Rex Lookout
Clifftop pull-off above the Coral Sea, named for the councillor who championed the coast road below.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Rex Lookout, on the Captain Cook Highway near Wangetti outside Cairns, centers on Raymond David Rex, the Douglas Shire councillor who spent decades pushing for the coastal road cut into these cliffs before it opened in nineteen thirty-three. It follows the gap between his campaigning and the day, in nineteen eighty-two, a plaque finally carried his name to this clifftop. Look out to the Coral Sea from the same ledge, with the rainforest range behind you.
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