Destination

Cardwell lies in the heart of the Great Green Way driving route, and is the gateway to Hinchinbrook Island – the largest Island National Park in Australia. Made up of a diverse range of landscapes, Cardwell is the perfect place to relax or be adventurous. Settled in 1864, Cardwell was the ...

140 kilometres west of Mareeba, the former mining town of Chillagoe is one of the favoured haunts of mining buffs tracing the heady days of the 1870’s to the 1920’s mining boom. The town is a stunning mix of outback landscape, mining heritage, aboriginal art sites and fantastic limestone caves ...

There's plenty of life in the old mining community of Coen. Originally the town was created around a repeater station in the Overland Telegraph Line to the Tip of Cape York Peninsula. Camp on the town's outskirts in a bush camping ground at The Bend on Coen river - you will appreciate the beauty of ...

Historic Cooktown became a thriving port during the gold rush era after it was discovered by Captain James Cook when the HMS Endeavour hit a reef in 1770. Hardened, pioneering characters and years of geographic isolation have added to the frontier town's unique character which continues to charm ...

Cow Bay is the perfect gateway to the Cape Tribulation area, the World-Heritage listed Daintree National Park, the Great Barrier Reef and Cooktown in Tropical North Queensland - only two hours drive north of Cairns. Stay the night or drop in for a traditional counter lunch at the Cow Bay Pub where ...

The Gulflander is an historic railway link established in the 1800s to service Croydon, which was then a booming gold town (it boasted 19 hotels in its heyday - of which only one remains). The rail link connects with Normanton - which was the area's port before to the establishment of Karumba ...

Stretching from Daintree Village across the river, the Daintree encompasses Cape Kimberley, Cow Bay, Thornton's Peak, Cooper Creek, Thornton Beach, Noah Valley, Cape Tribulation and the Bloomfield Track to the north. This is the home of the world's oldest surviving rainforest with examples of plant ...

Dimbulah gives access to the historic Hodgkinson Goldfield. Tyrconnell, Kingsborough and Mt Mulligan were towns which developed around crushing mills along the Hodgkinson River. By 1880, four years after the discovery of minerals, the population in this area reached nearly 10,000 with ...

Doomadgee offers a good service point on the Savannah way west of Burketown (138 kilometres from the Northern Territory border). This community was originally established near Point Parker by the Brethren sect as a mission and later moved south to its present location close to the Nicholson ...

Just off the coast of Palm Cove, Double Island is an exclusive island getaway. Privately owned and operated, Double Island can only be hired on a whole-of-island basis. Enjoy the idyllic location close to the Great Barrier Reef and the tranquilly of this tropical paradise. Gather a group of ...