Cardwell, Australia Hotels, Vacations, Tourism

Some 50km north from Ingham lies the modest little town of CARDWELL – just a quiet string of shops on one side of the highway, with the sea on the other – though it's made attractive by the outline of Hinchinbrook Island, which hovers just offshore, so close that it almost seems to be part of the mainland. In recent years, Cardwell has become a bit of an environmental battleground as a result of the controversial Port Hinchinbrook Marina , which was built during the 1990s just south of town in a "protected" mangrove zone and dugong (sea cow) sanctuary. The resulting increase in marine … more »