These our the things I remember from our educational day on coffee!
> Jaques is a family business (3 generations) The family moved from Tanzania to start their new plantation in Queensland. They have been broke twice and still kept fighting to make excellent coffee.
> It takes 6kg of Cherries to make 1kg of Coffee beans.
> Jaques has 85,000 Arabica trees in rich soil on their 200 acre plantation.
> Pruning happens every 9 years approximately.
> Coffee Cherries never grow on dead wood.
>You get two beans from one Cherry.
> When roasting coffee, the difference is only 30 seconds between a medium roast & a dark roast.
> Jaques get a crop once a year.
The Off-Road Segway tour was good fun & informative.
Steve.
Glen & out tutor Tina.
Jane & I.
Some of the Coffee Trees.
Me traversing around a termite mound.
Jaques Coffee.
Me in the Gyrocopter.
The runway.
Steve getting ready to go.
Steve is ready for lift off.
Steve doing selfies in the Gyrocopter.
Mareeba town.
Jaques Coffee Plantation.
The Croc Farm.
Fields of Mareeba & Tablelands.
Me coming in to land and waving to Steve, Glen & Jane.
Mareeba Golf club.
The Barron River.
More Coffee.
The coffee/Cherry picker machine.
Coffee Beans.
A Falcon.
Another water crossing.
Golden drop Mango winery, is a commercial Mango Plantation, established in 1999.
Mango trees at Golden Drop Winery. (Kensington Red Mangroves).
Mango's.
The packing factory at Golden Drop Winery.
Yummy Tasting session & sparkling wine purchased for New Year's Eve.
Coffee temptation purchased from Jaque's Coffee Plantation, also for New Year's Eve.
CoffeeWorks is the original Roastery & Chocolatier of the Tropics. This boutique family business began as a single stall at Rusty's markets, Cairns 1988. We paid $10 each and were able to taste 4 different teas, over 20 different coffee's, 4 liquor's and the chocolate- just fill your face!
The museum displays plungers, filters, percolators, samovars, espresso machines, grinders & balance pots. The museum has over 2000 coffee & tea making treasures. This is the biggest, best & most significant collection of coffee artefacts in the World.
Steve, Jane & Glen getting into the chocolate.
Some of the coffee to taste, with Glen & Jane in the back ground having a rest between samples.
Some of the chocolate to sample.
A drive to check out Barron Fall's and Davies Fall's, after all the rain we have had every falls a good fall!
Barron Falls.
Barron Falls is pumping.
Davies National Park.
Davies Fall's
The bottom of Davies Fall's.
Davies National Park.
Just pretty.
