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Mt Zero-Taravale & Star River Area

Mount Zero-Taravale Mt Zero-Tarvale Nature Reserve is home to many beautiful gorges and creeks. Previously it was two seperate cattle stations which was purchase by a privately own nature sanctuary. Home to trees

North Queensland

Running River and Tributaries

Puzzle Creek & Deception Creek flow into Running River which combines with Star River that contribute sizable proportions of flow in the Burdekin River. Not far away from this area is Paluma Range

Hinchinbrook Island National Park

Mt Bowen, Hinchinbrook Island

Hinchinbrook Island welcomes climbers with driving rain and cold mist. The island lies just a mile off the Queensland coast, not far from Cardwell and Lucinda, but it could well be another lost world.

Paluma Range National Park

Rock hopping up Cloudy Creek

You may well have heard of Cloudy Creek, hell you may have even walk down into Cloudy Creek before from Paluma village, but have walk up from Crystal Creek? This trip will take

Bowling Green Bay National Park

How to find Hidden Falls, Bowling Green Bay National Park

One of the three points of interest next to Palm Creek, this water falls is truly hidden away far up the creek beds. It invloves a lot of rock hopping up the creek.

Bowling Green Bay National Park

The Cascades, Bowling Green Bay National Park

This is one of the classic Palm Creek walks featureing a massive cliff where the water cascades down the face of it. The other two points of interest are Hidden Falls and The

Bowling Green Bay National Park

The Terraces, Bowling Green Bay National Park

The Terraces is another wonder of the Palm Creek area, arguably the better of the three to see. The other two points of interest are Hidden Falls and The Cascades. Photo Credit Keith

North Queensland

How to get to Valley of Lagoons (Reedybrook Station)

Reedybrook Station is located in North Queensland, Australia and is often referred to as the Valley of Lagoons; not to be confused with the Valley of Lagoons Station. Valley of Lagoons Station itself

Paluma Range National Park

Bluewater Range Track to Paluma Village hike

Paluma Range National Park has much to offer for adventurers like myself. This time the idea was to hike along the old Bluewater Forestry Road to the Paluma township. On the south side

Mount Elliot

How to summit Mt Elliot

The Bowling Green National Park (Near Townsville) is a southern outlier of the Wet Tropics bioregion and has rainforest growing at its summit as well as along the various creeks. Hiking to the

Girraween National Park

The best walks in Girraween National Park

How to spend your days at Girraween National Park Girraween National Park is in the granite belt region and is only a short drive from Main Range National Park. There are lots of

Main Range National Park

How to spend two days in Main Range National Park

It's hard to pass up any places while being on a roadtrip and so we stopped at Main Range National Park. There is a lot to do in and around this National Park,

Bunya Mountains National Park

Why you should get up early to see the Bunya Mountains

The Bunya Mountains are just a short drive from Brisbane and still feel like a world away. Since we planned on seeing the fireworks for New Year's Eve in Brisbane but did not

Carnarvon National Park

Exploring Carnarvon Gorge, Carnarvon National Park

Our decision to go to Carnarvon Gorge was a fairly spontaneous one, as we hadn't found the time to plan our road trip before we left - we just had a rough idea

Jourama Falls

Jourama Falls II - Impressions

Since Jourama Falls is Luen's favourite place, we had to go at least one last time before leaving for our roadtrip down south. Also Luen had not been up at the top of

Magnetic Island

How to spend a perfect day on Maggie

Finally! Ever since I've seen the pink topless cars overtaking me effortlessly while I struggled riding my bike up the hill on Magnetic Island, I wanted to once be the person in the

Paluma Range National Park

A surprise weekend in Paluma

Last Saturday we went up to Paluma. We explored little Crystal Creek for a little bit, went to the Town of Paluma and then, equipped with our sleeping bags, went for the surprise

Paluma Range National Park

Paluma Dam to Jourama Falls hike

My favorite place in Queensland has to be at the top of Jourama Falls. It has an amazing view, fresh air, and a spa bath overlooking the ocean!

Magnetic Island

Exploring Magnetic Island by Boat

On Saturday we started early (7 am) at the boat ramp in Townsville to spend a day on the water. Luen's friend, Daniel, owns a boat and invited us out. The water was

Far North Queensland

6 Must See's when driving up to Cape Tribulation

A few weeks ago we were fortunate enough to get a week off from uni. The week was intended for studying... preparing for exams, catching up on assignments. Well being good international students,

Cape Cleveland

Hiking out to Cape Cleveland lighthouse

Dreaming of freshly shucked oysters off the rocks, swimming with turtles, sipping fine wine and sampling fine cheeses overlooking the turquoise ocean and bay at sunset? What about camping next to a lighthouse under the stars, awake to a superb sunrise over the ocean? This is the hike for you!

Thorsborne Trail

Thorsborne Trail - South to North - a hidden treasure

So last weekend we finally packed our bags and went out to Hinchinbrook Island for four days to hike the Thorsborne Trail. I had never done any multi-day hiking before and was a

Magnetic Island

A weekend on Magnetic Island

So finally last Friday we headed out with a bunch of great people to enjoy a weekend on Maggie, as locals like to call Magnetic Island. We rented a house on the island

Townsville

My 10 favorite things to do in Townsville

Announcing that I would spend my semester abroad in Townsville at the James Cook University - a lot of my friends, especially the ones that had been to Townsville, looked at me questioning.

Frederick Peak

Frederick Peak, Pinnacles, Hervey Range

Despite the name, Frederick's Peak also refers to a number of rocky pinnacles in the area and is commonly referred to as 'Freds Peaks' or just plain 'Freds' to the regular rock climbers.

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