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An Apollonaut travel guide
A park on the range.
An introduction to the setting of Rainforestation Nature Park, at the top of the Kuranda Range above Cairns.
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Read the range
The park stands on the Kennedy Highway at the top of the Kuranda Range, a few minutes from Kuranda Village, which was surveyed in 1888 and reached by the railway from Cairns in 1891.
A guide can give context without turning a landscape into a backdrop. Notice how the park’s paths, lake and buildings sit within the rainforest.
Lake, tracks and platforms
The Army Ducks board from platforms and follow tracks through the forest into the lake. The Pamagirri performances take place in a rainforest amphitheatre, and most paths are paved and covered.
Begin with a detail and ask what it is for: a boarding platform, a covered walkway, a netted area for throwing boomerangs.
A Rainforestation chapter
The park shows one side of the region’s story: a family business that turned an orchard into a rainforest attraction, and that shares Aboriginal culture through its own guides.
Look at the meeting of the two: the wartime Ducks, and the forest they travel through.
Make room for context
Pair this reading with the park’s history and the Journal. This is an introduction for visitors, not a claim that our team manages these places or represents the people who built them.
Read at the source
Sources & further reading
- Rainforestation: About us
- Rainforestation: Army Duck Rainforest Tour
- Rainforestation: Frequently asked questions
- Wikipedia: Kuranda, Queensland
Links lead to the original publishers.
