Trinity Inlet

[ShayPlan]

Quick Q about why was over 700 hectares of mangroves drained in east Trinity? There is development proposals on the east bank? Is there?

Plus anyone have aerial photos of Trinity Bay , besides the ones on this forum?

[Danubis]

is trinity in townsville?

[ShayPlan]

is trinity in townsville?

you're supposed to know, yo'll the qlder!! No , trinity bay ,cairns

[Gertzy]

No Danubis, It's not in Townsville. Here's a pic of the Cairns CBD at the mouth of the inlet (Bottom Right area)

http://www.twhedley.com.au/jacknewell2.jpg

[ShayPlan]

No Danubis, It's not in Townsville. Here's a pic of the Cairns CBD at the mouth of the inlet (Bottom Right area)

http://www.twhedley.com.au/jacknewell2.jpg

Isn't that photo old, like early 1990s, or is that how Cairns looks these days?

[Gertzy]

That was taken late last year or early this year.

[Gertzy]

Here's a pic of Trinity Inlet from The Harbour Lights Site area.

http://www.prd.com.au/features/hlnq/041008125520View%20South%20Down%20Trinity%20Inlet.JPG:) Enjoy

[Jesse24]

Quick Q about why was over 700 hectares of mangroves drained in east Trinity? There is development proposals on the east bank? Is there?

Plus anyone have aerial photos of Trinity Bay , besides the ones on this forum?

Yes I may as well answer this year old question:nuts:

East Trinity was drained and removed because they wanted to create a new suburb of Cairns on it. About a year ago Warren Entsch was still trying to hold on to the land most probably for development but Desley Boyle has changed that. Now it is planned that a international standard eco park will be built within the 5 minute boat ride to cairns to keep the green backdrop.

[Jesse24]

Ecotourism probe
Greg Punshon

Thursday, February 28, 2008

http://www.cairns.com.au/images/uploadedfiles/editorial/pictures/2008/02/28/ecotourismusu.jpg
Lush: Formerly degraded sugar cane fields have been regenerated and could be turned into an ecotourist precinct a 10-minute boat ride from Cairns. Picture: EPA

THE state will pay for a $50,000 feasibility study about the best way to turn wetlands at East Trinity into a tourist attraction for Cairns.


The Minister for Tourism and Regional Development, Desley Boyle, said her department and the Department of Natural Resources and Water would draw up terms of reference for the study which she hoped would start in the next few months.

The study follows another prepared for the Government last year by Tourism Tropical North Queensland which concluded the formerly degraded land on the eastern side of Trinity Inlet should be developed as an ecotourism and education precinct.

Numerous proposals have been put forward for the former cane land over the years with the State Government buying it in May 2000.

Over the past few years the land – badly degraded through acid sulfate soil emergence – has been rehabilitated and Ms Boyle said it was now
time to look at the cost of what it would take to turn it into a green attraction.

"We have to look at what it would cost turn this into an ecotourism precinct just a 10-minute boat ride from the centre of Cairns," Ms Boyle said.

"There have been various grand plans for the land over the years but an ecotourism and education precinct is something that would be wonderful for Cairns.

"We have to first find out what it would cost to put in viewing platforms and boardwalks and build a visitor information centre and look at what returns there would be from tourist activities."

Ms Boyle said the feasibility study would determine whether the project should involve government spending or private enterprise.

She described the impact of the rehabilitation and revegetation as "spectacular".

Development of the land as an ecotourism attraction had a lot of potential, she said.

"As Tourism Minister I have been getting a lot of feedback, particularly from British tourists, that we have become a
bit ho-hum with our tourist
attractions," Ms Boyle said.

"They are telling us they have seen what Australia has to offer and it the same old things.

"We need new product and we need green product. Tourists have gone beyond just wanting to look at attractions, they want to be part of it."

[LA53R]

A 10 minute boat ride? i can swim there in under 10 mins what sort of shitty boat are we talking about?

I think they should build a bridge, a big one thats iconic like syd harbour bridge :D hehe wishfull thinking, Cairns is weird cause most CBD's on a inlet/river extend the city to both sides but Cairns just kinda stops and its completely uninhabited over there :S

A theme park there would be awesome, or even a new CBD with NO HEIGHT limit thanks to being further from the airport :)

Well its just my dream i am sharing!

[Jesse24]

HAHA swim!! A bridge would be cool but it would have to be really good looking, or build a tunnel and make it a motorway and build a real stadium there!! I'm half and half on the highrise idea because I would love a good high skyline but I also love the green wilderness backdrop. Maybe they could build a Gold Coast skyline south of Second Beach and keep the winderness park at the mouth of the inlet?

[Gertzy]

^^ There are many possibilities, but i think a tunnel may be the best option, or a nice suspension bridge (but where would it go from and to etc, i.e as a continuation from Comport street etc.

[Jesse24]

I had the idea of it coming out at bunda street in the middle of the street just down the road from the central park office tower betweet Spence and Kenny Streets. The street is very wide and the tunnel could come up in the middle and do a merge thing with bunda street before the lights and people who want to go south can go down spence street and then draper street to the southern access road. The tunnel would have to be 6 lanes of course :D

EDIT: I have also been drawing up a plan of it up on screenshots of google earth, i might finish it and post it soon.

[LA53R]

A suspension bridge would be awesome, they could continue sheridan street right up onto a bridge and over the inlet, since it is the main road comming into the city from the north and points directly at the inlet :)

[Jesse24]

This is what WAS planned for East Trinity. Least they were going to keep a hidden waterfront. The red is high density and the pink is middle density.
http://img176.imageshack.us/img176/7517/trinitydf8.jpg

[Oriolus]

^^Wow thats pretty amazing! How long ago was it that was going to happen? And I'm assuming access was off the Yarrabah road? If so, even though Cairns is just across the water it would have been pretty isolated. I guess it was kind of a satellite city?

I didn't actully realise there was so much cleared land over there - I thought it was all a pristine wilderness. I'm not too sure about this ecotourism precinct idea of Desley Boyle's though. Cairns has so many natural assets that I would have thought would be more suitable for further ecotourism development. Degraded former cane fields don't seem like they would have all that much environmental appeal against all the reef and rainforest and mangroves.

http://i31.tinypic.com/2vm6lmx.jpg

[Mazigi10]

A 10 minute boat ride? i can swim there in under 10 mins what sort of shitty boat are we talking about?

I think they should build a bridge, a big one thats iconic like syd harbour bridge :D hehe wishfull thinking, Cairns is weird cause most CBD's on a inlet/river extend the city to both sides but Cairns just kinda stops and its completely uninhabited over there :S

A theme park there would be awesome, or even a new CBD with NO HEIGHT limit thanks to being further from the airport :)

Well its just my dream i am sharing!

I personally think that the bridge should no way be made because think about it, cairns is a tropical city, though still with a good city but why would you want to destroy and build a bridge over the inlet. It difies the whole purpose of our beautiful scenary of the mountins and the inlet, Why do we want to copy other big cities. We have the best surroundings why not embrace that. The bridge would only corrupt and interfier with the envriomment and the scenary. People come here for a holiday and this place is a tourist attraction, if we were to buld the bridge it would make the city look too biuld for its own good. If we want a beautiful and tropical city, we should not build that bridge.:ohno:

[Jesse24]

Yeah look at that land! Also it's under two metres!
http://www.abovephotography.com.au/Aerial-Photos/Queensland/Far-North/East-Trinity-001875-Original.jpg
http://www.abovephotography.com.au

[Gertzy]

^^ Well hopefully all the rich people will enjoy their new one of a kind underwater Golf Course after January Rains and Cyclones :D.

[Jesse24]

haha don't they already have that at Yorkeys Knob :lol:

[Cairnsinite]

i agree with development but also would love to see the green space around Cairns preserved.....with Jesse's plan dont think it would be popular with the people of Yarrabah, having urban development slowly creeping over towards their boundaries as evident with the fiasco surrounding Reef Cove development