Queensland
Incorporates Savannah Way, Kuranda, Lawn Hill, Agnes Water, Seventeen Seventy, Birdsville, Cairns. Cape York Peninsula is categorized separately.
Heron Island
One of the older galleries on this website, but a beautiful tiny island off the central coast of Queensland, then with only a small resort and diving equipment rental, and an island you could walk around in 30 minutes. Heron Island is a coral cay located near the Tropic of Capricorn in the southern Great Barrier Reef, 80 kilometres north-east of Gladstone, Queensland. (Followed by a whale watching tour at Hervey Bay on the way back.)
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Undara
Undara Volcanic National Park is situated along the Savannah Way near Mount Surprise. It is a commercial enterprise, which I don't normally include, but because of its uniqueness, I believe it should be included. This is the site of the Undara Lava Tubes, created 190,000 years ago and one of the longest in the world.
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Cobbold Gorge
A now commercial enterprise on Robin Hood Station along the Savannah Way south of Georgetown. I don't normally include anything of a commercial nature, but the beauty of the environment prompted me make an exception.
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Cairns and surrounds
Cairns is located in the tropical far north of Australia on the east coast, and is a thriving tourist destination and a setting off point for the Great Barrier Reef, the Daintree River and The Tablelands, and was my home for five years.
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Fitzroy Island
Beautiful Nudey Beach on Fitzroy Island is a beautiful pristine inlet reached via a rocky one kilometre walk through the rainforest from the resort. Once viewed as "clothing optional" it been declared 'no go' for nudists following the redevelopment of the Island by its new owner as a family resort. When I was there in 2011 there was certainly one person seeking to make her point.
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Green Island
Green Island is a popular small island approximately one and a half hours by catamaran out of Cairns. You can circumnavigate the island in about 40 minutes. I find the best way to experience Green Island is to stay overnight at their secluded resort, as the tourist boats leave mid afternoon, and you are left on the island to enjoy the early evening and early morning.
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Mission Beach
Mission Beach is approximately 2 hours drive south of Cairns, and is a popular tourist destination with beautiful beaches. I am captivated by the moods of the beach created by the tropical weather. The heritage listed Rainforest meets the Coral Sea here.
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Wongaling Beach
One of the beautiful beaches in the Mission Beach area. Dunk Island can be accessed from here via water taxi.
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Granite Gorge Nature Park
Situated in the Tablelands of Far North Queensland, Granite Gorge Nature Park is a privately owned venture therefore I have included only peripheral images from the campground area.
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Seventeen Seventy or 1770
The twin towns of Agnes Water and Seventeen Seventy are located mid way between Gladstone and Bundaberg. 1770 is so named after the bi-centenary of the second landing of Lt James Cook in 1770. A re-enactment of the landing happens each May.
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Barron Falls
The Barron Falls is a steep tiered cascade waterfall on the Barron River located where the river descends from the Atherton Tablelands to the Cairns coastal plain, in Queensland. It is located just out of Kuranda in The Tablelands of Far North Queensland. It is a stopping point for the Kuranda Railway tourist train from Cairns, or can be reached by road.
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Karumba
Karumba is located on the north central Queensland coast, on the Gulf of Carpentaria. Karumba is only accessible by road by diverting from the Savannah Way at Normanton and travelling 71 kilometres to Karumba .
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Birdsville
Birdsville is a remote small town located in the Channel Country of Central West Queensland on the edge of the Simpson Desert. Population averages around 100, until the annual Birdsville Races, when it swells to around 7,000. Many visitors fly in to the small airstrip in light planes.
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Far North Savannah Way
The Savannah Way is a route of highways and major roads across the tropical savannahs of northern Australia, linking Cairns in Queensland with Broome in Western Australia.
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Lawn HIll National Park
Now known as Boodjamulla National Park Lawn Hill is labelled "The Jewel of the North" by Queenslanders. It is a remote area located in the far north west corner of the State and access is by 4WD.
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Porcupine Gorge
Porcupine Gorge is on Galah Creek in Porcupine Gorge National Park, North West Queensland. Access to the gorge and national park is via the Kennedy Development Road out from Hughenden or south from The Lynd Junction. The gorge features strata of sedimentary rocks which span hundreds of millions of years.
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Agnes Water
The Twin towns of Agnes Water and Seventeen Seventy are two as yet under developed towns between Bundaberg and Gladstone on the mid east coast of Australia. Round Hill was built on the site of Captain Cook's second landing in 1770 and the name was changed to Seventeen Seventy on the bicentenary of the event. 1770 images have been saved to a separate gallery due to the number of images of this area, many of which have been taken as recently as December 2015.
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