Far north Queensland is home to so many great cultural events — music, theatre, dance, visual arts. We’ve got it all! The Tablelands Folk Festival at Yungaburra is one of our best known, and there’s the Wallaby Creek festival, the Cairns Ukelele Festival, the Evolve […]
Here in far north Queensland, it’s almost always hot. Hot and dry, or hot and wet. Our dry season runs from May to November, and “the wet” can get going any time from early December. That’s when the monsoon moves south from Asia, bringing heavy […]
You’ll see plenty of cattle in far north Queensland. Dairy herds on the lush rolling green hills of the Atherton Tablelands, and beef cattle just about everywhere else. When it comes time to muster and move cattle, all kinds of methods are used. Helicopters, […]
In far north Queenland, nothing gets hot faster than a debate about using fire to look after country. Lately we’ve heard calls for more research on whether indigenous people once used fire to control undergrowth in rain-forests. It’s generally accepted Aboriginal people used fire to […]
In October 2011 I took the trusty ABC 4WD from Cairns to the tip of Cape York Peninsula. The roads can be tough going, especially when it rains, and the dreaded corrugations will shake the fillings out of your teeth. It was at the end […]
I’ve seen some amazing things but this is an all-time highlight! A visit to one of the Aboriginal rock art sites near the Cape York Peninsula town of Laura. This is spectacular sandstone country, home to a large number of prehistoric rock paintings thought to […]