Cairns: Palm Grove & Botanical Gardens

 

Home to one of Australia’s most beautiful beaches, Palm Cove in the Whitsunday area of North Queensland is a modern tropical paradise with palm trees, lovely shops, a fishing jetty, nearby islands and also home to the deadly Irukandji jellyfish. These tiny, venomous creatures can pass through standard stinger nets, causing severe, delayed reaction stings known as Irukandji syndrome, and were warned against while diving on the Great Barrier Reef, donning 'stinger suits'.

A short drive from Palm Grove is the Cairns Botanic Gardens, often referred to as the Flecker Botanical Gardens, a premier tropical plant showcase featuring the impressive Watkins Munro Martin Conservatory known for its stunning collection of orchids, ferns, bromeliads, and butterflies. Inside the conservatory, a one-way meandering path leads visitors through a climate-controlled environment that houses some of the garden's most valuable and delicate tropical specimens

Palm Cove in North Queensland is a modern tropical paradise

Palm Grove beachfront 'Palm Tree Alley'

Australian flag attached to a tree along Palm Grove beachfront

Quaint shops and colourful signage in Palm Grove

Cairns Botanical Gardens is a tropical oasis showcasing Australia's vibrant flora,

and exotic plants of Tropical North Queensland

The Botanic Gardens

Araceae from Borneo in the Watkins Munro Martin Conservatory

Heliconia

Tropical Pitcher Plant that has modified leaves known as pitfall traps, that are prey-trapping mechanisms with a deep cavity filled with digestive liquid

Orange Tulip Ginger

Back-Scratcher Ginger

Waterfall in the Orchid House

Pink Medinilla

Beach Spiderlily

Beehive Ginger

Golden Candle

www.cairns.qld.gov.au/experience-cairns/botanic-gardens