Located in Far North Queensland, Cairns City is on an esplanade but there is no beach, just mud flat. As you drive out of Cairns City along the Bruce Highway towards Port Douglas, in a very short distance you will come across the first of what has been named ‘Cairns’ Northern Beaches’. The first is Machans Beach, the others being Holloways Beach, Yorkeys Knob, Trinity Beach, Kewarra Beach, Clifton Beach, Palm Cove and Ellis Beach. Each is a small, separate township with its own character.
The mainstream beach townships provide much of the city’s holiday accommodation. Water activities can be enjoyed at the beaches almost year round due to the wonderful climate. In the summer months, as with most tropical locations, the beaches are visited by marine stingers/box jellyfish. The beaches have been adapted to this natural problem by implementing "stinger enclosures".
Appropriately, the postmark depicts scenes relevant to the area and PO staff report approximately 100 covers were cancelled with the new postmark.
