Palm Cove News
Tropical North Queensland


SEPTEMBER 2006


Festivals : We have two on track

WE ARE presently having Festival Cairns which runs from August 26 to September 16 with a big program ending with fireworks on the Esplanade.
Four weeks after this event we will have Palm Cove Fiesta, October 13 to 15th.
Movies, great food, Tiger Moth aerobatics, music, world champion sand sculptor, and loads more will again grace our shores. Look for October edition for full details.
Spokesperson Colleen Were said the Palm Cove Fiesta is benefitting from a $18,000 investment under the Queensland Events Regional Program.
"We expect to top our 2005 effort," she said.

Palm Cove more upmarket than Port

PALM COVE is better than Port Douglas, says the boss of the company behind the Argentea development, Thakral.
"You have to drive an hour for something not as good," John Hudson told Business Week when announcing Thakral's record after-tax profit of $90 million.
Mr Hudson said he believed Palm Cove's Argentea was "a Mercedes, BMW, Lamborghini, and Rolls Royce rolled into one."
He said the project will soon have more display homes to suit a quality market. One award-winning display home is already for sale at $1.25m.
"Nothing we produce will be cheap," he said. "The land is too good for anything else."

(Ref : Cairns Post 23/8/06)

Letter to Editor

STATUE FOR BUCHAN POINT

THE statue of Lt Captain Cook in Sheridan St, a shabby-looking man now a home to mynah birds and pigeons and standing in the way of development, could well be cleaned and placed on top of Buchan Point with arm outstretched pointing to our little township of Palm Cove. As friendly locals we could welcome our many international visitors with it. The statue of Christ works well above Rio.
Your postie.

Stinger man misreported in press

Dr Jamie Seymour of JCU, Smithfield says he was misquoted recently regarding the use of hot or cold treatments for box jellyfish stings.
"Using heat treatment and ice packs is wrong for relieving the pain of box jellyfish and irukandji stings," he said in Cairns Post July 10.
"That is the treatment for bluebottle stings which should be treated by washing off the tentacles and then applying ice or cold packs."
He said box jellyfish and irukandji stings should be treated instead with vinegar before sending for medical assistance.
Vinegar when applied for at least 30 seconds stopped the box jellyfish's stinging capsules from injecting more venom into the victim. The tentacles should then be carefully removed. "Vinegar will not act to stop the pain," he said.
"If breathing or circulation is compromised, resuscitation should be commenced immediately and should not be abandoned outside hospital unless recovery occurs."

MARATHON SWIMMER

The box jellyfish has not only a lethal sting, it also has extraordinary stamina, says another JCU researcher. Using surgical glue to attach tiny ultrasonic transmitters to twelve box jellyfish sized 100cm across the bell, Matt Gordon tracked one individual covering more than seven kilometres over a 17-hour period near Weipa. "That's a marathon effort for the animal," he said. The study was part of ongoing research by a JCU team to help surf lifesavers prepare for the annual stinger season. "The tracking studies aim to reveal how jellyfish respond to different sea conditions," he said.
The stinger season runs from October to May.

BRIDGE PLAYERS WANTED

A weekly social game is being arranged for evening or weekend in Palm Cove. Experienced and less-experienced players all ok.
Call Jerry 4059 1610.

How to suss out planning developments

WANT to know what development approvals have been voted on by Cairns councillors; or what has been submitted for approval? Perhaps there is a vacant parcel of land that you have heard is going to be developed and you want confirmation?
Your editor has drawn up a one-page manual on how to find these things on the Internet.
Email info@palmcovenewsletter.com or phone 4059 1610 for a copy.

Editorial

NOT MUCH NEWS

THREE WEEKS on a Mediterranean cruise and home perusing three weeks of Cairns Post looking for news of Palm Cove. What a chore. And the result? Not much. You'll get a travel talk instead. The cruise was in all ways great. P. & O. knows how to keep 2000 passengers happy with 1200 staff attending. Off the boat for day coach tours to Venice, Athens, Istanbul, Naples, Rome, Florence, Marseilles, Barcelona - it was a cultural flood. The queue to see Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel ceiling was three blocks long, 90 minutes wait. Each day 25,000 people, they said. But it was the attraction of the unusual that hit us. We can understand why people come to Cairns. There is something here you can hardly experience anywhere else : the reef, the rainforests, the hillslopes, the sights, sounds, the people of Australia.
Perhaps we don't quite realize it : we have something unique here.

QUOTE

I think everybody has a right to happiness and freedom and security and health care and education and guitar lessons.
Bonnie Raitt, USA, Readers Digest, August.

Published by Jerry Dukes
52 Terebra St
Palm Cove 4879 QLD
Ph 4059 1610 Fax 4059 0058
Email : info@palmcovenewsletter.com
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