Cairns & Surroundings - Tropical North Queensland (Bandwidth)

These are the best of my journeys around Cairns over the few months. Some images may be a little low quality because they were taking on my phone (3.2mp) and I only just got a good camera. I've only just started spending time on getting good and you may notice I have only used a tripod on the skyline shots

Cairns is home to around 135 000 people and is one of the most popular tourist destinations in Australia.

I'll start with the centerpiece of the town, the lagoon.










Starting from the lagoon in the and travelling around 2km along the foreshore to the Cairns Hockey Fields is the Cairns Esplanade. At low tide it is a 1km+ mud bank which is ugly to the untrained eye but it is one of the region's best bird watching sites. At high tide though it offers water right up the the esplanade and its small beach on the northern end. Along the esplanade also is the Cairns Hospital and below is a featured photo of it's rescue helicopter.

The Northern Esplanade Area:









After the skatebowl and the playground is the Southern Esplanade:
















South of the Lagoon is the mouth of the Trinty Inlet. Once just the usual port with wharves it is now being opened up to the public with the Cairns Port Authority's Cityport Project. I guess it's a small Melbourne Docklands.













Also part of the project is the Cairns Convention Centre built around the start of the project in 1997. The shots below are of the back it is near impossible to get a shot of the front.




Behind and through the City Port project is Wharf Street which features some of Cairns' highest buildings.

Tallest Building in terms of floors - Piermonde - 55m


Wharf Street:









From Wharf Street looking down Lake Street. The white building which is in the photos is the Cairns Corporate Tower, Cairns' highest building at 56m:



Between the Lagoon and Wharf Street is the Reef Hotel & Casino, which also opened in 1997. The Casino is under a see though glass dome where a zoo is located above the Casino. To the south is a white part of the building which is the casino. Other buildings in the area are the Harbour Lights, Hilton, Piermonde, Jack & Newell, Cairns International Hotel, Cairns Corporate Tower & the Pacific International.



If your wondering the birds in the photo are Fruit Bats:






Here are some shots of around town:

Abbott Street:






Grafton Street:




Spence Street:





Sheridan Street:





Hartley Street:



Aplin Street:




The Pier Bar & Grill:



Cairns Yaught Club (To be demolished for the City Port Project)



City Place:



Arts Gallery:



Cairns CBD Library:



Also from atop Cairns' tallest building, the view of Cairns looking west:




Cairns Central. The main shopping centre in the city which is possibly soon to become a Westfield.





Birds seen around the city streets:







Whitfield:



Looking towards the Barron Gorge:



City Skylines:













Random:lol:I like to call it the city on fire:



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Thats all for Cairns. I'll put up some of the tablelands, the reef and the beaches soon