Oh I was picturing very humid north QLD, the drier weather makes sense
Nope... it's understandable that impression gets installed though what with
the tourism industry label "Great Green Way". BOM can deliver annual
summarys for each area but roughly there are "rain shadows" on the coast
at Yeppon, Bowen, Giru to Rollingstone (includes Townsville), Cardwell Range
to Bilyana and another narrow band from Ellis Beach to Port Douglas.
And like you'd think Tully signified the wet look best what with it's high
rainfall - and the ADF having their jungle training facility there - but go
inland not 20Kms and your're in open woodland forest (bush).
There is why we differentiate between "scrub" and "bush", bee foraging wise.
Once your're on top of the range (Great Divide) where the scrub is most thick
your're in some very dry open woodlands, the Tablelands being the exception.
Out where the Merlin poster is from ( norWest Tabkelands) they have to irrigate
to crop, nice volcanic soils but poor (comparitively) rainfall. The only contact I
had out there moved his operation to Toowoomba, years ago, so it'd be nice to
know if SHB has moved in there yet.
That all means little to someone offshore as cyclones and floods have long placed
their stamp, geographicly, but these are very localised peaking events as you
would know.
Cheers.
Bill