yes

let's go to around us in the barracks

and my sister

grandfather

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beautiful

magnificent

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okay shush we're storming the place we

stowing the place

well there is a little hive of

industriousness going on in the marina

this afternoon and when you walk down

the jetties there's lots of flavors and

smells coming out from people's boats

because tonight is the monthly cook-off

challenge which is awesome and tonight

is create your favorite curry so the

best curry wins and I have been making a

super special beetroot and kumrah curry

beetroot and kuma muscle man if you must

know come and have a look

I reckon I'm on a winner look at this

delicious flavors beautiful coriander

and cumin

it looks so sweet and luscious doesn't

it

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is my gift to the group tonight sir came

up well we didn't that Oh beauty beauty

beauty well I know it's really fun about

this fun situated directly on the

foreshore in Townsville breakwater

marina has a focus on making all

visitors feel like family the facilities

are top-notch and they host monthly

gatherings which make you feel like

you're at home

this was a pretty cool night with

Curry's coming from staff long-term

tenants and visiting yachties well I

didn't win the curry competition well

technically there wasn't an actual

competition in the end because one of

the employees is actually a chef and he

keeps winning with his goat curry so

unbeknownst to me in all my excitement

that actually called the actual Kerry

competition off but I reckon I had a win

because my bowl of curry was empty first

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anyway we're gonna go up they've got a

beautiful community garden here and

we're gonna go up and plant these spring

onions and let them grow for someone

else

next time the community garden is well

stocked with herbs and tomatoes even a

passion fruit vine and guests are

encouraged to plant and share their

crops okay we thought which shows

somebody asked about how we get in and

out of the marina and I just thought I'd

show you that because therians brought

in the right hand turn when she goes and

reversed she pivots to port which a lot

of vessels do do just sterian just keeps

going around a stick ha ha ha

she doesn't still roll in Reverse anyway

we've got a little trick we're currently

in a blonde bird which means the wind is

pushing us on to the bird and although

there's not very much when today we just

thought we'd show you how we put it

hurry up

so Darrin's just sitting up the line

here you see Darin adjusting the lines

then feeding the bitter end up to me on

the deck so that I can clean it off with

that bitter end tied off and the loop

fed down and around the dock cleat and

back up to the anchor winch we're ready

to go

as Darin reverses the boat will start

pivoting around and I will adjust the

line a few times to ensure the bow stays

clear of the dock then simply release

the line and pull it free of the cleat

at the dock after three months in the

marina we were feeling much more

energized and it felt great to be back

on the water again with the breeze on

our faces we lapped it up on our cell to

horseshoe bay

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magnetic island makes a top Anchorage

with it's stunning headlands

semi-tropical bushland

and many bays providing a variety of

all-weather Anchorage's today we're

heading over to beautiful Radical Bay

it wasn't day today we are very excited

we're going off for a coconut hunting

afternoon with Troy and Pascal who are

fellow youtubers and absolutely

delightful people we've been really

looking forward to meeting them and they

just come down from Cairns and we're

going in opposite directions but we're

having a day of plays so yay let's go

and see what we can find we've got the

coconut picking tool out see if we can

get an afternoon speed yeah baby

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that I've heard of in chat

hopefully these guys are going to catch

some fish that'll be good

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the meds quickly got into the groove

with Troy up one tree and Darren using

and coconut become told on another works

pretty good yep

donated by an old friend of mine SV

Canada goose retired Sparky

converted yachty yep and now he's

retired from silence oh he's passed it

on dude it's a good gift a good gift a

handy gift and it works pretty good yeah

that's a great idea we had a good hole

and spent the afternoon nattering and

feasting on the beach not busy it's just

all not new awesome okay cool what a

great morning

down my back

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