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Mourilyan, a rural town, is 10 km south of Innisfail and 90 km south-east of Cairns. It was named by Captain John Moresby in 1872 after one of his officers, Lieutenant Mourilyan. Moresby charted Mourilyan Harbour, 9 km east of the town, when journeying in HMS Basilisk on a coastal patrol. In the following year, George Elphinstone Dalrymple was commissioned to explore the bays and rivers of north Queensland. He reported favourably on the fertility of the coast around Mourilyan Harbour, naming Esmerelda Hill to the south, apparently inspired by the greenness of the landscape. In the early 1880s the Mourilyan Sugar Company was formed, taking up 5000 acres and building a tramway (1883) to the harbour and a crushing mill. A harbour town was formed, with a notorious Blackbirders Retreat hotel. It was around the mill, however, that the permanent Mourilyan township was formed. Mourilyan was described in the Australian handbook in 1903: Source: queenslandplaces.com.au/mourilyan

Accompanying note: "Touring the Sunshine Skyway is like going to Sea in your Automobile. Fifteen miles of sun, sea and sky and stops on the wide causeways are permitted to fish and enjoy the warm surf. The Sunshine Skyway is reached from the North by U.S. 19, from the South by U.S. 41 and is part of the new West Florida Coast Speedway."

The Sunshine Skyway Bridge is a bridge connecting St. Petersburg in Pinellas County and Terra Ceia in Manatee County, Florida, passing through Hillsborough County waters. A system of five bridges with six fills, it originally opened as a steel cantilever bridge on September 7, 1954. Damaged during the worst bridge disaster in Florida history when an errant freighter ship "Summit Venture" struck a major support of the southbound lane during a storm on May 9, 1980. The main span toppled into Tampa Bay and 35 people lost their lives. Later, the bridge was replaced by a $230 million cable-stayed main span that opened in February 1987.

Can't imagine those poor people that drove off the opening to their deaths because that bridge is way up there.

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