Last Updated: October 2026 Tropical North Queensland is one of Australia’s most beautiful regions, with ancient rainforests, palm-fringed beaches, spectacular waterfalls and, of course, the world-famous Great Barrier Reef. From the laid-back coastal towns of Palm Cove and Port Douglas to the lush rainforest surrounding Kuranda, there’s so much to discover...
Last Updated: October 2026 On our recent trip to tropical North Queensland, there were two things we knew we had to do. The first was to revisit the Great Barrier Reef. That’s a no-brainer, you can’t head up there and not go snorkelling on the reef. But many people had also suggested taking the Skyrail over the rainforest to the quaint little town of Kuranda...
2017 has been a great year for us. We’ve maxed out our holidays, taking three international trips and several long weekends away within Australia. It’s been a blast! So it wasn’t very hard to put together our top ten list of experiences for the year. Taking a boat right up close to an active lava flow in the Big Island, Hawaii One of the best ways to experience the...
Last Updated: October 2026 Living in Australia, we’re incredibly lucky to have the Great Barrier Reef right on our doorstep. Yet, like many people, we often spend more time exploring overseas destinations than our own beautiful country. When we first visited Heron Island, it had been fourteen years since I’d last experienced the Great Barrier Reef. We...
I visit the Gold Coast regularly as my friend lives there. On my last visit, we both decided to visit Moreton Island as neither of us had been there before. We booked an organised day trip with the Scenic Day Tour Group. Moreton Island is about sixty kilometres north-east of Brisbane. It is a popular day tour from both Brisbane and the Gold Coast. A bus picked us up...