The Golden Gumboot is Tully's most distinctive landmark — a seven-metre-tall fibreglass rubber boot in the town centre, celebrating (or perhaps lamenting) the town's status as one of the wettest places in Australia. The boot's interior is hollow, and a spiral staircase leads to a viewing platform at the top with views over the cane fields and rainforest hills that surround the town.
It's a cheerful piece of roadside Australiana — the kind of giant object that regional towns erect to claim some distinction and give tourists a reason to stop. Tully leans into the wettest-town title with good humour: the welcome signs cite the annual rainfall figure, and the locals are reliably willing to discuss the relative merits of Tully versus Babinda in the wettest-town competition.