Dispatches from Paronella Park

Port Douglas,CookTown&Dunk Isle' 130Spaniard emigrates to Australia in the 1930s, where he makes a fortune buying and selling cane farms.   He then realises his dream by building a castle near a waterfall.  Subsequently mother nature has ravaged it somewhat, with floods, cyclones and fires.  It must be the only “castle ruin” in Australia.  Billed as a “not to be missed” attraction, with promotional material suggesting that it is almost a religious shrine, it struck me as somewhat odd.  I think mainly it seemed a clash of aesthetics.  A mediterranean design in a tropical setting. 

Port Douglas,CookTown&Dunk Isle' 137

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