For three months, Julian and Jackie Pagani have been burning hundreds of litres of fuel a day to power a campsite no-one can visit.
Usually their camping ground at Cape Tribulation, nestled between World Heritage-listed rainforest and the Great Barrier Reef, swells with visitors this time of year.
But since Cyclone Jasper and a subsequent flooding event wreaked havoc on Far North Queensland last December, no-one has been able to get into the remote coastal village.
There’s only one road into Cape Tribulation, and it’s impassable.
“We haven’t had any tourist trade since the cyclone so we are three months in with no income, no trade,” Ms Pagani said.
“We don’t know where to go from here, we don’t know when we can reopen the doors, we don’t know what to tell our staff, we don’t know what to tell the bank.”
Cape Tribulation has no mains power so for the Paganis, powering the campground…
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