Description
100 Things to See in Tropical North Queensland, Australia is a guide to the best of the far north and Great Barrier Reef, according to the region’s locals and insiders. Home to the oldest rainforest on earth, the world’s largest living organism, the Wet Tropics World Heritage Area, Daintree Rainforest and The Riversleigh Fossil Mammal Sites, this remarkable destination is cherished by locals and intrepid adventurers alike. In this guide, author and travel journalist Catherine Lawson, along with partner and photographer, David Bristow, share their 20 years of travel experience to transport you to off the beaten path locales to uncover 100 of the best places and things to see and do – from dream-like swimming holes to undisturbed rock-art galleries and outback adventures you will never forget.
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About the Author
Catherine Lawson has called the ocean home for over two decades, sailing the catamaran Wild One. For over 20 years, she’s been provisioning and cooking for extendant, remote sailing expeditions and developing recipes for sailing, camping and caravanning magazines. They are the authors of sailing cookbook The Hunter & The Gatherer and Highway One: Ultimate Australian Roadtrip.
Catherine cut her journalistic teeth as a cadet in a regional newsroom, but her love of travel made keeping her itchy feet under a desk pretty challenging. After tackling a Big Lap of Australia, she landed a job as editor of Go Camping Australia magazine so that she could legitimately travel for ‘work’, and pretty quickly became a digital nomad, editing the magazine on the road and freelancing for some of Australia’s best travel and camping magazines. She launched Australia’s first outdoor Gear Guide, and after meeting David on an idyllic Thai island, moved to Tropical North Queensland to manage News Corp’s Port Douglas Gazette. The author of two Australian travel books, Catherine has spent the last 25 years writing for the likes of Australian Geographic, Wild, Outdoor, Action Asia, Get Lost, WellBeing and ROAM magazine.
David began his career as a television cameraman in Western Australia, filming in the most remote corners of the state. Born in Perth, he spent his youth – camera on shoulder, surfboard in car – travelling the entire west coast until he and Catherine Lawson met in Thailand and moved to Tropical North Queensland, Australia. Dave transitioned to stills photography, and now devotes his days to documenting Australia’s wild places (and wild creatures) for magazines and books.
Together they prefer to be exploring the path less travelled and specialize in dreaming up and documenting the kind of adventures and wildlife encounters that inspire intrepid travelers to pack their bags. They don’t write about the world’s hippest bars, or which galleries to visit (unless they are Indigenous rock art galleries) or what hotel deals to snap up. But they do guide travelers to some of the wildest natural destinations on the planet.
They have a daughter, Maya, who, as-well-as being the youngest Australian to reach Everest base-camp, accompanies them on all their travels.
They currently live on their catamaran and are sailing through Southeast Asia.
