Southside Cairns which is higher in elevationelevation n.上升， 高地， 正面图， 海拔， 提高， 仰角， 崇高， 庄严 and based between a mountainous valley included the suburbs of White Rock， Mt. Sheridan， Bentley Park， Wrights Creek， Edmonton， and Centenary Heights and the townships of Babinda， Goldsborough， Little Mulgrave， Aloomba and Gordonvale which is located on the Mulgrave River.
The town of Kuranda is located upstream along the Barron River on the western side of the Kuranda Range - part of the Great Dividing Range. Kuranda is located in the Mareeba Shire local government area， and due to the geography of the Kuranda Range， is not part of the Cairns urban area， even though it is part of the Cairns economic catchment.
Climate
The ideal weather in Cairns for most is between May and October which is the dry season which along with the low humidityhumidity n.湿气， 潮湿， 湿度<美>沼泽中的肥沃高地 and cool breeze makes it pleasurable for activities. Summer is between November and April， which is the wet season with tropical rainfalls caused by the monsoons. With the wet season comes the arrival of the Box Jellyfish close to the beach which prevents swimming in the surf unless the local council are using protective nets which are placed a little out to sea and tends to keep them away. However， the Great Barrier Reef itself is free of the Box Jellyfish through all the seasons. All year temperatures remain fairly constant at between 20 and 30 degrees centigrade， whilstwhilst conj.时时， 同时 rainfall peaks in May at about 75mm.
Travel Guide
If you plan to explore the Great Barrier Reef or Queensland，s rain forests， chances are you，ll wind up in this tropical city on Australia，s northeastern coast， and visiting Cairns.
Once a sleepy fishing village， Cairns is the capital city of far north Queensland and the 16th largest city in Australia， with a population of over 120，000 people. Located 400km from the northern most part of the State of Queensland， it lies on the warm waters of Trinity Bay.
This is the only place in the world where two World Heritagelisted attractions - the Great Barrier Reef and the Wet Tropics Rainforest， lie side by side. The 110millionyearold Daintree rainforest， is home to fossilsfossil n.化石， 僵化的事物 adj.化石的， 陈腐的， 守旧的 found nowhere else in the world， is just a couple of hours north of Cairns and houses half of Australia，s animal and plant species.
Cairns is the gateway to these natural attractions， plus other attractions in the area and is also a steppingstone to islands of the Great Barrier Reef and the grasslands of the Savannah Gulf.
When international tourism to the Great Barrier Reef boomed， Cairns boomed with it. With its leafy avenues， Cairns has great shopping centres， efficient transport， sophisticated hotels， cosmopolitan restaurants， cafes and nightclubsnightclub n.夜总会 and a lifestyle that is in keeping with contemporary city living.
As for entertainment there are excellent theatres， galleries， nightclubs and the glassdomed Reef Hotel Casino with four separate gaming areas and a luxury five star hotel.
Another pleasant surprise is how close and accessible everything is in Cairns. The airport is only a few minutes drive from the city centre and visiting cruise liners and yachts moor at a marinamarina n.散步道， 码头 and wharves only a block away from the main centre.