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Category: natural wonders

Flying over the Rain Forest with Skyrail

Posted on March 31, 2023March 31, 2023

Skyrail is a seven and a half kilometer long aerial tramway from the Atherton Tablelands town of Kuranda to the Smithfield ground station just sixteen minutes north of Cairns. You can take the cable cars in both directions for a round trip, or you can combine it with the Kuranda Scenic railway excursion as we…

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Beaches and Waterfalls Around Cairns and the Tablelands

Posted on January 21, 2023February 27, 2023

The Beaches On our recent visit to our friends Ralph and KC in the Cairns suburb of Goldsborough, they took us far and wide to show us some of the magnificent scenery to be found in the region. North of Cairns to Port Douglas is a Mecca for tourists with gorgeous sandy beaches hugging the…

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Photo Gallery: Beaches & Waterfalls Around Cairns

Posted on January 21, 2023February 24, 2023

Here are some additional photos of the beaches and waterfalls around Cairns.

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Cane Trains and Brumbies! Oh My!

Posted on January 14, 2023January 14, 2023

When my wife and I decided to visit my old friend Ralph and his wife KC in Cairns for a week, I had no idea what this Northern Queensland city was all about. I thought it was some remote town whose only claim to fame was its proximity to the Great Barrier Reef. Boy, did…

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Niagara Falls

Posted on July 17, 2022July 18, 2022

Niagara Falls! The name alone stirs up images of thundering water rolling over a vast cliff and plunging 160 feet to the gorge below. The falls were formed during the Wisconsin Glaciation, the last North American ice age which happened from 75,000 to 11,000 years ago. The receding ice carved out the Great Lakes and…

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Niagara Falls Photo Gallery

Posted on July 17, 2022July 22, 2022

Here are some additional photos and videos of Niagara Falls. And that ends our visit to Niagara Falls, truly one of the great natural wonders of the world.

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