The NQ Blue Sky Competition!

Craving blue skies! We are desperately smoggy and overcast at the moment:
And, although we thought the insane heat finally, after more than six months, was over, today it's back.

Anyway, here I am, deeply longing for blue skies and going through my photographs, when all the blue from our recent North Queensland holiday leapt out at me, so I decided to show you blue sky shots to let you decide which place in NQ had the bluest skies:

The desert uplands
near Hugendon.
Actually a shot of an eagle's nest.

Hinchenbrook Island as seen
from the tiny town of Cardwell.

The Townsville Strand as
seen from Rows Point.

The mudflats at Cairns.
OK, I've just put this one here
because Townsville and Cairns have
a longstanding feud over who has the best
waterfront. I side with Townsville.

This is the sky over Cairns.

The sky over the old gold mine
outside Charters Towers.

The sky over Innisfail.

OK, better stop with this bias.
Here's the sky over Innisfail.

OK, OK, THIS is the sky over Innisfail.

And, in the name of fairplay,
another!

North Queensland sky as seen from
The Great Barrier Reef's
eco-resort at Green Island.

The sky over Charters Towers.

The sky over Mt Stewart near Townsville.

The sky over the Desert Uplands.

And near Richmond,
a location in the desert.

And the award for the bluest sky in NQ goes to ...