Heavenly Hinchinbrook
Sunset and sand: Hinchinbrook Island offers relaxation or recreation, with beautiful beaches and one of Queensland's most challenging walking tracks.
HINCHINBROOK Island is Australia's largest island National Park that abounds in palm-fringed beaches, mangrove waterways and rugged granite cliffs.
Visitors can join a boat cruise across seagrass beds that are home to dugongs and marine turtles, or learn about the unique mangrove everglades ecosystem.
The island is also home to the famous Thorsborne Trail, a 32km trek over Hinchinbrook’s rugged rainforest landscape.
It is also known for its bird watching, with a huge variety of species using the island as a migratory home.
Hinchinbrook, south of Cairns, is just one of many tropical islands that dot the coastline along the Great Barrier Reef.
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