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Tropical North QLD Attractions
 

Tropical North Queensland hosts an abundance of natural attractions. From the meeting of two World heritage listed sites – the Daintree Rainforest and Great Barrier Reef, to the action and adventure pursuits of bike-riding, bungy jumping, white water rafting and diving right on the doorstep of the north’s major regional towns of Port Douglas, Palm Cove and Cairns.
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Port Douglas Attractions

2 Fish Seafood Restaurant

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. more...

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Snorkelling with schooling snapper, Great Barrier Reef

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 G more...

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Australian and Oceanic Art Gallery

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 Oc more...

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Snorkelling, Queensland

Raine Island - Port Douglas

Raine Island, located off Port Douglas on the Great Barrier Reef, has the greatest number of nesting Green Turtles in the world. Each summer tens of thousands arrive to mate and nest. The northern dro more...

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Salsa Bar and Grill

Salsa Bar and Grill - Port Douglas

The Salsa Bar and Grill Restaurant specialises in modern tropical cuisine and tasty dishes which include salsa seafood curry, yellow fin tuna tartar with sumac fetta, sand crab and herb salad and pick more...

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Links Golf Club Port Douglas

Sea Temple Golf and Country Club - Port Douglas

Sea Temple Golf and Country Club, Port Douglas is situated at the entrance to Port Douglas, a unique tropical resort village 65 kilometres north of Cairns, international gateway to the Tropical North more...

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Snorkelling, Great Barrier Reef

Split Bommie - Port Douglas

Split Bommie, off Port Douglas o the Great Barrier Reef, has an array of colourful marine life from colourful flat worms and Nudibranchs to sleepy turtles and hungry hump headed parrot fish, putting o more...

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Rainforest Habitat Wildlife Sanctuary

The Rainforest Habitat Wildlife Sanctuary - Port Douglas

The Rainforest Habitat Wildlife Sanctuary is Australia's leading environmental wildlife experience. They were the winner of the Tropical North Queensland Significant Tourist Attraction 2001 and 2002, more...

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Scuba Diving, Great Barrier Reef

Tijou Reef - Port Douglas

Located off Port Douglas on the Great Barrier Reef is Tijou Reef, home to many different dive sites, particularly the coral gardens on the inner side and wonderful wall dives on its outer eastern side more...

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Wellness @ Port

Wellness @ Port - Port Douglas

Wellness@Port, the newest creation of Mind and Motion® Spas, is located in the heart of Port Douglas. This new day spa embedded in tropical paradise offers a wide range of spa experiences. The desig more...

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Snapper Island, Hope Islands National Park - Port Douglas

Lush vine forest, dense eucalypt forest and white sandy beaches feature on this island. Surrounding waters and reefs are protected in the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park and World Heritage area. The pa more...

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Cairns Attractions

Buckin Mex

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 more...

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C'est Bon French Restaurant

C'est Bon French Restaurant - Cairns

Dining at C'est Bon French Restaurant is a truly unforgettable dining experience. Join Junelle and chef Nicolas (straight from the kitchen of Alain Ducasse, Paris) to savour the mouth watering delight more...

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Cable Ski Cairns

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 ope more...

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Cairns Central Shopping Centre

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 is located nea more...

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Cairns Night Zoo

Cairns Night Zoo - Cairns

The Cairns Night Zoo - A great Aussie night out! 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 more...

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Cairns Regional Gallery entrance

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 more...

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Cairns Tropical Zoo

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 animal more...

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Cairns Wildlife Dome

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 prominent Sofitel Reef Casino Cairns. More than 60 species of magnifi more...

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Centre of Contemporary Arts

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 compa more...

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Clown Fish, Great Barrier Reef

Cobia Hole - 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 more...

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Diving with Maori Wrasse, Queensland

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 firs more...

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Doongal Aboriginal Art and Artefacts

Doongal Aboriginal Art and Artefacts Cairns - Cairns

Doongal Aboriginal Art has three stores, two in Kuranda and one located on the Esplanade in Cairns, showcasing the largest and finest collection of investment art from Central Australian. Artists incl more...

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Diving with schooling Snapper, Queensland

Great Detached Reef Dive Site - Cairns

Located off Cairns on the Great Barrier Reef, the Great Detached Reef is a large complex of several reefs on an older fossil surface. This reef has about 46km of edge. Wall diving and very steep down more...

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Green Island, Tropical North Queensland

Green Island Fringing Reefs - Cairns

Green Island, located off Cairns on the Great Barrier Reef, is a true coral island surrounded by sandy beaches and a huge coral reef system. 4m above sea level, 606 metres long, 200 metres wide and ha more...

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Hartley's Crocodile Adventures

Hartley's Crocodile Adventures - Cairns

Situated on the magnificent coastal drive between the popular destinations of Palm Cove and Port Douglas, Hartley's Crocodile Adventures is the best place to see crocodiles and native wildlife in Trop more...

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Kuranda Scenic Railway - Stoney Creek Falls

Kuranda Scenic Railway - Cairns

The original Kuranda Scenic Railway is a spectacular journey comprising unsurpassed views of dense rainforest, steep ravines and picturesque waterfalls. This famous railway winds its way on a journey more...

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Couple snorkelling on the Great Barrier Reef

Northern Great Barrier Reef - Cairns

Cairns and Tropical North Queensland is the closest point in Australia to experience the Great Barrier Reef. When travellers visualise themselves on the Great Barrier Reef - they think of Tropical No more...

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Nu Nu Restaurant

Nu Nu Restaurant - Cairns

The menus at Nu Nu offer an eclectic mix of Australian food inspired by world travels and the multicultural Australian Community. Their commitment to using local and where possible, organic produce, e more...

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Scuba Diving, Queensland

Osprey Reef - Cairns

Osprey Reef is one of the most spectacular dive sites in the world, located off Cairns in the Coral Sea. The North Horn site on the reef is a remote sea mount rising 1000 m from the ocean floor. Ther more...

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Club House

Paradise Palms Country Club - Cairns

Paradise Palms Country Club is continually ranked among the best and most challenging of Australia's championship resort golf courses - the reason is a combination of the sweeping fairways, snaking cr more...

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Diving with schooling Snapper, Great Barrier Reef

Pixie Pinnacle Dive Site - Cairns

On the Great Barrier Reef off Cairns, rising 30m and about 15m across, Pixie Pinnacles is a huge cone shaped 'pyramid' that is covered in corals hard and soft, gorgonians, sea whips and sponges. Under more...

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Red Ochre Grill - Cairns

Red Ochre Grill - Cairns

The Red Ochre Grill Restaurant has created a whole new Australian Cuisine, combining indigenous fruits, berries and game meats with premium regional produce, beef, poultry and seafood. The menu change more...

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Royal Flying Doctor Service Visitor Centre Cairns

Royal Flying Doctor Service Visitors Centre - Cairns

The Royal Flying Doctor Service Visitors Centre is a unique Australian experience. You will be able to view, a film called “A day in the life of the Flying Doctor", a Traeger pedal radio, a “Queenair” more...

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Skyrail Rainforest Cableway

Skyrail Rainforest Cableway - Cairns

Skyrail Rainforest Cableway is a unique rainforest experience taking you on an unforgettable journey over Australia's World Heritage protected Tropical Rainforests. Spanning seven and a half kilomet more...

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Soft and hard coral, Great Barrier Reef

Southern Small Detached Reef - Cairns

Divers will see turtles, reef sharks, eagle rays, pelagic fish and occasional manta rays cruising the walls which encircle Southern Small Detached Reef, located off Cairns on the Great Barrier Reef. T more...

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Splash Seafood Restaurant

Splash Seafood Restaurant - Cairns

Splash Seafood Restaurant is the best place to enjoy the bounty of the sea is by the sea. Splash Seafood Restaurant, one of the finest Cairns Seafood Restaurants, is the perfect place to enjoy the de more...

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Coral, Great Barrier Reef

Steve's Bommie - Cairns

Located off Cairns on the Great Barrier Reef, an isolated pinnacle known as Steve's Bommie attracts schools of bigeye trevally, barracuda, blue-lined snapper and moses perch. Macro photographers love more...

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The Reef Hotel Casino

The Reef Hotel Casino - Cairns

The Reef Hotel Casino is Cairns' premier entertainment centre. This uniquely designed building features Australia's finest boutique casino, an extensive range of restaurants and bars, cabaret show and more...

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Snorkelling, Great Barrier Reef

The Whale Dive Site - Cairns

The Whale, located off Cairns on the Great Barrier Reef, is a large isolated coral bommie with abundant marine life. On a low tide, waves break at the top creating a plume of water similar to a whale' more...

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Clown fish, Great Barrier Reef

Thetford Reef Dive Site - Cairns

Thetford Reef, off Cairns on the Great Barrier Reef, is almost 2 kilometres long with scattered coral heads, sandy floor in-between and lots of swim-throughs. Look for giant clams, butterflyfish, rabb more...

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Tjapukai

Tjapukai Aboriginal Cultural Park - Cairns

Tjapukai Aboriginal Cultural Park is Australia's most awarded attraction and the only Aboriginal experience providing a direct benefit to the local Aboriginal People. Situated on 25 acres of land nort more...

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Toscani's Cafe Bar and Restaurant Cairns

Toscani's Cafe Bar and Restaurant Cairns - Cairns

Toscani's Cafe Bar and Restaurant provides a unique casual dining experience and is the perfect place to enjoy tantalising Italian and Mediterranean influenced food, delicious coffee and cakes and sup more...

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Scuba diving with Maori Wrasse

Turtle Bay Dive Site - Cairns

At Turtle Bay, off cairns on the Great Barrier Reef, you can come face to face with 'Killer' a giant 35kg Maori Wrasse who expects the Divemaster to feed him. See 'Dopey' the resident turtle, a giant more...

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Verdi's Licensed Italian Restaurant

Verdi's Licensed Italian Restaurant - Cairns

Verdi's Licensed Italian Restaurant has been popular with locals and visitors for 15 years, offering indoor and al fresco dining. Renowned for its food, service and fun-loving staff, they specialise i more...

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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 more...

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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 more...

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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 Bell more...

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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 ar more...

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Cafe China - Cairns

Café China was born in 1996. An award-winning and internationally acclaimed restaurant, known for its authentic Peking and Hong Kong cuisine, yum cha, seafood and noodle artistry. Great tasting and s more...

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Cairns Golf Club - Cairns

The Cairns Golf Club has an 18 hole golf course with full amenities available from the professional shop including hire equipment. The air-conditioned Clubhouse has facilities which are available to more...

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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 more...

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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 platea more...

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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 yea more...

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Fish Bowl - 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 win more...

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Fitzroy Island Summit Circuit - Cairns

This walk in Fitzroy Island National Park travels through rainforest and open woodland, on route to a disused, wartime lighthouse. At the lighthouse, interpretational signage describes how the lightho more...

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Flecker Botanic Gardens - Cairns

Welcome to Flecker Botanic Gardens, the only wet tropic botanic gardens in Australia. At Flecker Botanic Gardens, the collections reflect their tropical diversity, with plants from the steamy jungles more...

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Flinders Group National Park - Cairns

Seven remote and ruggedly attractive islands, with a rich cultural landscape, lie in this park. The islands contain important Aboriginal story and burial sites, along with nationally significant rock more...

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Frankland Group National Park - Cairns

These five islands are popular for their relatively untouched rainforest, mangroves and surrounding reefs. A colony of spectacled flying-foxes roosts on Russell Island, while manta rays and sea turtle more...

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Goldfield Track - Cairns

The Goldfield Track in Wooroonooran National Park leaves Babinda Boulder and makes its way over the saddle between Mount Bellenden Ker and Mount Batle Frere, the two tallest mountains in Queensland, t more...

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Half Moon Bay Golf Club - Cairns

A tight par 70 all-weather-course overlooking the Coral Sea, Half Moon Bay Golf Club features sweeping views looking west to the rainforest clad mountain ranges behind Cairns. It is an easy 20 minute more...

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Iron Range National Park - Cairns

This remote coastal park in northern Cape York Peninsula protects the largest area of lowland tropical rainforest in Australia. Rainforest, eucalypt and paperbark forests and heath-shrouded hills prov more...

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Jamaica Blue Cairns Central - Cairns

Jamaica Blue offers a contemporary cafe experience with locations ranging from espresso bars to cafe restaurants, providing a diverse range of light meals as well as Jamaica Blue's distinctive blend o more...

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Jardine River National Park and Heathlands Resources Reserve - Cairns

This true wilderness at the tip of remote Cape York Peninsula includes much of the catchment of the Jardine River, Queensland’s largest perennial river. Heath, rainforest and woodland cover low sandy more...

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Josephine Falls Circuit - Cairns

Josephine Creek begins as a trickle high on the south-east side of the summit of Mt Bartle Frere, Queensland's highest mountain. Approximately 7.5 kilometres from the summit of Mt Bartle Frere the wat more...

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Kauri Creek Circuit - Cairns

This walking track in Danbulla State Forest and Forest Reserve follows the creek to Danbulla Drive and the Day Use area by the road. You can walk from here too. The walk continues upstream past pine more...

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Michaelmas and Upolo Cays National Park - Cairns

Michaelmas Cay, one of the most important seabird breeding sites on the Great Barrier Reef, is a small, low sand cay, covered by grasses and low-growing plants. Upolu Cay is a low, unvegetated sand ca more...

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Michaelmas Cay Dive Site - Cairns

Michaelmas Cay, on the Great Barrier Reef off Cairns, is 10km long reef with a sand cay. Explore the bommies, walls, swim-throughs, gullies, small caves and overhangs. See Giant clams, blue-spotted ra more...

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Moore Reef Dive Site - Cairns

At Moore Reef, on the Great Barrier Reef off Cairns, you can dive over staghorn thickets on sand that slopes and drops to 22m. Explore around the bommies or stay close to the reef edge. There is an ab more...

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Mount Whitfield Conservation Park - Cairns

The rainforested slopes of the Whitfield Range protect the closest rainforest to Cairns and form the city’s backdrop. Walking tracks climb through shady rainforest gullies and dry open forest and gras more...

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Nandroya Falls Circuit - Cairns

Nandroya Falls Circuit is part of a network of walks in the Palmerston section of Wooroonooran National Park. Wooroonooran National Park is an integral part of the Wet Tropics World Heritage Area. Its more...

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Norman Reef Dive Site - Cairns

Off Cairns on the Great barrier Reef lies Norman Reef, where Maori Wrasse, moray eels, giant clams, anemones and their commensals are permanent features. Large bommies, staghorn thickets and hillocks more...

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Normanby Reef - Cairns

Normanby Reef is located in the Frankland Islands on the Great barrier Reef, a group of relatively untouched national parks about 12 km off the coast near Cairns. They are a group of continental islan more...

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Outback Opal Mine - Cairns

To start your free visit to the Outback Opal Mine why not view the interesting eight minute documentary available in English, Japanese and German. Then take a walk through the simulated Opal mine to s more...

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Peter Lik Gallery - Cairns

The Peter Lik Gallery Cairns is the flagship gallery of Australia’s most innovative and prolific landscape photographer. Specialising in the sale of limited edition llfochromes (high quality hand prin more...

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Rainforest Circuit Track - Cairns

This walk, also known as the Rex Creek Circuit, is in the Mossman Gorge section of Daintree National Park, which is part of the Wet Tropics World Heritage Area. Along this circuit there are views of M more...

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Smiths Track - Cairns

Barron Gorge National Park is the traditional home of the Djabaguy people who have many special connections to this place. Smiths Track runs between Speewah on the Tableland and Kamerunga nearer the c more...

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The Three Sisters Dive Site - Cairns

The Three Sisters, located off Cairns on the Great Barrier Reef, is a series of three large bommies. The first "Gorgonian Gorge"; the second and third sisters rise to within 1m of the surface and the more...

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Undara Volcanic National Park - Cairns

Ribbons of emerald green vine thicket contrast with surrounding dry savanna woodland to mark the courses of some of the world’s longest lava tubes. Up to 45 kilometres in length, these enormous, hollo more...

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Palm Cove Attractions

Cairns Night Zoo

Cairns Night Zoo - Palm Cove

The Cairns Night Zoo - A great Aussie night out! 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 more...

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Cairns Tropical Zoo

Cairns Tropical Zoo - Palm Cove

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 animal more...

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Hartley's Crocodile Adventures

Hartley's Crocodile Adventures - Palm Cove

Situated on the magnificent coastal drive between the popular destinations of Palm Cove and Port Douglas, Hartley's Crocodile Adventures is the best place to see crocodiles and native wildlife in Trop more...

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Nu Nu Restaurant

Nu Nu Restaurant - Palm Cove

The menus at Nu Nu offer an eclectic mix of Australian food inspired by world travels and the multicultural Australian Community. Their commitment to using local and where possible, organic produce, e more...

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