Best known for its towering 90m waterfall, Kondalilla National Park has been declared since 1945 and the falls protected as a recreation area as early as 1906. If you explore the steep, but relatively short, loop trail it will be easy to see why.
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Situated approximately 250km north of Brisbane, and a short 10 minute ferry trip from Rainbow Bay, is the world’s largest sandy island – K’gari (Fraser Island). Meaning ‘paradise’ in the local indigenous language, the island’s remarkable natural beauty and unique environment has also been recognised internationally since 1992 as a World Heritage Area.
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The Noosa everglades, one of only two everglades systems in the world, is a landscape of webbed tributaries fringed in pristine vegetation and inhabited by more than 40% of Australia’s bird species. This biodiversity hotspot stretches 60 km along the upper reaches of the Noosa River and straddles two UNESCO Biosphere Reserves; the Noosa and
Right in the heart of Noosa township, this 3,000 ha national park extends from the rugged coastline of Noosa Heads south to include Lake Weyba and the coastal lowlands towards Coolum Beach. The park is an interesting mix of coastal heath and open woodlands with pockets of lush rainforest with towering hoop and kauri pine
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About 1 hour north of Brisbane a series of craggy peaks silhouette the horizon; these are the stunning Glass House Mountains. A remnant of volcanic activity in the area some 25-27 million years ago, these hard rock columns of trachyte and rhyolite are the exposed heart of molten intrusions after millennia of erosion.
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Lawn Hill National Park would have to be one of the most outstanding national parks that Queensland has to offer. Set in the deep north-west of the state, this country looks more like a typical scene from the Northern Territory or north-west of WA than Queensland.
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The Simpson Desert National Park, now referred to by its traditional Aboriginal name Munga-Thirri National Park, is Queensland’s largest reserve at 1 million hectares. However, this park covers only one part of the greater Simpson Desert which crosses over the South Australian and Northern Territory borders to cover more than 17 million hectares of Central
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The Birdsville Track is one of Australia’s most iconic outback tracks. Starting in Marree, South Australia, this 517km historic cattle route transverses the Tirari and Sturt Stony Deserts, ending in Birdsville, Queensland. Traveling along, the scenery seems to never change until you realise abruptly that it has; from stoney plains, to white, elongated dunes to
