Location - Clifton Beach is 25kms north of Cairns on the way to Port Douglas. Palm Cove is our local shopping strip, great restaurants, beautiful beaches.  Kaikea is a short walk to the public beach which has an enclosed area protected by a Stinger Net during the marine stinger season, usually October thru May. From the beach you walk 30 minutes north along the beach to Palm Cove to a selection of shops, hotels and restaurants.

We have a shopping centre within 500 meters with the usual Supermarket, Service Station, Fast Foods, Post Office, Doctor, Hairdresser, Fishing Tackle, Bait etc. The bus service to Cairns is nearby and the buses run half hourly in business hours and hourly at other times. There are three Golf Courses within a 15 minute drive.

Queensland forms the north-east corner of the Australian continent and, with an area of 1.8 million square kilometres, is the country’s second-largest state. To put Queensland in perspective, it’s more than seven times the size of the United Kingdom, more than four and half time the size of Japan, around six and half times the size of New Zealand, more than five times the size of Texas.

The state has much to offer, from the tropical islands of the Great Barrier Reef to the wide open spaces of the Outback, from lush World Heritage-listed rainforest to the wetlands of the Gulf, and from the mountains that trace the length of the coast to the open plains, fields and cattle stations.

The state’s tropical rainforests, offer spectacular vistas of waterfalls and lush vegetation.   The World Heritage-listed Great Barrier Reef extends along the coastline for 2,000 kilometres, making it the greatest and most spectacular expanse of living coral reef on earth.

Climate
One of the major attractions of Queensland is its climate, with just over half the state lying in the tropical zone and the remainder in the temperate zone.

The average maximum temperature is 25.2 C and the average minimum 15.7 C. It is truly the Sunshine State, with the gateway cities of Brisbane, Cairns and Townsville enjoying an average of 300 days of sunshine a year.
 

Population
The State’s population passed 3.8 million in 2003 (at the time of the last Census). The relatively densely populated south-east corner of Queensland contains over two-thirds of the State’s total population. 

Cairns city, in Tropical North Queensland, is the State’s northern-most regional centre, 1800km north of Brisbane, and has a population of over 120,000 within the city’s boundaries.

Tourism Industry
On average, the state of Queensland attracts 7.8 million visitors and 39 million visitor nights. Total tourism expenditure is valued at around $5.4 billion for visitors who stay in commercial accommodation.

The state attracts more than 60 per cent of all international visitors to Australia - about 1.5 million overseas visitors each year.