The Beach at Port Douglas

In the Thorn Birds, it was on a beach like this one where Ralph and Meggie finally consummated their love for each other. While the Matlock Island location of the Thorn Birds was fictional, everyone seems to agree that the setting was somewhere off the coast of North Queensland. When the TV mini-series was made in 1983, the Matlock Island scene was filmed in Hawaii because of its similarity in appearance to North Queensland.