A younger cohort of visitors is heading for Bowen, best known hitherto as the home of the Big Mango, a favoured stop for grey nomads in their supersized caravans.
The manager of a local caravan park recites the story of one youngish couple who turned up at reception one evening looking somewhat dishevelled and complaining that they’d been beaten up by locals.
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