width=device-width, initial-scale=1, shrink-to-fit=no" name="viewport"/>Orpheus Island and Townsville travel: How to plan the ultimate tropical Queensland getaway. Instead, I’ve come to experience extreme barefoot luxury at Orpheus Island Lodge, which reopened in July after a six-month, $10-million upgrade. But this was no casual lick of paint; Melbourne firm Dubois (Portsea Hotel, Daintree Ecolodge) was enlisted to give half the lodge’s 14 rooms an overhaul that includes motorised blinds and pergolas to control both.