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Title
Daintree Village Tourism Association - Daintree Accommodation, Tours And Daintree River Cruises - Daintree To Mossman
Description
Heading northwards from the laid-back little sugar town of Mossman, which is the commercial hub of the tourism and farming region between Port Douglas and Cape Tribulation, travellers find themselves passing through great stretches of sugar-cane farmland with, to the left, a backdrop of the magnificent rainforest-covered hills of the McDonnel Ranges of Daintree National Park.
June to November is cane-crushing season for the local sugar industry and it is when the area is a hive of industry with huge mechanical cane-harvesters at work in the cane-fields, road trailers and small railway locomotives hauling the cut cane. You may have to stop occasionally at one of the many rail crossings which criss-cross the roads while one of these trains, pulling many cane wagons, trundles its way to the Mossman Sugar Mill. Perhaps a good photo opportunity!
On the left-hand side of the main highway are several scenic side roads which meander through the cane-fields and farming land towards the coastal ranges. There is a small pioneering family cemetery on the right and on the left Syndicate Road leads inland through farming country - a turnoff to Finlayvale Road leads to one of the area's famous resorts.
