The oldest tropical rainforest in the world, part of the Wet Tropics UNESCO site, where the rainforest meets the reef at Cape Tribulation. Take a river cruise to see crocodiles, and walk boardwalks at Mossman Gorge with Aboriginal guides.
Cross the Daintree River by cable ferry. Don't swim in rivers or the sea (crocodiles, stingers).
The world's largest coral reef system, a UNESCO site, stretching 2,300 km.
A 7 km beach of brilliant white silica sand on Whitsunday Island, with swirling sand and water patterns at Hill Inlet seen from the lookout.
A rainforest gorge in Eungella National Park with boulders, waterfalls and clear swimming holes.
Eungella ('land of cloud') is a high plateau of misty subtropical rainforest west of Mackay, and Broken River is one of the best places in Australia …
In Cape Hillsborough National Park, north of Mackay, wallabies and kangaroos come down to the beach at dawn to feed on seed pods and mangrove leaves …
A small national park in the hills inland from Bundaberg, protecting one of the largest remaining patches of dry vine scrub (dry rainforest) in Queen…
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