A view of Lake Street in Cairns, Queensland, Australia. The photographer is standing on the side of the street looking south east. There is a no parking sign on in the foreground on the left side of the image There is a Mercedes Benz car sign on the opposite side of the street in the foreground. The building next to the car sign bears the name 'Courts'. The fifth building on the opposite side of the street bears the sign 'Rides'. Car are stationary on both side of the street in the middle ground. Mountains are in the background. The photographer describes this as the 'main street' on the card mount. This is Slide 31 of a series of slides detailing Captain H. Bird's service as Watchkeeping Officer for the cable ship John W. Mackay (1922) owned by Commercial Cable Company of London from 26 November 1975 to 24 April 1976. This series consists of 33 surviving slides.