The rainforest meets the beach

Cape Tribulation

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April 12th 2007
Steve, Vicky, Ryan and Libby headed off to Sydney for a few days, and we continued north to explore the Daintree region and Cape Tribulation. North of the Daintree river it rained harder and longer than it ever had in Cairns, and our plans to do some more snorkelling on the reef were thwarted by bad weather, but the scenery was magnificent - the rainforest rolling right down onto pristine go ... 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