LOCATION
Edmonton a suburb of Cairns just ten kilometers to its south in Tropical North Queensland, Australia. This area has been made famous by the Great Barrier Reef and the Rainforests of the Wet Tropics.
The Great Barrier Reef extends over 1,500 kilometers, and are home to the greatest variety of flora and fauna species found in any one location in the world. The scope of thi magnificent reef encompassies 22,000 individual reefs and an area of 348,000 square kilometres. The Great Barrier Reef, now a national marine park, provides superb recreational activities such as snorkelling, diving, swimming, semi-submersibles, coral viewing and fishing.
The Rainforests of the Wet Tropics, with its bounty of flora and fauna, were placed on the World Heritage List in 1988 and cover an area of nearly 900,000 hectares of rainforest and tropical vegetation. Primitive plants have remained undisturbed here, from time immemorial, and rare, even previously unidentified species of birds, insects and mammals have emerged to delight biologists and nature lovers.
Tourism is a way of life in the area with the warm tropical climate fostering vigorous outdoor lifestyle. Restaurants, cafes and eateries offer a great variety of foods with the areas superb seafoods and tropical fruits on the menu. Needless to say the locals are friendly and most appreciate of tourists/visitors.
VISIT OUR DISTRICT WEBSITE - MD 201 - Q2.
Visit the site of MD201 Q2 by clicking on the District logo. The logo shows MD 201 - made up of of Australia and Papua New Guinea. The shaded area in black is our District 201-Q2.
The Kangaroo stands for Australia the Crocodile represents the State of Queensland. The Bird of Paradise on the right is the national emblem of Papua New Guinea.
MD201-Q2 is one of the few districts in Lions that cover two countries - makes our work that much more interesting.
Our District this Lionistic year (2003/2004) has as its District Governor Ms. Beryl Ahern. Her slogan is ?Fun and Service go hand in hand? - the intention being to encourage Lions to go back to having some fun whilst working for their community. A visit will bring you up to date on all our activities and plans/projects for the future.
IN APPRECIATION
In recognition of the contribution of the Lions Clubs of Turkey, especially Lion Dr. Enzar Tore, in providing free web page hosting for Lions Clubs everywhere, the Lions Club of EDMONTON proudly displays the flag of Turkey on our site.
Click on the flag to go to the web site of Lion Dr. Enzar's home club - the Lions Club of Canakkale.
As an extension to the Turkish Lions' contribution, the Brisbane Ekibin Lions Club of MD 201 Q1 (Australia) offer assistance to Lions Clubs who want to take advantage of the Turkish Lions offer, but are not familiar with web publishing. They've already set up many sites for Lions Clubs world-wide, using Lionwap.
If your club wants to be on the internet, and would like some help, leave a message in the Ekibin Guest Book by clicking on the image above. This is a FREE SERVICE, so you don't spend a cent for their work. As Lionwap is also FREE, this means you get a web site that you NEVER have to pay for. - Is that a deal or what?
All your Club has to do it have some-one update and maintain your page, which needs not take more than a few minutes each month. The Ekibin Lions will even give you some tips on that!
