Thursday 21 December 2023: We are open for Palm Cove! Port Douglas <> Cairns Inland Highway via Mareeba to open in a few days?? - stay tuned

We are pleased to announce that we have resumed Palm Cove and Cairns City Services from Cairns Airport. We welcome your bookings for these transfers.

​We also understand from reporting on Newsport (great work guys for all the reporting and information over the past week) that the inland Highway via Kuranda and Mareeba linking Port Douglas with Cairns is on track to open possibly over the weekend.

This trip usually takes 2.5 hours pre-cyclone and so we await more information. However, it will be fantastic to have the connection open for visitors and local communities.

We are watching the space closely and hope to be able to offer daily seats in shared shuttle and private transfer services very soon. We will post here when we know more and have new bookings forms ready to allow for the longer trip and modified daily shared shuttle services.

Also a big shout out to all the Police, local government workers, and importantly the guys and gals on the machinery who are working extraordinary hours in extraordinary conditions to connect Port Douglas back to Cairns and the outside world.

Next update here Friday morning.

Image: Local legend ' Bretto' has shared amazing images of the damage to Captain Cook Highway and here is another picture published here on NewsPort yesterday. The video that goes with these pictures shows the scale of the job ahead opening up the Captain Cook Highway which remains out of action for approx: 1 month. Thanks Bretto 👍🌴