What are the most unusual tours and activities in Queensland?

From Daintree River crocodile cruises to kangaroos on the beach at Cape Hillsborough – 22 unusual Queensland tours and activities for travellers who want to go beyond the highlights reel.

Postcard images of Queensland tend to involve the Gold Coast beach, Great Barrier Reef snorkelling sites or yachting in the Whitsunday Islands. But Queensland is a big and varied state, offering some altogether more unusual experiences. Australia Travel Questions has compiled a list of marvellously quirky tours and activities in Queensland, each of which is covered in more detail on the site. Why not add some of them to the itinerary for your next Queensland holiday?

Unusual tours and activities in Queensland

1. Go on a Daintree River crocodile cruise in far north Queensland.
2. Drive up to the Maheno Shipwreck on Fraser Island’s 75 Mile Beach.
3. Take a hot air balloon flight over the Gold Coast hinterland.
4. Paint with the multi-coloured sands of Rainbow Beach.
5. Time travel through the eras of life on earth in the Cairns Botanic Gardens.
6. Propose to a loved one while flying over Heart Island on the Great Barrier Reef.
7. Make a soggy pilgrimage to the Golden Gumboot in Tully, supposedly Australia’s wettest town.
8. Eat out at Eat Street – Brisbane’s shipping container dining complex.
9. Snorkel around the shipwrecks of Moreton Island.
10. See the highest concentration of saltwater crocodiles in Australia on a Proserpine River cruise.
11. Walk the plank 80 metres above the Brisbane River while climbing the Story Bridge.
12. Watch movies from your car at the Yatala Drive In cinema on the Gold Coast.
13. Check out the enormous, sprawling Cathedral Fig in Danbulla National Park.
14. Walk along a street turned into a Bee Gees shrine in Redcliffe.
15. Spot the elusive platypus at Broken River in the Eungella National Park.
16. Watch the sun set with kangaroos on the beach at Cape Hillsborough.
17. Take a walking tour around the quirky public art in Brisbane.
18. Discover what Aboriginal people used plants for on a Fraser Island bush food walk.
19. Make your friends jealous as you hold a koala in Cairns.
20. Go swimming with humpback whales in Mooloolaba on the Sunshine Coast.
21. Spot dugongs in Moreton Bay from the Coochiemudlo Island ferry.
22. Feed crocodiles with a pole at Hartley’s Crocodile Adventures near Port Douglas.

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