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TROPIC • TRENDS

What’s hot and what’s not on
T r opic
Tropic’s radar right now.

WHAT’S HOT
CALAVERAS STREET
Put Ignacio Perez-Canto and Brian
So together in a room and you’ll get a
damn tasty Korean burrito.
After working together in a local five-
star kitchen, the two chefs joined
forces to open Calaveras Street on the
corner of Draper Street. The eatery’s
Mexican-Korean flavour fusion
TURNING TOURIST includes all your go-to takeaways like
Tropical North Queensland is an burgers, noodles, fried rice, tacos
amazing place to live, and naturally, an and nachos. We hear the jalapeno
amazing place to explore. Now’s the poppers are particularly good.
perfect time to rediscover the region MORE: @calaverascairns
with less travellers around and a bunch
of incentives for locals. Anyone living
between Cardwell and Cooktown can
sign up for a free Douglas Card, which
gives you unlimited free Daintree Ferry
trips and free entry to the Mossman BUSH MEDICINE
Gorge over summer. Skin is the body’s largest organ and
MORE: douglas.qld.gov.au we think it deserves to be treated well.
Feed it with the good stuff from Rohr
Remedy – a Cairns-based business
crafting natural skin care from native
plants. With ingredients like kakadu
plum, lilly pilly and honey myrtle –
harvested ethically and sustainably
from Indigenous landowners – these
paraben-free products are the retreat
your skin deserves.
MORE: rohrremedy.com

FILMS FOR CHANGE
Developed an unhealthy addiction to Netflix this
year? You’re not the only one.
While COVID-19 may have turned us into couch
potatoes, the pandemic also led to the launch
of online streaming service Films For Change
– a feel-good way to savour some screen time.
With informative and inspiring independent
documentaries from around the globe, Films for
Change features the kind of thought-provoking
flicks you’d usually see at a special screening.
MORE: filmsforchange.com.au

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