Wet Tropics World Heritage Area

Mission Beach is in the heart of the Wet Tropics World Heritage Area where the rainforest grows right down to the Great Barrier Reef. Home to many plants and animals, it is the oldest rainforest in the world dating back 10’s of millions of years to the age of the dinosaurs.

The rainforest is home to the Southern Cassowary that is the 3rd biggest bird in the world standing at almost 2 meters tall and are a keystone to the rainforest eating over 200 types of rainforest seeds and fruit, many of which only the Cassowary can eat. Mission Beach is the best place in the world where you can see these shy and highly endangered big birds in the wild and are our number 1 thing to do in Mission Beach.

There are many walking tracks though the rainforest in Mission Beach from a very short kids walk where kids can learn about the rainforest to a 7km hike on the Edmund Kennedy Track, a walk way to two world heritage areas of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park and the Wet Tropics World Heritage Area and discover where the first white explorer Edmund Kennedy came to shore in Kennedy Bay to explore Far North Queensland.