Golden Gumboot
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The Golden Gumboot is a competition between the Far North Queensland towns of Tully, Innisfail and Babinda in Australia for the wettest town of Australia. These towns exist in the Wet Tropics and on land that was previously covered by rainforest. These areas experience some of the highest level of rainfall in Australia through monsoonal rain and cyclones. The winner for the competition (since 1970) was awarded with a rubber boot.
Despite the fact that Babinda has had more rainfall than Tully in the last 40 years, The Golden Gumboot momument was erected in Tully by the Tully Lions and Rotary Clubs on 10 May 2003. The boot stands at 7.9 metres and represents the record rainfall for Tully in 1950. This is despite the fact that the floods that Tully experienced in 1967 and 1973 were greater than 8 metres. The boot is composed of fibreglass and has a spiral staircase to the top of the boot that allows a view of the town. Tully holds a Golden Gumboot Festival annually.
