Reef Fleet Terminal
Departure terminal for reef boat trips, built on the site of a World War Two naval wharf.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Reef Fleet Terminal in Cairns traces the different jobs this stretch of Trinity Inlet has done across a century and a half: gathering beche-de-mer for Asian markets in the eighteen seventies, loading raw sugar for export, and standing guard as an Allied naval base during the Battle of the Coral Sea in nineteen forty-two. It asks what a working wharf actually looks like once the cargo ships and warships are gone. Listen for it while you wait for your own boat out to the reef.
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