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Back in the late 60's when I was about 10 years old we were having Family Christmas Holidays at a caravan park in Cairns when a cyclone was coming. The police drove around with loudspeakers telling tourists to leave!
As the winds were increasing we ripped the tent & annexe down fast, threw it into the caravan and headed south like thousands of others.
When we arrived at a Rockhampton Caravan park it was filling fast with the same people that we saw at the Cairns Caravan Park. They did their best to fit us all in.
About an hour later we were settled in with the tent & annexe up again. During that night (unkown to all of us) the cyclone moved back out to sea from Cairns, came down the coast and got us at Rockhampton the next day!!!!!
And in the midst of the cyclone fishermen were rushing to get out to the end of the pier to catch all the Tailor as they swam into the safer water!!!!
It was pretty rough but we survived without damage. The tent & annexe were put back into the caravan, the caravan was anchored down with tons of ropes and we sat it out for about 4 hours in the Rec room with heaps of other people.
Nasty stuff them cyclones from what I remember! But the wierd memory I have is the fishermen risking their lives to catch those Tailor!!!!
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