Australian Traveller — Issue 75 — June-July 2017

COOL GETAWAYS | Port Douglas WORDS ELOISE BASUKI PHOTOGRAPHY ELISE HASSEY AUSTRALIANTRAVELLER.COM 79 ...

80 AUSTRALIANTRAVELLER.COM Stretching out for more than 2000 kilometres, the Great Barrier Reef is the world’s largest coral ree ...

“HAVE YOU TAKEN A KWELLS?”asks my obviously concerned driver, as we snake around the first tight bend of the Captain Cook Highwa ...

82 AUSTRALIANTRAVELLER.COM After the illustrious launch of the $100 million Sheraton Mirage by Christopher Skase back in 1987, t ...

GETAWAYS | Port Douglas ...

Continental Shelf, and Quicksilver have anchored a two-level floating platform just above it. It’s a little daunting for those w ...

AUSTRALIANTRAVELLER.COM 85 GETAWAYS | Port Douglas THIS PAGE: The sights around Port range from reef to rainforest, where natura ...

The Coral Sea coastline frames the town, and the constant waterfront views and seaside lifestyle are hard to beat. ...

AUSTRALIANTRAVELLER.COM 87 GETAWAYS | Port Douglas DETAILS Getting there Port Douglas is a one-hour drive from Cairns Internatio ...

The Wind Wa l ke rs PHOTOGRAPHY: STEVE MADGWICK ...

of Tasmania’s EAST COAST; a unique journey of SAILING AND BUSHWALKING offers the BEST OF BOTH worlds. TWO FEET, ONE YACHT, and t ...

Pencil diving off the side of a sailboat into the vivacious Tasman is unsurpassed as a wake-up ritual. PHOTOGRAPHY: ALAMY (MAIN) ...

GETAWAYS | Tasmania AUSTRALIANTRAVELLER.COM 91 BAFFLINGLY, THEY VANISH, one by one. Inevitably, I will be next. Only two hours i ...

CLOCKWISE FROM FAR LEFT: Ile des Phoques translates as ‘island of seals’, and here’s why; Bear (free) Hill; Approaching Ile des ...

AUSTRALIANTRAVELLER.COM 93 GETAWAYS | Tasmania IS IT FOR ME? If you want to get the most out of your sail walk you should have a ...

LATER, MARIA The sails rise again (mechanically winched, a little unromantically) and Maria gradually retreats into the sea. We ...

DETAILS Wineglass Bay Sail Walk The Tasmanian Walking Company offers two guided sail walk itineraries departing from Hobart: the ...

INTO THE WEATHER ...

CLOUDLESSdryseason.ButintenseweatherSEEDS SUR PR ISE, adventure and new life. We go in search of its WET SEASON SOUL. MYTH HAS I ...

THIS IMAGE: Peering at Motor Car Falls atop a giant boulder. PREVIOUS PAGE: A blue-sky moment at Motor Car Falls. ...