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Historic Mount Buffalo Chalet to close 12-Nov-2009 At 1:08:20 PM cruze

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The Cairns-Kuranda gondola is pretty good to ride on. It benefits immensely, however, from the fact that Cairns is the gateway to the Reef with a huge number of annual tourists. I doubt that it would be as successful if you didn't have one of the 7 Natural Wonders sitting just off the coast.

Whilst the Buffalo gondola could be equally as good (pretty views, nice day trip), it cannot possibly attract the same number of tourists because it is so far from the nearest major tourist destination - Melbourne. 600,000 users per year you have got to be joking! What a hype-up.

I fear that it would become another white elephant just like the Melbourne "eye" or ferris wheel or whatever that thing is when it gets put back in service. The thing I don't like is that it will be pretty destructive to the Nat Park to build - you can't easily undo that sort of thing, and you won't have a rainforest canopy to disguise the service roads and pilons.