Whitsundays Passage

Island cruising and the one that got away

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April 3rd 2007
We find ourselves in Airlie Beach, the launch point for trips around the splendid Whitsunday Islands. This is an interesting little town wholly populated by posers and backpackers with a few salty sea dogs thrown in for good measure. It seems that if you are not suntanned to within an inch of skin cancer then you clearly do not work on a boat or you have not been travelling long enough. Both of th ... read more

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Aboriginal settlers arrived on the continent from Southeast Asia about 40,000 years before the first Europeans began exploration in the 17th century. No formal territorial claims were made until 1770, when Capt. James COOK took possession in the name... ... read more