This week, our Travel pics series is I for Innisfail. One of the problems of being a small town in the shadow of a larger, more famous regional centre is that you are .. well .. in the shadow. And Innisfail is in just that position. It’s a lovely town and it has a proud history…

“What do you mean this is the wrong Geraldton? The charts show this is Geraldton – what am I supposed to do with all this cargo?” In 1910, the town of Geraldton, in Queensland, changed its name to Innisfail – after a wayward cargo ship arrived carrying cargo for the port of Geraldton in Western…

This week, our Travel pics series is I for Innisfail. Innisfail’s a small township about an hour south of Cairns in Far North Queensland, which styles itself as “Australia’s Art Deco Capital”. In 1918, Innisfail was slammed by a cyclone that killed around a hundred people. So bad was the damage in Innisfail that fewer than…