Cairns

It doesn’t cost a lot of money to snorkel the Great Barrier Reef, but it is surely something that everyone should do at least once in their lifetime. From as far south as Lady Musgrave Island, to the deep blue  waters of the Whitsundays and far north area of the Great Barrier Reef off Cairns [...]

People living in North Queensland understand the threat of saltwater crocodiles lurking around estuaries and mangrove lined creeks. Crocodiles are a real threat from about Rockhampton north, with the further north that you go the more danger that exists. Luckily most of us are sensible enough to be wary of areas that may be good [...]

There are times when visiting a zoo will be your only feasible opportunity to see some of the worlds rarest animals. When we recently visited Cairns Tropical Zoo, we were fortunate enough to see a Southern Hairy Nosed Wombat awake and moving about his enclosure. I say we were fortunate for several reasons. Firstly wombats are nocturnal [...]