If you happen to pass through Banana, Queensland, and you might wonder, with a name like that, where all the banana plantations are. But if you look around, you’ll be even further perplexed to discover you’re in the dusty heart of Australia’s cattle country. Believe it or not, Banana is named for a bull. In the 1850s, before a town existed here and the area was just a series of squatting leaseholds and sheep stations, the region’s best working bullock was a yellow-colored beast named Banana. Banana would lead bullock…
