Victoria's View | 8 July 2025

Hiya Hinchinbrook Shire! I feel like I have driven all over the region and had so many wonderful experiences this week, documenting and photographing events for the paper.

I met the lovely volunteers at Meals on Wheels, and the great crowd at the Seniors Coffee Club (sorry to interrupt your bingo!), the amazing staff at the Pie Face and United Petroleum reopening, and then the fantastic volunteers of the North Queensland Wildlife Care who were raising orphaned joeys on the top of Mt Fox.

The drive was pretty challenging to the top of the mountain, but the joey cuteness and the lovely market of friendly people were so worth the trip to me. I picked up two books from the book swap there and said hello to many happy dogs. The views along the drive were spectacular, and the fresh mountain air was crisp and cleansing. If you have the chance, go visit the markets or camp at the grounds, they're held on the 1st Saturday of every month.

This weekend holds the Ingham Gold Cup Races, and I will be there, camera in hand to capture the fierce competition of both the horses and the fashions on the field - hope you all prepared your fascinators!

Victoria

Fun Fact: A relic of north Queensland's volcanic past, Mount Fox is an isolated, well-preserved, dormant volcano with a shallow crater which was formed 100,000 years ago by a volcanic eruption.