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Beaver Reef Dive Site  

Located in the protected Beaver Cay Marine Sanctuary off Mission Beach, Beaver Reef is an unspoiled fringing reef surrounding a sandy cay and offers a range of dive sites. Abundant soft corals and large gorgonian sea fans, lots of giant clams, helmet ...

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Bicton Hill Circuit  

Bicton Hill is part of the Clump Mountain National Park. The walk has a fairly easy grade as it winds up the hill and forms a loop track apart from the first half a kilometre. On the way up there are a few places along the way where you can see out ...

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Cathedral Fig Tree  

The Cathedral Fig Tree, like the Curtain Fig Tree, is a gigantic 500 year old strangler tree. Located in the Danbulla State Forest, the Cathedral Fig has the reputation of being the best place to hear an early morning bird 'singing' in the Atherton T ...

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Clump Mountain National Park  

With Bicton Hill at its centre, Clump Mountain National Park preserves one of the few remaining patches of undisturbed lowland tropical rainforest. Many of the trees have large buttressed trunks and support epiphytic ferns and other plants. Several s ...

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Family Islands National Park  

Family Islands National Park covers a chain of islands near Mission Beach, with lush rainforest and woodlands, surrounded by coral reefs, tidal flats and sandy beaches. The chain is part of the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage area. The most accessi ...

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Licuala State Forest  

Licuala State Forest boasts several enjoyable walking tracks. Enjoy the native wildlife of the area as you walk around the forest…the Ulysses butterfly, cassowaries and green tree frogs. Be sure to look upwards to enjoy the sunlight shining through ...

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The "Lady Bowen" Dive Site  

The Lady Bowen Wreck off Mission Beach is a 220ft schooner now over 100 years old. A converted paddle steamer, she now rests in 34 metres and has become a reef in itself hosting magnificent coral formations and awesome marine life. You are likely to ...

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The Big Cassowary  

Many Australian towns boast large monuments of their most recognisable town features, and Mission Beach is no different. Come see the five metre tall Big Cassowary at Wongaling Beach. Mission Beach is known for its high population of cassowaries and ...

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Ulysses Link Walk  

A wonderful walking track is known to locals as the Ulysses Link Walking Track. Coiling its way along Mission Beach’s foreshore, the areas Indigenous and European history can be learnt through interpretive artworks created by local artists. Named f ...

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Far Western Queensland Outback Trip

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Cow Bay Beach

Cow Bay Beach, where rainforest meets the Great Barrier Reef cowbayhomestay | 2009-02-04 | Cow Bay Beach, north of the Daintree River in Far North Queensland is on the Daintree Coast. Here two World Heritage areas come together in a spectacular fashion: Daintree Rainforest meets The Great Barrier Reef. | read more

Finding Utopia in Hervey Bay

Michel and Me herveybay | 2009-01-23 | Retirement and travelling around Australia the two goals of many an Australian. So that’s what we did in 2006... | read more

Keswick Island, Whitsunday's

Keswick Island's Basil Bay Beach keswickisland | 2009-01-18 | Information & history about Keswick & neighbouring Islands in the Cumberland Group. | read more

Australia: Love at first sight - Perth

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Thornton’s Beach at Cape Tribulation

The beach and us marief | 2009-01-19 | A beautiful isolated beach in Tropical North Queensland with historical reference to Captain Cook's discovery of the Eastern Coast of Australia | read more

Australia: Love at first sight - Exmouth

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Surfing at Shipsterns Bluff, Marion Bay, SE Tasmania

Shipsterns is close to the popular town and beach of Marion Bay Beachbreaks | 2009-02-15 | Shipsterns Bluff , 'The Stern' or "shippies" has put South East Tasmania firmly on the world surfing map. The wave is considered as one of the worlds heaviest, and with good reason. | read more

 

 

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