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"The Moltke" Dive Site - Magnetic Island  

"The Moltke" is a wreck dive accessible from the shore on Magnetic Island. The old cargo Boat has been here for over 70 years. The structure is fairly broken up providing many corners and holes for marine life to hide in. Batfish, Grouper, Squirrelfi ...

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Alligator Creek - Bowling Green Bay National Park - Townsville  

Bowling Green Bay is the largest National Park (55 300 hectares) between the city of Townsville and the town of Bowen on the North Queensland coast. The park includes the Mount Elliot area and adjacent coastal wetlands, saltpans and mangroves. Bowlin ...

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Alligator Creek Track - Townsville  

Alligator Creek flows through Bowling Green Bay National Park in a series of cascades, deep pools and waterfalls. The track to Alligator Falls meanders roughly parallel to the creek through the open forest to Hidden Valley. Discarded machinery is a ...

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Arcadia at Magnetic Island - Magnetic Island  

Arcadia is the smallest of the four main bays around Magnetic Island. Arcadia surrounds two of the Island’s prominent bays; Alma Bay and Geoffrey Bay. Geoffrey Bay is a Marine National Park Zone, which signifies no fishing or collecting, but is gre ...

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Australian Institute of Marine Science - Townsville  

The Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS) is a leader in tropical marine science. The Institute is consistently ranked among the top one per cent of specialist research institutions internationally and is known for its unique capacity to inve ...

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Balgal Beach - Townsville  

Balgal Beach is a beachside community popular as a day and overnight trip destination for locals and tourists to Thuringowa and Townsville. Just a few minutes from Rollingstone, Balgal Beach features a stinger net, which is installed and patrolled f ...

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Beaver Reef Dive Site - Mission Beach  

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 - Mission Beach  

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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Blencoe Falls, Girringun National Park - Cardwell  

Blencoe Falls, Girrungun National Park offers breathtakingly beautiful landscapes. Blencoe Falls tumbles 90 metrea into a rocky pool, before cascading a further 230 metres to the hoop pine-studded valley below. Eventually, the water flows into the He ...

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Bluewater - Townsville  

Bluewater hosts a picturesque fresh water attraction popular with picnic goers, including barbecues, toilets, showers and play equipment. Access the creek via the Bluewater Store (near the bridge), or Bluewater Park. Bluewater Park is a designated l ...

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Bowling Green Bay National Park - Townsville  

Diverse habitats are protected in Bowling Green Bay National Park, the largest coastal park in the region. Its coastal plains are dramatically set against a backdrop of rugged granite mountains rising abruptly in the distance. Camp overnight at Allig ...

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Broadwater, Abergowrie State Forest - Ingham  

Two distinct forest communities feature in Broadwater, Abergowrie State Forest. Endangered riparian rainforest lines the clear waters of Broadwater Creek. Open eucalypt forest dominates the visitor areas. The park is home to the vulnerable rufous owl ...

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Bushland Beach - Townsville  

Bushland Beach is part of the Northern Beaches precinct of Thuringowa, located 15 minutes drive from Thuringowa central business district. Access to Bushland Beach is via a turnoff along the Bruce Highway. This beautiful stretch of beach is a suburba ...

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Buujan Quiinbiira Walk (Wet Tropics Great!Walk) - Ingham  

Wallaman Falls is the largest single drop waterfall in Australia, tumbling 305 metres through a rainbow-fringed cloud of mist into a large pool. Before setting out on your walk, take a moment to stand at the lookout (near the carpark) and gaze at the ...

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Cape Pallarenda Conservation Park - Townsville  

A scenic coastal park close to Townsville, Cape Pallarenda is the site of a former quarantine station dating from 1915. The buildings are typical 'Queenslander style' with high ceilings and wide verandahs. The park features ruins and relics from Worl ...

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Cathedral Fig Tree - Mission Beach  

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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Centenary Park - Charters Towers  

Centenary Park has the gold discovery monuments, picnic tables, gas barbecues and is always cool and shady. Centenary Park also has an interesting history tied to the park. The area was first gazetted as Reserve for Public Purposes in 1888. In 1941 ...

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Charters Towers and Pioneer Cemeteries - Charters Towers  

Charters Towers Cemetery was established in 1895. It is the resting place for a number of interesting local characters including Jupiter Mosman who, as local lore has it, was one of the party that discovered gold at Charters Towers; Doctor Leonard R ...

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Charters Towers Folk Museum - Charters Towers  

This National Trust owned and run, Charters Towers Museum houses a large collection of photographs, equipment and other memorabilia that reflects Charters Towers golden past. Friendly volunteers and staff are only too willing to share their special s ...

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Charters Towers Visitor Information Centre - Charters Towers  

The Charters Towers Visitor Information Centre occupies a beautifully restored heritage building. The building itself is an attraction. It has been moved on four occasions during it’s 125 years. It was originally constructed for the Queensland N ...

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Civic Club - Charters Towers  

Drop into the Civic Club, originally known as the Londoner's Club, (a gentlemen's club) and enjoy a drink with a local, soak up the atmosphere of this amazing historic building and have a round of billiards on one of the two 100 year old tables. Don ...

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Cloudy Creek Track - Ingham  

Cloudy Creek is one of a variety of short walks in the Paluma area. This walking track leads through the rainforest from McClelland's lookout, which is the perfect place for a picnic lunch and affords panoramic views of Halifax Bay, Crystal Creek and ...

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Clump Mountain National Park - Mission Beach  

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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Coral Sea Battle Memorial Park - Cardwell  

The Coral Sea Battle Memorial Park is Australia’s largest war memorial. The park was created to commemorate an air and sea battle which took place in 1942 about 800 kilometres east off the coast of Queensland, between Australian/United States force ...

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Cotters Markets - Townsville  

Cotters Market is North Queensland's award winning arts and crafts market held every Sunday between 8.30 a.m. and 1.00 p.m. in Flinders Mall Townsville. Cotters Market is a great place to shop. They have ultra-fresh fruit and vegetables, stunning j ...

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Dalrymple National Park - Charters Towers  

Dalrymple National Park covers an area of 1640 hectares and is located 46 kilometres north or a 30 minute drive from the town of Charters Towers (90 minute drive west of the city of Townsville). The Park can be accessed via the Gregory Development R ...

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Dalrymple Sales Yards - Cattle Sales - Charters Towers  

Experience the thrill of livestock going under the hammer. Cattle Sales are held every Wednesday at the Dalrymple Sales Yards. Beef is produced on 250 commercial properties running around 600,000 head of cattle between them, making the Dalrymple Sh ...

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Dan Gleeson Memorial Gardens - Townsville  

The Dan Gleeson Memorial Gardens are located along Thuringowa Drive, Kirwan in the city of Thuringowa (twin city of Townsville). The gardens feature a wide range of native flora situated amongst large lawn parks and paved pathways. The gardens also f ...

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Davies Reef Dive Site - Townsville  

Davies Reef, off Townsville on the Great Barrier Reef, is home to a number of dive sites from large pinnacles with small caves to prolific coral gardens and drop-offs. Deep gutters cut through the reef where the walls are decorated with soft corals a ...

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Edmund Kennedy National Park - Cardwell  

Edmund Kennedy National Park is within the Wet Tropics World Heritage Area. Few parts of north Queensland's wet tropics can boast the range of vegetation types found in this park. Lying along the coastline, just north of Cardwell, Edmund Kennedy Nati ...

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Family Islands National Park - Mission Beach  

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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Fishing at Magnetic Island - Magnetic Island  

Magnetic Island fishing just has to be seen to be believed. A catch is virtually guaranteed, and what a catch it can be; 22 pound Coral Trout and 44 pound Spanish Mackerel are among the trophies happy fishermen have taken home. From the beaches, rock ...

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Frosty Mango - Townsville  

Welcome to Frosty Mango, a wonderful stop-over on the Bruce Highway, 65 kilometres north of Townsville and gate-way to the Great Barrier Reef. In air-conditioned comfort inside or shade alfresco outside, you can refresh with the large range of home-m ...

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Golden Gumboot - Tully  

Originally the Golden Gumboot was a competition between Tully, Innisfail and Babinda as to which town is the wettest in Australia. The winner for the competition (since 1970) was awarded with a rubber boot and with an annual rainfall of up to seven m ...

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Goold Island National Park - Townsville  

Goold Island National Park celebrates a pristine tropical island in the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area, where forests spill onto sandy beaches. Dugongs and turtles feed on seagrass beds in shallow waters surrounding the island. The park is si ...

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Gugigugi (Butterfly) Walk (Wet Tropics Great!Walk) - Ingham  

On the first day of the Gugigugi Walk (18.7 kilometres) in the Wallaman Falls section of Girringun National Park, you can enjoy a pleasant walk through open forest along the high banks of the Herbert River. Keep your eyes and ears open for resident w ...

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Hinchinbrook Heritage Walk - Ingham  

Ingham, a large, tropical town of gardens on the Herbert River, is set apart from other sugar centres of the north by its distinctive Mediterranean flavour - a legacy of an influx of Italians, Basques and Spaniards who migrated in the twilight of the ...

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Hinchinbrook Island National Park - Cardwell  

Hinchinbrook National Park on Hinchinbrook Island offers isolation and experience of wilderness. Hinchinbrook is one of Australia’s most impressive and rugged continental islands and the challenging Thorsborne Trail is one of the world’s most pop ...

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Historic Ambulance Centre - Charters Towers  

The Historic Ambulance Centre dates back to 1903 and was restored and reopened to the public 100 years from its first opening. The centre was the first ambulance station outside of Brisbane and houses a wonderful collection of vehicles, uniforms and ...

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Horseshoe Bay - Magnetic Island  

Horseshoe Bay is the largest bay on Magnetic Island. Ideal for watersports, almost every watercraft imaginable is available for hire as well as being a departure point for sailing, cruising, fishing and kayak trips. Here too, you can experience swim ...

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Jagany (Goanna) Walk, (Wet Tropics Great!Walk) - Ingham  

In Girringun National Park you'll find Wallaman Falls - the largest single drop waterfall in Australia, tumbling 305 metres through a rainbow-fringed cloud of mist into a large pool. Before setting out on your walk, take a moment to stand at the look ...

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Jambal (Snake) Walk (Wet Tropics Great!Walk) - Cardwell  

The Jambal Walk begins at Blencoe Falls, a spectacular three-tiered waterfall, which cascades 300 metres down into the Herbert River Gorge below. Situated in the drier savanna woodlands, hoop pines grow on the rocky outcrops around the falls. As you ...

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James Cook University of North Queensland - Townsville  

James Cook University offers study and research opportunities in a broad range of disciplines, whilst enjoying world leadership in subjects of special importance to the region. James Cook University increasingly focuses on a range of commercial link ...

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Jourama Falls Track - Ingham  

Jourama Falls in Paluma Range National Park is a popular camping and picnic area beside rainforest fringed Waterview Creek. The walking track winds along the creek and down into the rainforest where you walk through the rocky creek bed to the other ...

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Jourama Falls, Paluma Range National Park - Ingham  

Jourama Falls, Paluma National Park and other cascades and rapids on Waterview Creek are fed by streams flowing down from higher slopes. No wonder Paluma National Park is World Heritage-listed. The buff-breasted paradise-kingfisher migrates from Papu ...

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Juwun Walk (Wet Tropics Great!Walk) - Cardwell  

The Juwun Walk starts at Blencoe Falls in Girringun National Park, a spectacular three-tiered waterfall, which cascades 300 metres down into the Herbert River Gorge below. The walk follows the Herbert River downstream to Yamanie, with no designated ...

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Koolmoon Creek Track (Misty Mountains Trail) - Tully  

This walk is part of the Misty Mountain Trails network, situated between the towns of Innisfail, Tully, Ravenshoe and Millaa Millaa. The Koolmoon Creek Track is a long distance walk between Cochable Creek on the coastal lowlands and Ravenshoe on the ...

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Lake Paluma - Townsville  

Lake Paluma is an attractive lake surrounded by World Heritage Rainforest. It provides a water supply for approximately one third of the year. Access is via a 12 kilometres gravel road just past the Paluma township. There are weather proof shelters f ...

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Lake Ross - Townsville  

Owned by NQ Water, Lake Ross stores over 200,000 million litres of water and supplies up to 80 per cent of the region's potable water supply. The dam wall stretches 8.3 kilometres across the Ross River floodplain (longest in the Southern Hemisphere) ...

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Licuala State Forest - Mission Beach  

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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