This tour takes you to the beaches of Queensland from Bundaberg up to Cairns. This report also provides maps, photos, tips and hints. General on this track it comes not only to bring distances behind them, but also to experience, to cope in other climates like the tropics. Secluded beaches, small towns, sweltering heat, beautiful reefs, bird-eating spiders and much more. applies to discover it. Distances and journey times: Hervey Bay to Gladstone: approx. 280 km / driving time approx.
3,5 hours Gladstone to Rockhampton: 110 km / driving time approximately 1.8 hours of Rockhampton to MacKay: approx. 360 km / driving time of the train: approx. 5 hours of Mackay to Airlie Beach: approx. 130 km / driving time of the train: 2 hours Airlie Beach to Townsville: approx. 290 km / driving time of the train: approximately 4.5 hours of Townsville to Ingham: approx. 120 km / driving time: approximately 2 hours of Townsville to Cairns: CA – km / driving time: approximately 6 hours of Ingham to Innisfail: approx. 150 km / driving time: approximately 1.8 hours of Innisfail to Cairns: approx. 70 km /.
Travel time: approximately 1 hour of Cairns to Cape Tribulation: approx. 170 km / driving time: approx. – 1st stage hour: Hervey Bay to Gladstone: approx. 280 km tour starts in Hervey Bay, the tourist center at the port \”the Esplanade\”. After 35 km you reach the Highway No. 1 Bundaberg: see route description \”Brisbane to Hervey Bay\” the stage is an industrial city, which has to offer not much tourist, as well as the starting point for the great barrier reef trips with Gladstone. By Gladstone to Port Douglas you will face from now in the local travel agencies with trips to the great barrier reef. A trip to the reef advises you to start Combipix because in these cities the provider competitive pressure is higher, and you have alternatives to the Islands \”Green Iceland\” or \”Fitzroy Iceland\” but only in Cairns or Port Douglas.