Palm Cove is just north of Cairns, 20 minutes from the airport. It's a lovely spot even if it looks a bit artifical with its designer shrubs and sidewalks, and its opulent, multi-storey resorts (simpler accommodation is also available). The palms and huge melaleucas are original - the latter are the biggest I've ever seen.
Palm Cove isn't overrun by tourists, and most of them are older folks or famiies with tiny tots, so it's a quiet place. Here are a few more images. All images made with Nikon D40x, click on them to see larger files.
One of those melaleucas
The view south
The view from the apartment
The Botanical Gardens - well worth stopping for
Definitely the most comfortable place to hang out - great coffee, great food, great staff
Vivo's owner with a local identity and his grand child
the very front of the Angsana Resort
Even nature strives for perfection
Fitzroy Island on the Inner Barrier Reef, less than an hour's trip from Cairns
A humpback whale we saw on the way
Rainforest
The new Cairns foreshore
