This huge, dramatically beautiful region extends from its temperate border with New South Wales up into the tropical north, much of it still barely explored or settled. Most of the state’s great attractions are up along the coast: the huge Daintree Rainforest, the Outback oases of the Atherton Tablelands and the kaleidoscopic colours of the Great Barrier Reef.
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Queensland & the Great Barrier Reef
Brisbane is the place of week-round ‘sun-days’ and boasts great weather, exciting sporting events, a thriving arts and cultural scene and casual, yet sophisticated dining.
The Daintree forest is an environmental jewel that dates back 100 million years and stretches through Cape Tribulation, an area of breathtakingly-beautiful rugged mountain ranges and rainforest that tumbles down to the beach.
Fraser island is awash with colour; blinding white sand flanks the milky turquoise and inky blue-black lakes, the dense green centre contrasting wonderfully.
Port Douglas is 47 miles north of Cairns and is a bustling port popular with tourists that has managed to retain its village atmosphere from its days as a tiny fishing village.
Sweeping from Lady Elliott in the south to beyond Haggerstone Island in the north are the islands of the Great Barrier Reef. Some are tiny specks, others little more than sandy cay swirls, crowded with seabirds, whilst several are densely vegetated and encased in rock.
Some 74 islands make up the Whitsunday Islands and each coral-fringed island has its own individual appeal. Many are uninhabited and are listed as national parks, however, a handful have resorts that offer a multitude of accommodation choices from budget to five-star luxury