Sweet Secrets of Mission Beach:

The story of the stalks that run this town

If you’ve driven into Mission Beach, you’ve seen them.
Tall, green, waving like friendly giants on both sides of the road.
Cane fields — endless, whispery, perfectly lined, and suspiciously good-looking at sunset.

But cane isn’t just scenery.
Oh no. Cane sugar is basically the unofficial mayor of Far North Queensland.

Here’s the inside scoop on the sweet stuff growing all around us.