Tropical North Queensland   Attractions    

2 Fish Seafood Restaurant - Port Douglas  

'Watch' the world go by sitting at a footpath table of 2 Fish Seafood Restaurant or enjoy the air-conditioned comfort inside while professional and welcoming staff spoil you with friendly attention. 'Taste' an innovative and creative approach to mode ...

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Agincourt Reef - Port Douglas  

Agincourt Reef, off Port Douglas on the Great Barrier Reef, is a series of many smaller reefs with at least 16 different dive sites. The Channels offer interesting swim-throughs and caves, while The Gardens are renowned for their exceptional abundanc ...

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Atherton Birds of Prey Show - Atherton  

Enjoy an intimate wildlife experience in a natural setting at the Atherton Birds of Prey Show. Get up close to some of Australia’s awesome aerial predators, including eagles, owls and falcons. See them flying free, where sky’s the limit! This int ...

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Australian and Oceanic Art Gallery - Port Douglas  

Australian and Oceanic Art Gallery has a diverse and comprehensive range of contemporary and traditional artwork, including paintings, sculpture, glassware, artifacts and jewellery. Australian and Oceanic Art supports and exhibits work from Aborigin ...

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Australian Butterfly Sanctuary - Kuranda  

The Australian Butterfly Sanctuary is home to some 2,000 tropical butterflies. The screened rainforest environment is designed with the needs in mind of it's rainforest inhabitants, with special attention given to the requirements of the electric blu ...

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Australian Sugar Industry Museum - Mourilyan  

Opened in 1977 the Australian Sugar Industry Museum is a modern complex covering some 14,000 square. The Museum's collection comprises of contemporary and historical photographs, books, documents, domestic objects and artefacts related to Australia's ...

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Australian Venom Zoo - Kuranda  

Come on a tour and check out Australia Venom Zoo's amazing animals. At the Australian Venom Zoo, the main focus is on captive breeding and displaying venomous animals that will one day be responsible for producing advanced medicines. The extraction o ...

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Barnard Island Group National Park - Mourilyan  

Barnard Island Group National Park comprises seven islands with a fascinating geological history. The diverse landforms include shallow reefs and rainforest-clad slopes. The southern islands are important seabird-nesting areas. Sightings of the enda ...

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Barron Falls Lookout Track - Cairns  

There are several modes of transport through Barron Gorge National Park, including the historic Kuranda train and the Skyrail cableway. They provide spectacular views of the Gorge and the Barron River far below. At the top of the gorge near Kuranda ...

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Barron Gorge National Park - Kuranda  

Barron Gorge National Park has great cultural and historical significance, with dramatic scenery and World Heritage-listed rainforest. The local Aboriginal people developed trails through the area, which later became the first pack routes used by Eur ...

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Bartle Frere Trail (West) - Cairns  

Towering above the fertile coastal plain 70 kilometres south of Cairns in Wooroonooran National Park are the highest mountains in Queensland, Bartle Frere (1622 metres) and its neighbour Bellenden Ker (1593 metres). More than 8 metres of rain falls ...

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Bartle-Frere Trail (East) - Cairns  

Towering above the fertile coastal plain within the Wooroonooran National Park, 70 kilometres south of Cairns are the highest mountains in Queensland, Bartle Frere (1622 metres) and its neighbour Bellenden Ker (1593 metres). The track begins at the ...

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Batreach - Kuranda  

Batreach, located in Kuranda, is a bat and wildlife care centre, focusing on flying foxes. Pam Tully, creator of the centre, began looking after flying foxes around 1990 in the suburb of Edge Hill in Cairns. She then started a bat and wildlife rescue ...

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Birdworld Kuranda - Kuranda  

Home to the largest single collection of free flying birds in Australia (some 500 of them!), Birdworld Kuranda displays no less than 75 species of the most spectacular birds from all corners of the planet - as well as from the earth's fast diminishin ...

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Black Mountain National Park - Helenvale  

Black Mountain National Park protects an imposing mountain range of massive black granite boulders at the northern end of the Wet Tropics World Heritage Area. This intriguing landscape is the source of many legends and is home to some unique wildlife ...

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Blue Arrow Walk - Cairns  

The adventurous Blue Arrow track loops through the Mt Whitfield Conservation Park. It is a continuation of the Red Arrow walk and branches off near the top of the hill. Mt Whitfield and Mt Lumley are over 300 metres above sea level and offer spectac ...

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Buckin Mex Mexican Restaurant - Cairns  

In Mexico, meal times are like mini-fiestas. A time for everyone to enjoy good food drink and each others company. Whether you're out for lunch or dinner, dining al fresco or their outdoor balcony or sitting in the colourful airconditioned dining roo ...

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C'est Bon French Restaurant - Cairns  

Dining at C'est Bon French Restaurant is a truly unforgettable dining experience. Join Junelle and the team with Chef Samuel Daquin from Lille in France to savour the mouth watering delights from original classic French dishes. Samuels culinary talen ...

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Cable Ski Cairns - Cairns  

Cable Ski Cairns offers a unique watersport experience for young and old. A man made freshwater lake offers wakeboarding, kneeboarding, and waterskiing for beginners through to advanced riders. An open view terrace with chairs and tables, and a kiosk ...

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Cairns Central Shopping Centre - Cairns  

With over 180 retail outlets spanning the largest shopping precinct in Australia's Tropical North, Cairns Central Shopping Centre really has got it all. Open seven days of the week and located near the Cairns Central Business District, Cairns Central ...

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Cairns Night Zoo - Cairns  

The Cairns Night Zoo - A great Aussie night out! Come and see what the Aussies get up to after dark! This excellent evening activity operates every Monday to Thursday and Saturday night from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. Included in the evening you will enjoy a ...

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Cairns Regional Gallery - Cairns  

Cairns Regional Gallery is Far North Queensland's only visual art museum and in 2005 it celebrates it's 10th Birthday: a decade of documenting and presenting history, heritage and contemporary culture of this vast and distinctive region of Australia ...

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Cairns Tropical Zoo - Cairns  

Cairns Tropical Zoo, on the Captain Cook Highway at Palm Cove - 20 minutes north of Cairns is six hectares of tropically landscaped zoo featuring a natural habitat displaying Australia's unique animals - plus some international tropical animals. You ...

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Cairns Wildlife Dome - Cairns  

The Cairns Wildlife Dome is a spectacular all weather wildlife exhibit encased by a 20-metre high glass dome on the rooftop of the Sofitel Reef Casino Cairns. More than 60 species of magnificent rainforest animals and birds wander and fly freely thro ...

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Cape Melville National Park - Cooktown  

Cape Melville National Park combines massive granite boulders of the Melville Range with sandstone escarpments of the Altanmoui Range and inland dunefields. These features form part of a living, Aboriginal cultural landscape. Bush camp at Bathurst Ba ...

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Carrowong Fauna Sanctuary - Kuranda  

Carrowong Sanctuary is a 90 acre pristine property completely surrounded by World Heritage listed rainforest. This unlogged rainforest gives guests a unique experience to enjoy walking through a pristine area unspoilt by outside interference. They ...

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Cazalys - Cairns  

Cazalys is home of Australian Football in Cairns, their world-class sporting facilities have hosted national AFL games as well as International Cricket Matches and their social club is the home of the best value meals and entertainment in Cairns. Caz ...

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Cedar Bay Track - Cooktown  

Dense tropical rainforest grows in Cedar Bay National Park, a remote coastal park south of Cooktown in the Wet Tropics World Heritage Area. Sandy beaches and fringing reefs are backed by rainforest. Tulip oaks, Daintree pendas, tall rainforest cycads ...

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Centre of Contemporary Arts (CoCA) - Cairns  

The Cairns Centre of Contemporary Arts (CoCA) brings together a variety of exciting art forms under one roof. Resident company, JUTE (Just Us Theatre Ensemble), a professional renowned theatre company presents an annual season of contemporary plays ...

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Chillagoe Hub and Information Centre - Chillagoe  

Chillagoe is the easiest accessible outback experience available within a relatively short distance west of Cairns. It's only about two hours 30 minutes from Cairns and one hour 30 minutes from Mareeba with only 18 kilometres of unsealed road. On app ...

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Chillagoe-Mungana Caves National Park - Chillagoe  

In the Chillagoe-Mungana National Park, dry tropical open woodlands hide underground caves of breathtaking natural beauty. Pockets of deciduous vine thicket cling to jagged limestone outcrops. Laid down 400 million years ago, the limestone has been w ...

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Cobia Hole Dive Site - Cairns  

Located off Lizard Island, on the Great Barrier Reef near Cairns, Cobia Hole is a pinnacle of rocks covered with marine organism including sponges, soft coral, coralliamorpharians, feather stars, sea stars, sea squirts, shrimps, crabs and gobies. Loo ...

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Cod Hole Dive Site - Cairns  

Cod Hole, located on Ribbon Reef no.10 on the Great Barrier Reef, is best accessed from Cairns or Port Douglas. Internationally recognised underwater photographers Ron and Valerie Taylor were the first to publicise this site. Swim with large friendly ...

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Cooktown Scenic Rim Trail - Cooktown  

Cooktown's Scenic Rim Trail displays all aspects of the town's historical and cultural delights. Experience a range of diverse natural habitats, each with their own special features and species. Walk through mangrove lined banks of the Endeavour Riv ...

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Coral Gardens Dive Site, Flynn Reef - Cairns  

Coral Gradens, on the the Great Barrier Reef off Cairns, features a wall that stretches from 5m to the surface along the reef edge, dropping away down 10 to 20m. Superb variety of corals on the plateau and down the slope. Clownfish, batfish, trout, c ...

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Curtain Fig National Park - Yungaburra  

Part of the Wet Tropics World Heritage Area, Curtain Fig National Park contains an endangered type of rainforest called mabi forest. A semi-deciduous canopy allows more sunlight to reach the ground than in other rainforest types. This promotes a well ...

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Curtain Fig Tree - Atherton  

The Curtain Fig National Park contains the renowned Curtain Fig Tree, an enormous strangler fig tree. Located a short drive out of Yungaburra, a small town in the Atherton Tableland, the giant tree has several aerial roots hanging down from its branc ...

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Daintree Discovery Centre - Mossman  

The award winning Daintree Discovery Centre is the number one attraction in the Daintree. It is a self-funding eco tourism facility that specialises in providing interpretive information about the Daintree Rainforest and its environs. Located just 10 ...

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Danbulla National Park and State Forest - Atherton  

Danbulla National Park and State Forest is a spectacular part of the Atherton Tableland, encompassing eucalypt and acacia forests, pine plantations and rainforest; also crater lakes, walks and places of local history and interest. This large park cov ...

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Davies Creek National Park - Mareeba  

In Davies Creek National Park, Davies Creek cascades over huge granite boulders as it flows through eucalypt woodland from its source in the Lamb Range. The rare wet sclerophyll forest is home to the endangered northern bettong: a small marsupial fou ...

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de Brueys Boutique Wines - Mareeba  

Try deliciously different mango wine and tropical fruit wines, liqueurs and ports at de Brueys Boutique Wines, 189 Fichera Road, Mareeba, Queensland. de Brueys Boutique Wines is a unique winery and cellar door set amidst mango orchards and natural bu ...

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Des Spencer Galleries - Cairns  

Des Spencer Galleries are located on the Esplanade in Palm Cove and at the Sheraton Mirage, Port Douglas in Tropical North Queensland. The galleries exclusively feature fine art by Des Spencer. Des is renowned for his vivid, vivacious images of the w ...

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Douglas Track - Cairns  

Barron Gorge is the traditional home of the Djabaguy people who have many special connections to this place. The Douglas and Smiths tracks, traditional pathways for the Djabaguy for thousands of years, became the first pack routes linking the hinter ...

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Dundees Restaurant On The Waterfront - Cairns  

Dundee’s Restaurant captures the three ingredients of success at its best. Great Food, Great Location and Perfect Ambience. Locals can share in this magical location seven days a week, sharing an early sunrise over a sumptuous breakfast to the buz ...

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Ellinjaa Falls - Millaa Millaa  

Ellinjaa Falls are picturesque falls that are part of the Waterfalls Circuit along with Millaa Millaa and Zilzie Falls. Enjoy the sound of the water rushing over a series of lava columns as you have a picnic lunch. There's a 200 metre walkway to the ...

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Emerald Creek Falls - Mareeba  

Emerald creek has a series of cascading waterfalls over granite boulders. A walking track takes you alongside the creek to the numerous falls and lagoons, up to the lookout with views of the valley towards Mareeba. The site is an ideal picnic spot an ...

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Emerald Creek Falls, Dinden State Forest - Atherton  

At Emerald Creek Falls, Dinden State Forest, the waters of Emerald Creek tumble down a granite rock face, forming placid pools below. Smooth-barked water gums with graphically twisted trunks create a natural arch above the creek. Bottlebrush trees, w ...

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Eubenangee Swamp National Park - Miriwinni  

Eubenagee Swamp National Park’s wetlands are a significant habitat for waterbirds. The park also protects some of the last remnants of various lowland vegetation types. Much of it is swampland, supporting paperbarks, waterbirds and crocodiles. The ...

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Fascinating Facets and The Crystal Caves - Atherton  

The Crystal Caves are a mineralogical museum in a fantasyland cave. Put on a miner's helmet and discover some of the world's most beautiful natural crystals, real fossils, and best of all the world's largest amethyst geode standing more than three me ...

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Fish Bowl Dive Site - Cairns  

Hastings Reef in the Great Barrier Reef off Cairns is a large, popular diving and snorkelling reef and home to the "Fish Bowl". This site offers great protection from the prevailing South Easterly winds, which provides consistent diving and snorkelli ...

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editors picks

Explore Robe, South Australia

gfitter | 2008-08-21 | Whilst enduring my hectic pace of life in Melbourne, Australia, there is always a place of relaxation in my mind when I recall my times spent exploring the Limestone Coast, South Australia. | read more

Explore Hobart Tasmania with Max Walker

maxwalker | 2008-10-30 | Despite a life rich in experience, I am still, will always be … a slow talking Tasmanian, with the legacy of 5 broken noses from playing football. | read more

Is Melbourne the latte capital of Australia?

miekecasanova | 2008-09-23 | I have to accept that to start my day with a kick, I need that expresso coffee that Melbourne is famous for. | read more

The Mornington Peninsula (Vic)

mwheeler | 2008-08-13 | Mornington Peninsula (Vic) a kaleidoscope of activities only 60 minutes from Melbourne | read more

Cradle Mountain

naturalwanders | 2008-09-08 | One can fly into Launceston or Devonport, hire a car, and drive to the Cradle Mountain end of Cradle Mountain-Lake St.Clair National Park. | read more

Shark Bay World Heritage Region, Western Australia

naturalwanders | 2008-09-17 | Just past the Overlander Roadhouse is the turn-off for Shark Bay. Shark Bay is a World Heritage area, and the first place to stop is at Hamelin Pool to see the Stromatolites. | read more

Shelter from the rain

DaanSpijer | 2008-09-22 | An impending storm, an invitation to shelter in a guest-house and the unexpected consequences. | read more

Eumundi Market

Emma | 2008-09-05 | Eumundi Markets are in Southern Queensland (Sunshine Coast) and are a short drive from the popular tourist destinations; Noosa, and Maroochydore. | read more

Whale Watching in Hervey Bay near Fraser Island, Queensland

Kristy79 | 2008-09-02 | Whale Watching in the pristine waters of Hervey Bay with the magnificent backdrop of Fraser Island. | read more

The Saga of the Randy Old Goat

barnesbay | 2008-10-16 | On a balmy Autumn afternoon in early May 1997, I was enjoying a relaxing game on the computer, when the phone rang.... | read more

 

 

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