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Hello Amazingfaces,

As long as you are up there it might be instructive to turn up unannounced anyway.

Go and have a cup of tea at the teahouse, and if as I suspect there is NOTHING MUCH HAPPENING at the Papyrus building have a couple of stiff rums at the Distillery to drown the pain!

If the factory is churning through the banana logs at full tilt we'd all like to know.

Please report back here if you could :-)

"Papyrus Australia?s first factory is located at the Mount Uncle banana plantation on the foothills of its namesake, Mount Uncle, near Walkamin on the Atherton Tablelands, Far North Queensland, Australia . The Mount Uncle Plantation directors Bruce and Kem Watkins, along with sons Mark
and Rob, have 200 acres of lady finger-variety bananas, some 7,000 avocado trees and 8,500 macadamia trees. Also forming part of the value-adding business on the property is a distillery and teahouse www.mtuncle.com/location.html). The surrounding banana plantations on the Tableland is approximately 2,000 acres. The Watkins family has managed to build a very successful diverse business including cattle, banana and tourism." Announcement Nov 2009.