We are back from a break from the Dunedin Winter, doing a road trip in Tropical North Queensland, from Mackay to Cape Tribulation. It is a wonderful place for a holiday, especially at this time of year when the temperature is just right for sandals and shirt-sleeves.
Mackay is a boom town on the back of the mining industry, with 40 ships queued off-shore waiting to load coal to China. In the nearby Eungella National Park, we saw platypus in the wild.
Townsville was a real city with happy locals, not a resort, and seemed good place to live in the Dry Tropics compared to the Wet Tropics to the north.
Our favourite place was The Sanctuary at Mission Beach: huts in the Rain-forest with a fine restaurant, where we were lucky to see some cassowaries. Port Douglas is an international-class resort close to the Great Barrier Reef. After croc-spotting on the Daintree river, it is Rain-forest to the end of the tar-seal at Cape Tribulation where we stayed and enjoyed tropical fruit at the Cape Trib Farmstay.
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