Top island rainforest walk
Wonder walk: Green Island is Cairns' closest island and is home to one of Queensland's top-rated bushwalks.
IT'S best known for snorkelling and diving the Great Barrier Reef, but Green Island is also home to one of the best bushwalks in Queensland.
Green Island has been named as one of the top 10 bushwalks in the state.
The 50-minute walk came in at No. 9 on the Department of Environment and Resource Management’s top 10 bushwalks.
With a circumference of just 1.6km, Green Island is home to more than 120 species of plants, including a mixture of coastal and rainforest plants.
Of the 300 coral cays in the Great Barrier Reef, Green Island is the only one with a rainforest and this, along with the diversity of plant life, makes it a unique rainforest walk.
Great Adventures has developed a self-guided eco walk on the island which is ringed by short, scrubby coastal vegetation that can survive the drier conditions along the beach while in the centre of the island the vegetation changes to a dense, shady vine-thicket rainforest.
Quicksilver Group managing director Tony Baker said the island had already been awarded Cleanest Beach in Far North Queensland and it was pleasing it was now recognised as one of the top bushwalks in Queensland.
He said respect for traditional owners was highlighted with indigenous uses of flora being a point of interest.
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