The pub with no fear: Soaked punters drink in floods

  • Determined beer drinkers battled raging floodwaters with boats and tractors to get to their local boozer
  • Photo taken outside the Hotel Euramo in north Queensland shows four boats moored outside the premises
  • The brave pub has refused to close its doors despite more than 400mm of rain falling in less than 24 hours

Soaked to the bone but sipping their tinnies as they would under serene blue skies, these determined beer drinkers battled raging floodwaters with boats and tractors to get to their local boozer.

A photo taken outside the Hotel Euramo in north Queensland shows four boats moored outside as undeterred locals enjoy their usual drinks on the front porch.

The pub has refused to close its doors despite more than 400mm of rain falling in less than 24 hours in parts of the Tropical Coast on Thursday. 

This photo taken outside the Hotel Euramo in north Queensland shows four boats moored outside as undeterred locals enjoy their unusual drinks on the front porch

The pub has refused to close its doors despite more than 400mm of rain falling in less than 24 hours in parts of the Tropical Coast on Thursday

The pub has refused to close its doors despite more than 400mm of rain falling in less than 24 hours in parts of the Tropical Coast on Thursday

Staff members also posted a video of their punters being escorted to the premises through deep waters on a tractor

Staff members also posted a video of their punters being escorted to the premises through deep waters on a tractor

Staff members also posted a video of their punters being escorted to the premises through deep waters on a tractor.

They captioned it: ‘Thanks Spoksey for your tactor taxi service might need the tinnie tomorrow’.

The pub also posted photos of the floodwaters rising from the windows, with the caption: ‘Hi all, update from The Mo. It’s wet. The Euramo Yacht Club is open for business Special promotion to the first Tinnie moring of the day.’

The Facebook posts have attracted thousands of shares and comments, with customers and locals praising the ‘fantastic’ boozer and its determined punters. 

The pub also posted photos of the floodwaters rising from the windows, with the caption: 'Hi all, update from The Mo. It's wet. The Euramo Yacht Club is open for business Special promotion to the first Tinnie moring of the day.'

The pub also posted photos of the floodwaters rising from the windows, with the caption: ‘Hi all, update from The Mo. It’s wet. The Euramo Yacht Club is open for business Special promotion to the first Tinnie moring of the day.’

The Facebook posts have attracted thousands of shares and comments, with customers and locals praising the 'fantastic' boozer and its determined punters

The Facebook posts have attracted thousands of shares and comments, with customers and locals praising the ‘fantastic’ boozer and its determined punters

One customer simply commented: ‘Now you’re talking!’

Another wrote: ‘Always loved how the pub would be open during flood times!!! Such a great little area and endless amounts of fun was had by me and my family when the water would rise this much! 

‘Tractors are the only adequate form of transport to get around the rounds with besides a canoe!’

It comes after an increase in reported crocodile sightings due to the floodwaters. 

Crocodiles (pictured) and deadly diseases are among some of the dangers lurking beneath the flood waters currently swamping Queensland's far north

Crocodiles (pictured) and deadly diseases are among some of the dangers lurking beneath the flood waters currently swamping Queensland’s far north

Far North Queensland has been clobbered with rain in the past few weeks with Kirrama Range getting 400mm on Thursday

Far North Queensland has been clobbered with rain in the past few weeks with Kirrama Range getting 400mm on Thursday

One woman spotted a huge crocodile just metres from the road as she made her way home from work in Ingham on Thursday night.

I saw it on way home from working at the hospital last night,’ she told Daily Mail Australia.

‘I was driving slow as I wasn’t sure if water was over the bridge. I went passed it and realised it was a croc. I reversed back to take a photo.

‘It looked like it had already been hit by something. It was still alive but I didn’t get too close. But on driving in this morning it had been moved or had got away.’    

People have been warned to stay out of flood waters across north Queensland due to the risk of deadly diseases

People have been warned to stay out of flood waters across north Queensland due to the risk of deadly diseases

The town of Ingham (pictured) is severely flooded with 175 homes affected in the town, the fire service said

The town of Ingham (pictured) is severely flooded with 175 homes affected in the town, the fire service said

Up to 200mm of rain was predicted in parts of the Cairns area and northern Queensland on Friday

Up to 200mm of rain was predicted in parts of the Cairns area and northern Queensland on Friday



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