NA ="Japoon, Silkwood, Kurrimine, Gardners Beach, El Arish, Mission Beach, Wongaling Beach, Tully, Hull Heads,";
FE1[0]=" A picturesque 1.5 hours drive south from Cairns and 2.5 hours north from Townsville through rich cane fields, banana plantations and historic towns, Mission Beach is a unique and unspoilt haven. Mission Beach is secluded, yet it i";
FE2[0]="s also the perfect base to explore the other wonders of the region; the Great Barrier Reef, Hinchinbrook Island, Dunk Island, Paronella Park at Mena Creek, Atherton Tablelands, Cairns, World Heritage Wet Tropic Rainforest and the ";
FE3[0]="Gulf Savannah. Its name originating from the Aboriginal Mission founded at South Mission Beach in the early 1900's. Bingil Bay, Mission Beach, Wongaling Beach and South Mission Beach al having their own unique entity for forming t";
FE4[0]="he perfect holiday. The township is surrounded by National Parks, World Heritage Rainforest, Tropical Islands and is one of the closest points to the Great Barrier Reef (one of the Seven Wonders of the World). Murdering Point Wine";
FE5[0]="ry cellar door opened 10th November 2003.  In this time, Murdering Point Winery has won 6 medals for their distinctly unique wines and were announced the North Queensland 2004 New Tourism Development. Paradise Wines is Australia's";
FE6[0]=" first and largest winery to specialise in gourmet banana wine.  A wine that stands alone in its uniqueness. Mary Lankester, Rural Woman of the Year, founded Paradise Wines Pty Ltd in 2000. The family owned Company has researched ";
FE7[0]="and developed a range of gourmet tropical wines utilising exotic fruits grown in the pristine environment of tropical North Queensland Australia.";
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LA1[0]=" The Tully-Murray catchment includes the drainage areas of the Tully and Murray Rivers and covers an area of 2 825 km2. Both of these major rivers, and many of their associated tributaries, rise in the Cardwell Range in the west wi";
LA2[0]="th an elevation of over 1000 metres and drain into the Great Barrier Reef lagoon. These rivers and streams have relatively short lengths, both approximately 90 kms as they move across a narrow fertile floodplain once covered in a ";
LA3[0]="mosaic of lush forest communities but today vastly modified through clearing and agriculture.     ";
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CL1[0]=" The Climate in Mission Beach is tropical, with a warm, wet monsoon season traditionally starting in December/January and finishing around April. Experience the excitement of magnificent thunder and lightening storms, torrential do";
CL2[0]="wnpours only seen in the tropics, the wildlife, birdlife, frogs, experience the rainforest in its prime. One of the ideal times to visit Mission Beach, for a much needed relax and an experience you can only get in the Monsoonal Se";
CL3[0]="ason. Marine stingers are prevalent in tropical waters generally from November to May, swim in the enclosures on the beaches at South Mission and Mission Beach or swim in the many cool freshwater streams. In May the famous 'Big Bl";
CL4[0]="ue Ulysses and Giant Green Birdwing' butterflies hatch, in preparation for the magnificent months of July to December, crisp clear days with perfect balmy temperatures and cool nights. The annual rainfall of the Tully/ Murray catc";
CL5[0]="hment is between 2,600mm and 4,000mm with approximately 85% of that falling during the wet season of December and May. This high rainfall means an annual discharge in the order of 3,000,000ML putting it into the category of highes";
CL6[0]="t discharge per unit area catchments in Australia . This high rainfall and discharge combined with steep longitudinal profile and small capacity river channels result in frequent seasonal over-bank river flooding.";
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HI1[0]=" After the timber cutters came to the area over a century ago, farmers who introduced, amongst others, coffee, tea, bamboo, and mango plantations moved the area forward. The remnants can still be seen today. The difficulty in shipp";
HI2[0]="ing produce to markets, combined with a devastating cyclone in 1918, led to a general demise in farming until a road to the area was built in 1936. The fate of the indigenous Aboriginal inhabitants was similarly afflicted. Initial";
HI3[0]="ly they were used as a cheap labour source by the white farmers but as they later came to prefer working for Chinese employers, who would often pay in opium, they came to be resented by the white settlers. This led to the establis";
HI4[0]="hment of the Hull River Mission in 1914 (from where Mission Beach derives its name) which was destroyed by the 1918 cyclone. Murdering Point Winery specialises in the production of Australian tropical and native fruit wines.  The ";
HI5[0]="cellar door opened 10th November 2003.  In this time, Murdering Point Winery has won 6 medals for their distinctly unique wines and were announced the North Queensland 2004 New Tourism Development.  Visitors can enjoy the delightf";
HI6[0]="ul flavours of Australia's tropical and native fruits while watching the workings of a North Queensland sugar cane farm. Paradise Wines is Australia's first and largest winery to specialise in gourmet banana wine.  A wine that sta";
HI7[0]="nds alone in its uniqueness. Mary Lankester, Rural Woman of the Year, founded Paradise Wines Pty Ltd in 2000. The family owned Company has researched and developed a range of gourmet tropical wines utilising exotic fruits grown in";
HI8[0]=" the pristine enviroment of tropical North Queensland Australia.";
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