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Located in the
far northern
part of Queensland, Cape York is a wilderness area of contrasts, with
abundant water systems, that include rivers, creeks and waterfalls.
There is wild untamed bushland, rainforest areas, great beaches,
and stretches of long dusty roads. Cape York will offer many surprises,
from it's natural beauty, it's
history, and the friendliness of the people of the Torres Strait. With a distance of 1,000 km from Cairns to the
northern tip of Australia, on the east side of the peninsula (from Cairns to Cooktown)
you will meet steep
mountains covered in rainforest, that meets the ocean of the Coral Sea. Further
north the country becomes drier, with large granite and sandstone areas. The coastline
stretches for hundreds of km, met by winds sweeping the beaches and you
can see eroded
cliffs sculptured into fabulous shapes.
To the west, rivers
flow and emerge into the mangroves, where they join the waters of the Gulf of
Carpentaria.
There are two seasons on Cape York Peninsula, known as the wet and
the dry. The wet, commences from November and is the most spectacular,
with fantastic thunderstorms displays that announce the monsoonal rains.
This is also the cyclone season. The roads then become
impassable until about April to May and the only way to visit the Cape
York region is by aircraft. After the
wet season comes the dry, and the return of the South East Trade Winds. For additional accommodation, attraction, tours and other information
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York Air
