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January 10th, 2012 | 
Author: It’s the end of a long week and you have some serious unwinding to do. You could do this in the comfort of your own home … or you could treat yourself to a fabulously glam weekend away at Port Douglas like we did.
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While the heat and humidity in Cairns were making most locals feel lethargic and irritable, we were feeling fresh and alive while enjoying the cool breezes at our secluded retreat at Lake Tinaroo. <br>
"OK, there was this astronomer, a scientist and a…" It was a joke made in self-deprecating sweetness.
Allow me to share my guilty secret – I really love Cairns Esplanade.
Overseas visitors are amazed at the amount of lifers they can see in an hour here, David "Chook" Crawford, our morning birding guide, tells us.
I had only one issue following my first skydiving experience: how do you go back to normal life after you’ve jumped out of a plane?
Heaven on earth can be found tucked away in the Atherthon Tableland hilltops.
This year on June 25th, the original Kuranda Scenic Railway celebrates 120 years since the first passenger service from Cairns to Kuranda; village in the rainforest.
Is there anything more romantic than train travel? Moving into undiscovered country on rails remains one of the great relaxing thrills of our age. And visitors to Far North Queensland can enjoy one of Australia’s most spectacular railway journeys aboard the classic 1960s Savannahlander train.
It doesn’t really get much better than this when it comes to a day of adventure on the Great Barrier Reef.