Port Douglas Travel Guide

Port Douglas is a major tourist town in Far North Queensland about 70km's north of Cairns. The town is spread along Four Mile Beach with some big resorts along the way the world-class Sheraton Mirage.
Port Douglas is right next to two very well known World Heritage areas, the Great Barrier Reef and the Daintree Rainforest. Numerous companies run daily trips to the outer reef and the Low Isles for scuba diving and snorkelling.
On 4 September 2006 the "Crocodile Hunter", Steve Irwin died at Batt Reef, off Port Douglas, after a stingray barb went through his chest into his heart while filming a documentary called The Ocean's Deadliest. Four Mile Beach is the premier beach of Port Douglas and from town you can walk to the beach in under 5 minutes and then continue to walk along the sandy beach for hours.
What I like about this beach is that you could spend all day there without a hint of any kind of development. The accommodation and houses are neatly hidden behind the many swaying palms.
Note: This beach has a net during the jellyfish stinger season so when the net is in place please only swim inside its protective barriers.

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Port Douglas is where the rainforest meets the reef; actually anywhere north of Cairns uses this tourist blurb... and it is all very VERY beautiful in North Queensland... especially Cape Tribulation (an amazing beach) and the backpacker accommodation near the beach is the best. The accommodation in the rainforest is not as nice, but interesting to do the nighttime walkabout in the rainforest. I did the scuba diving from Cairns and got advanced PADI along with a coupleof weeks of diving... it was really worth it. Port Douglas offers the same sort of activities but probably less competitively priced than Cairns forscuba and snorkling on the reef. The climate is sub-tropical... so plenty of sunscreen and pack your bathers. The locals are all really casual and laid back. Most of my Brisbane friends are originally from Cairns... lovely people!

port douglas, is a famous holiday town near the daintree national park. it has many hotels not for the average backpacker. good for people whol ike to stay for a little while, there are numerous diving companys who take you out on trips to the great barrier reef. allthough port douglas is not one of the cheapest places. But it's a good base to visit the surroundings like the daintree, cape tribulation, atherton tablelands cairns and kuranda.