Daintree Rainforest

A view of the Mossman River from one of the trails in Daintree National Park, part of the Wet Tropics World Heritage Area.

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Port Douglas

January 16th 2007
We’ve just spent the last two days in Port Douglas, a delightful tourist town on the North Coast, an hour north of Cairns. It is near Port Douglas where two of the great wonders of the natural world meet, the Great Barrier Reef and the Daintree Rainforest. To visit these natural wonders is why we’re here, but we all kind of fell in love with Port Douglas itself. It would be the perfect spot ... read more

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Aboriginal settlers arrived on the continent from Southeast Asia about 40,000 years before the first Europeans began exploration in the 17th century. No formal territorial claims were made until 1770, when Capt. James COOK took possession in the name... ... read more

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