Ellis Beach, Queensland Totally Explained

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Ellis Beach is a locality in Tropical North Queensland, Australia. It lies on the Coral Sea. The magnificent five kilometre strip of Ellis Beach is located thirty minutes drive north of Cairns on the Captain Cook Highway between Cairns and Port Douglas, within Cairns Regional Council. One of the Tropical Far North's most beautiful beaches, where World Heritage rainforest comes down to the Great Barrier Reef, Ellis Beach is popular with locals and visitors. Holiday accommodation (beach-front bungalows, caravans and a camping site) is available at Ellis Beach Leisure Park and Oceanfront Bungalows

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Ellis Beach is also home to the Ellis Beach Surf Lifesaving Club

which regularly hosts competitions and events. From November to May, a stinger net patrolled by the club helps protect swimmers from marine "stingers" (jellyfish species of Chironex and Irukandji) which inhabit the waters during those months.
Ellis Beach featured in the fourth season of the Amazing Race.

History of Ellis Beach

While the history of Ellis Beach is somewhat vague, the Cairns Historical Society’s records show that it was named after Dick Ellis, who at the time resided at this beach. He was a shot firer for the Queensland Department of Main Roads - presumably at the time the Cook Highway was constructed in the early 1930s. He lost a hand and the state government constructed a house for him at the beach now known as Ellis Beach on the spot where the café now stands. This was about 1940 and Dick Ellis died in 1960.
Before World War II the area was unnamed (in English) and had no houses. It was only during the war years that it became known as Ellis Beach and this fits with all other records. There are a number of mango trees at Ellis Beach, which it's believed were tended by Mr Ellis. After the construction of the Cook Highway through the area the authorities decided to plant many varieties of trees along each side of the roadway. This was done where the terrain permitted. Mangoes were particularly suitable for this purpose and many of the original trees survive along with other flowering trees. Those along the stretch of road at Ellis Beach would no doubt owe their existence to Dick Ellis. In other areas drought and fire have taken their toll but some still exist.

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