Palm Cove
Palm-fringed beach cove shaped by a settler's century-old road and a homestead swallowed by a resort.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Palm Cove, on the coast north of Cairns, follows two men who shaped an unnamed beach: an Anglican archdeacon named Campbell, who spent the early nineteen-hundreds trying to farm crops that did not belong in this sand, and the settler who bought him out in nineteen eighteen, Albert Veivers, whose real obsession was a road. You will hear how the beach spent decades simply as Palm Beach, and how one family filled these paddocks with rodeo days. Listen for the street sign as you walk Williams Esplanade.
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