Rainforestation Nature Park
Rainforest wildlife park with army-duck tours, koalas and an Aboriginal cultural amphitheatre.
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This guide to Rainforestation Nature Park in Kuranda, near Cairns, follows two threads across its hundred acres: a couple who turned a failing orange orchard into a tourist stop built on surplus World War Two amphibious army trucks, and a local Aboriginal man named Boonga, or Jimmy Edwards, who once filled a gap between duck tours with a boomerang. You'll hear how both the Woodwards' gamble and Boonga's act became fixtures of the park decades on. Best paired with a ride on the ducks themselves.
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