Australian Traveller

2 PORT DOUGLAS, QLD

ORT DOUGLAS IS A VIVID PLACE, crayoned in blues and greens and popping with colour from pretty flowers and foliage. It’s where southerners go to be liberated from their heavy coats and boots in winter and to escape their city lives over summer. It’s where you’ll find colourful livewire characters holding forth at the pubs, sun-kissed backpackers twirling fire sticks on the beach, and wannabe locals trying to manifest a sea change. This is Yirrganydji Sea Country and it’s where the jungle

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