Lucinda Jetty, Queensland

There is a long jetty at a small town on the east coast of Australia in Queensland, the town is called Lucinda.  Not a lot of people live there but it's a pleasant small town situated between Townsville to the north being a two hour drive, to the south Cairns being a three hour drive.

The Lucinda Jetty is still very much alive and in use as the world's longest bulk sugar loading facility, used for exporting raw sugar from the Lucinda Bulk Sugar Terminal to large ships.

You cannot walk the length of the jetty which is 5.76km long (3.58 miles long). 660 pylons curves the earths curvature. 

There is another jetty there a much smaller one where people can fish, catching Spanish mackerel, giant trevally, queenfish, northern bluefin, tuna, coral trout, big juicy mud crabs and barramundi.  

Sugar Cane growing.

The end of the jetty you can just see.

The beginning of the jetty and the bottom photo not far from the above photo.

Looking towards the beginning of the long jetty.

To Lucinda, Queensland

After one month of staying in the Cairns area we began our journey south on August 5, 2016 Australian Winter to a place called Lucinda which we had heard about but wanted to see for ourselves.

The area we were travelling was and is sugar country so Lucinda is home of Lucinda Bulk Sugar Terminal which was constructed in 1979 and is the longest service jetty in the southern hemisphere at 5.76 k (about 3 miles), long and supported by more than 660 concrete and steel pylons.  The jetty is an engineers masterpiece with it's length actually following the curvature of the earth.

The jetty enables Lucinda to handle large bulk sugar ships up to 50,000 tonnes.
There are approximately 20 ships that export sugar from Lucinda to various markets around the world.

On February 3, 2011 a Category 5 Cyclone Yasi crossed the Northern Queensland coast in the early hours of the morning, bringing measure peak wind gusts of 185km/hr at Lucinda.  At the height of the storm, waves  over the deck of the jetty destroying the shiploader along with the Lucinda Jetty Coastal Observatory (LJCO).  The LJCO was located at the end of the jetty and delivered valuable optical data regarding local coastal waters and atmospheric conditions.
The Lucinda Jetty sustained extensive damage from the cyclone, costing an estimated $50 million and re-opened after 18 months of repair.

The photo above it only a small part of the Jetty.

Lucinda is off the main highway, this photo taken as we travelled on the road to Lucinda and is of sugarcane growing.