Port Douglas is situated on a narrow strip of land between the bay of Dixon and the Pacific Ocean. Here the Great Barrier Reef comes closest to the mainland. At low tide the water recedes away, revealing all the treasures of the Great Barrier Reef. The port will find a quiet park luxury yachts and other pleasure craft. Catamarans go on day trips to the Great Barrier Reef, where his great depth tourists consider plunging into the ocean either by themselves or through the transparent bottom of the ship.

On these wet fly coast clouds of butterflies. They fly among the dwarf trees and giant tree ferns, between the curtain of vines and tall trees.

Up until recently, Port Douglas was a little asleep at the border outpost of civilization in the far tropical north. Today, appreciating the beauty of these fabulous places, companies invest millions of dollars in superroskoshnye hotels. They were followed by others, and now around the bay housed a luxury shopping mall, golf courses, helicopter landing pad and, finally, the "fence of Honor" – coconut palms, brought for mad money and landed at 6 km.

It's very interesting to visit the Museum of shipwrecks – This museum is dedicated to the most famous shipwreck, and shows the dangers of swimming in those waters where there is a reef. And you can get an indescribable pleasure, visiting the giant Voltaire Rainforest Habitat – Voltaire outdoors, which is where most recently, were only sugar cane plantation: pack budgerigars rush like a gust of wind, projectile from a tropical forest, growing on the other side of the building; is collected about thirty species of Australian birds, butterflies, bright flowers, bats flying in the park egrets, Brolga, yabiru and cranes from all over marshy plains of the north, as well as the strangest bird – cassowary.

Along the bay of Port Douglas, well-being combined with each other, lined up in one line coconut trees and houses, and opposite them, on the other side of the bay Dickson grow smeared with mud mangroves. From the pier to the islands leave the yacht.

The largest virgin forest of Australia stretches from Mossman to Cooktown. Mossman – this is the northernmost city in which the processed sugar cane, and the starting point for trips to Mossman Gorge. The road from Port Douglas to Mossman (30 minutes) is considered one of the most beautiful in Australia. In Mossman Valley at the foot of majestic Mount Demi lie the bright green sugarcane fields. Mossman is located close to the famous Daintree River, which is so fond of crocodiles. Next is the Daintree National Park with a magical primeval forest. This is one of the oldest nature reserves on the planet: 900000 ha included in UNESCO's World Heritage List. Humidity makes it even more lush vegetation, huge trees, with vines that hang down to form arches, under which the palm trees, ferns and orchids.

When cross the Daintree River on the old ferry, sliding along the rope, before getting into the real jungle, covering almost religious feeling. Dense tropical forest hangs over the banks of the Daintree, where crocodiles are not asleep (which, incidentally, can reach 9 m in length).

In most of the primeval forest that existed for millions of years, you can see the most incredible animals: a glowing green frog with claws, tentacles, which climbs a tree, opossum, gliding from one tree to another, marsupial cats, and in April – glowing mushrooms that grow on tree trunks.